Twitter seems to have infiltrated every single part of our lives, who’da thunk that we’d be working out how to condense each share-worthy (and some not so share-worthy!) moment of our life into 140 characters? No one could have imagined that the “Tw” prefix would be able to be applied to almost every word in the human vernacular, but somehow it did and we are a generation of Twits, or Twerps, or sometimes Twitterers. Whatever we are, the fabulous crafty [...]

risbane based artist Definatalie just linked me up to DailyDropCap.com, a fabulous new typography blog featuring (as you may have guessed) a different illustrative drop cap each day. From the site: The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere. So far only A and B have [...]

One of the quilting forums I participate in recently had a discussion about fabric buying habits, primarily, how much is enough. Now we all know that you can never have a large enough stash, she (or he!) who dies with the biggest stash wins, but when buying pieces for that stash, how much do you go for? Personally, I feel I tend to err on the “not quite enough” side of the matter  (although my husband would probably disagree), if [...]

Cate Blanchett caused a stir last night when she turned up to the opening of Screen Worlds at ACMI wearing a traditional granny square blanket fashioned into a dress. News.com.au had this to say: OSCAR-winning actor Cate Blanchett has been nick-named Cate Blanket after stepping out in a colourful crochet patchwork dress to open Screen Worlds at ACMI in Melbourne yesterday. The jury is still out on whether the style queen made an unusual red carpet fashion faux pas when [...]

Craftzine flashes back to one of their previous issues and reprints this pattern for a pair of knitted Converse All Stars! Designed by Katie Tesarowski in response to a challenge that she’d knitted everything in her wardrobe… apart from a pair of shoes. All you need is a couple of skeins of yarn and an old pair of chucks to work your way up from. The pattern is for a size 8 shoe (I’m assuming in American shoe sizes) I’m [...]

Christie of Childhood 101 has hit the jackpot again with this absolutely superb homemade cardboard car. The total cost of which was a mere $9.63! Featuring a hot purple paint job, a moving steering wheel and ABS*, it has everything your toddler could need, but much cheaper, much more green and far more imaginative than popping down to target and picking up a Crazy Coupe. Thanks to Leigh of That’sNoice for tipping me off! (*so maybe I went a bit [...]

My eldest son has just discovered “The Owl That Was Afraid Of The Dark” by Jill Tomlinson. It’s a wonderful book, and was one of my favourites growing up, but it has now lead to something of an Owl fixation and he’s asking for a softie. So I have scoured the internet high and low and give you five of my favourite free (try saying that after a few wines!) owl sewing patterns. LollyChops has a very vintage inspired owl [...]