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I've never learned how to crochet, but often, when I see someone's products, I wished that I knew how!

Does anyone have any good "crochet for dummies" type books (or IS there a Crochet for Dummies book?) lol

Thanks for your help everyone! :)

Anyone ever use this? I know it's for kids, but it's on sale for 10 bucks at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Style-Six-00447-Silk-Screener/dp/B0024IABXM/ref=br_lf_m_1000464001_1_11_ttl?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=toys-and-games&pf_rd_p=504262851&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1000464001&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=080TSYC26BBDZ6KAHDVT

Hi everyone! I am on the hunt for great fashion design, patternmaking, tailoring, etc type links to add to the Fashion Students Online link directory. I really hope to build this directory into a fabulous resource. There are some great link resource sites already, I know, such as costume.org but they do not cover the topics we hope to cover (schools, manufacturers, freelancers, tutorials, suppliers, and more).

If you have only a few links that you would like to submit you can do so at this address:
http://www.fashionstudentsonline.com/submit-a-link

If however you have ten or more links to submit we have just set up a new multi-link submission page:
http://www.fashionstudentsonline.com/multiple-links

We even accept exported favourites / bookmark files from your browser!
Just export your bookmarks out of your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc) and send the file to us and we will do the sorting and adding. It couldn't be easier!

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Thank you!

Hey all. Anyone got ideas for cheap ornaments? I am thinking some paper ones could be cool. I don't have a lot of money to spend this year so I will be crafting for the tree. I also really want to do popcorn strands, but I know the dogs will eat them so any idea with food is out. Thanks!

I've been being crafty lately and decided to look for a crafting community. Found it!

I've been making button ornaments lately and that is really the only thing I have photographed. So ( here you go )

Hi everyone :) Just joined up and am having a fantastic time looking through all the posts. I'm bowled over with the amount of talent in this community.

I make Magnetic Hair Clips, basically they can attach to any metal clip or metal headband! It makes them interchangeable, some of my clients have used them as pins!

And now for pictures!!!

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Sorry for all the pictures!!! ^.^

I am interested in making pendants similar to this here:




Is ModPodge the appropriate thing to use to attach the paper to the wood?

Thanks!

EDIT: image removed, but I'm looking to attach a paper design to a thin piece of wood.

I had a baby at the start of October, so while he has been sleeping on me I have been trying to get together some photograph I have taken to give as gifts. These four are ones I really like.

( 4 photos @ 800px under cut )

It's winter again, which means it's time for more Fannish Snowflakes.

Folded paper + scissors.




( Bigger pic at my LJ )

The wild wreath I posted previously was for my dull cubicle at work. The one below is for my home. :)



Thanks for letting me share. Sorry it's just a cruddy camera phone picture.

I'm not in a festive mood at all but I can't seem to stop making ornaments. (Even though I'm not putting up a tree this year.) Anyone want some ornaments? Lol.








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I bought a load of cards on sale after the holidays last year and just found them in my stash. Add a hole punch and a bit of scrap yarn and you've got cool ornaments. :)

Hi everyone!

I'm getting really jealous of seeing all these cute embroidered things on this community, and in 'Bust', and pretty much everywhere I look online. Especially since my mom recently framed a bunch of my grandmother's embroidery from the Great Depression, and that lady could sew like no other.

I want to start; where do I go? Any books? Would a class be better than self-teaching? I'm also itching to start a new hobby as I'm finishing graduate school this term, and am looking forward to a lot more free time!

I have been practicing a little embroidery. This is a (slightly modified) Richard Brautigan quote. (Not modified on purpose..) I think that embroidered handwriting is just so sweet. I'll have to gather more quotes to do this with.

Is there a no-sew (apart from hemming etc) way of making a half or three quarter circle skirt, with no side or back seams? I just can't get my head around how you might be able to do it by folding fabric etc.

Any tutorials or tips would be much appreciated!

...but a few more beetles have crawled out of the woodwork in the last few weeks. One inspired by counting too many cells as part of my thesis and one by a thundering toothache.



The other beetly family members are here. I've bought some mount board and a mount-cutter to start matting them, but I am a bit stumped about how to do it. Any tips?

For a very long time I had the desire to paint a gheisha. In my childhood I had visited the office of a doctor and he had a painting with a beautiful gheisha. It was so graceful and serene that I never forgot it. Finally this Saturday and Sunday I had done it. I hope you like it.

My friends and I just got back from seeing John Barrowman in La Cage Aux Folles in London. We decided the scrapbook should be kind of vintage French Postcard on the front but vibrant on the inside. This is what we came up with:

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Have any of you guys done DIY basketball jersey lettering and have it come out looking clean? Someone wants me to make a dress out of that nylon or polyester athletic mesh and have some jersey-style lettering. I'm going to guess paint/ink is probably not the best option, and all the pre-made letters I've seen are either not the right color combination, size, style, etc. Think I can get away with using a different color mesh, fusing it to the dress, and doing a quasi satin-stitch around the edges? I have no idea how fusing would react with two layers of synthetic that have those tiny holes. Any input?