As crafters, we love to cut stuff up, nothing is safe from the blade in my house. My favourite craft, quilting, is basically cutting up bits of fabric, into even smaller bits of fabric, and then sewing them all back together again, which seems totally logical at the time, but when you write it down like that you have to wonder if we should all really be carted away and sectioned. I’ve been getting progressively more and more fed up [...]

Stephanie Lynn from Under The Table And Dreaming has a guest post on Brown Paper Packages detailing how to make VERY cute bowls from crocheted doilys, I’ve seen these done with starch before, but never with white glue (PVA/school glue) and I think they look awesome, a really cute way to store those little bits and pieces that you need on your desk. My local Salvos has a box that is constantly being topped up with new doilys, generally priced [...]

Design*Sponge featured a tutorial for this excellent calendar/pen cup as part of their DIY Wednesdays series. For just a couple of dollars spent on card you can have a perpetual calendar to keep on your desk – cute and practical! See the full tutorial and download the files to print here.

Remember before I started jet-setting around NSW I promised a post from one of my favourite crafty bloggers, Ethan? Well the wait is finally over, a good week later than when I meant to get it up, but my thanks to Ethan for being so patient. Please say hello, check out his blog and give a warm welcome to Ethan on his first guest post at CraftBlog. Today I will be sharing a quick tutorial of how I fold my [...]

I currently have an ongoing project of organising my sewing room, it’s slow progress, very slow progress. I can’t do it whilst my son is awake as he can destroy things faster than I can tidy them, and I can’t do it whilst he’s asleep as a butterfly flapping its wings seems to wake him up, let alone me crashing and banging in the room next door to his. It also doesn’t help that everytime I make something new I [...]

This week’s tut is fairly simplistic, I have the headache to end all headaches so I haven’t been able to put as much time into it as I would normally, as far as I’m aware I haven’t missed any massive steps, but let me know if there’s something that I’ve let slip As mentioned previously I’ve been working on my craft room in my spare time, I’ve been meaning to make an inspiration board for ages, but I’ve been waiting [...]