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CRAFT Newsletter for December 8, 2006
Soft Tree Pattern, Sassy Snow Bowls, Make a Scrap Fabric Ornament, Star Wars Droidel Dreidel and TIE Fighter Ornament, Knit Tech Socks, Make Silhouette Necklaces, Holiday Projects Roundup by West Coast Crafty, Applique Tutorial, HOW TO: Crochet a Five Petal Flower, and HOW TO: Make Fabric Flowers
Hi Crafters,
Wow, can you believe it's already December and time for the holidays? Seems like this whole year has been breezin' on by. I've collected some fun holiday projects that are perfect for holiday decor, gifts you can make, and simple crafty embellishments you can add to just about anything!
Please keep sending us the holiday projects you are working on by submitting them to the blog, posting to our new forums, or by emailing me.
Cheers,
Natalie Zee Drieu
Associate Editor, CRAFT
crafzine.com
nat@craftzine.com
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From the CRAFT Blog
Holiday Project: Soft Tree Pattern
Stephanie Barnes of little birds handmade has a cute soft trees pattern PDF, you can download from her site. I love the modern style of her tree designs. Link.
Holiday Project: Sassy Snow Bowls
Crafty Chica Kathy Cano Murillo has a great project for your upcoming holiday cocktail parties. You can make your serving dishes look like giant snowballs! Link.
Related:
See Crafty Chica's archive of past holiday projects. - Link.
Holiday Project: Make a Scrap Fabric Ornament
Melissa has added scrap fabric ornament to the CRAFT flickr pool. The full tutorial is included and easy to make. Link.
Holiday Projects: Star Wars Droidel Dreidel and TIE Fighter Ornament
From the Star Wars Kids Craft archives here are more fun holiday projects you can make.
Holiday Project: Knit Tech Socks
We are all nerds at heart so why shouldn't our socks reflect that? These knit patterns created by Alison Hansel for Magknits shows two cool patterns - Atari Breakout and the Apple logo. A great gift to make this holiday season for the techie in your life, even if that's yourself! Link.
HOW TO - Make silhouette necklaces
Abigail Percy has a great jewelry tutorial on Whip Up on how to make silhouette necklaces. This season animal shapes are all over the place and Abigal's deer is a cute choice. You can also use the Fitzpattern bird stencils we've provided in a previous CRAFT Pattern podcast to create your necklace. Link.
Holiday Projects: Roundup by West Coast Crafty
Susan Beal of West Coast Crafty has rounded up some of the cool projects for the holidays including the free elf stitchette pattern by Hillary Lang (left) and the mirror garland by Crafty Chica's Kathy Cano Murillo. Lots and lost more listed on her post including good gift ideas. She even gives CRAFT some props - Merci! Link.
Applique tutorial
Sally Shim of Shim + Sons brings us the most beautiful, inspirational craft projects on her blog. Here's her applique tutorial where she shows you how you can take plain baby onesies or t-shirts and add creative applique embellishments. Link.
HOW TO - Crochet a five petal flower
Applehead has a complete tutorial on how to crochet a basic five petal flower. This is a great pictoral step-by-step reference for those that don't crochet as often and sometimes get stuck. Crochet flowers are the perfect embellishments for your projects like a hat, bag, or scarf! Link.
HOW TO - Make fabric flowers
Blair Stocker of Wise Craft has another perfect embellishing flower you can make, this one out of fabric. Blair gives you the full photo-tutorial as well as a flower template you can download. These cute fabric flowers can adorn anything you make and would even look great on their own as brooches. A nice quick holiday gift to make! Thanks Lil! Link.
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