Craft Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]