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Hello there! I'm Diane and I have two grand passions: making crafts and making media. That's what I write about here, and sometimes, I get all thoughtful about internet culture and creative small businesses. Thanks for stopping by! Would you like some tea?   
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 This is an exciting book! Jennifer Playford has taken the Japanese art of Furoshiki, or fabric-wrapping, and compiled a lovely, simple guide. I’m totally incorporating some of this into my upcoming holiday wrapping. (And, making use of some fabric stash in the process.) Wrapagami offers up 25 ways to use square or rectangular pieces of … Read On! There’s More!  Another thing for your Friday: I did a guest tutorial over at Craft Leftovers today. It’s a fun, simple project – these loopy felt flowers! Go take a look! (Although, Pushkin asked me to add this public service message: “Please don’t use these flowers as cat hats. That’s just wrong.”) Read On! There’s More!  The crafty ebooks keep coming! Interweave Press is now offering them, too. I’ve seen several pop up on their websites – one with quilted bag patterns from Quilting Arts, one on making wire jewelry from Beading Daily, and one on lace knitting patterns from Knitting Daily. The ebooks are free, but you do have to give … Read On! There’s More!  Watching all this Cricut coverage this week, I’ll bet you’re wondering: “Does it cut fabric?” The answer is yes…and no. My Maker Faire cohorts and I have devoted a good part of the week to trial and error on this subject, and concluded that fabric-cutting is possible (and even cool) with the Cricut, but requires … Read On! There’s More!  Here’s some more Cricut-crafting. What exactly have I cut out here? Well, nothing – I used the Cricut to draw. You can get these little marker packs for the Cricut. Pop one in in place of the cutting blade, and you can draw any image that the machine can cut. What’s even cooler: the markers … Read On! There’s More!  Ever since I did the fabric postcard tutorial for CraftStylish last week, I’ve been obsessing over this pendant idea. Seemed to me that if you just shrunk the postcard project a little, it would make a really cool pendant. I like the result! Here’s how I made it: Just as with the postcards, I’m using Friendly … Read On! There’s More!  Happy Friday! A couple cool things happened around the webby-neighborhood today: This week’s tutorial went up at CraftStylish. Since it’s Weddings & Celebrations month over there, I made these cute party favor baskets from stiffened fabric. They’re super easy to make (just need lots of drying time) and are fun table decorations. And then, I was … Read On! There’s More!  I’m a huge fan of 1970′s crafts (you may have noticed), so I was pretty dang excited when the publisher of this book contacted me. The Art of Handmade Flowers revives that time-honored art we used to call “pantyhose flowers” here in the US. This book was originally published in China a couple years back. … Read On! There’s More!  Oh, I love a good open-ended craft book like this! Fabricate, as you can see from the cover, is about manipulating fabric in interesting ways – and then making things from it. There are lots of beautiful projects here, but my brain has been spinning on other ways to use all this glorious sculpted … Read On! There’s More!  Just a few goodies for y’all while I’m flying around meeting deadlines… Here’s my tutorial on CraftStylish this week: I made this flower brooch by cutting up a soda can, and then stitching two metal cut-outs together with beads and craft wire. I like how it came out. And if you ever need, say, nine … Read On! There’s More! |
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