Needle Arts & Crafts Archive

  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Latch Hooked Rugs

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Latch Hooked Rugs

    Explore - You’ll find materials everywhere! With scissors and markers, a pizza box can be cut up to make a big wall collage, dry pasta can be painted and glued on as a decoration paper plates can be masks. When you’re crafting, look around the house...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Hardanger

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Hardanger

    Be observant with your surroundings and you will find a vast assortment of materials. You can showcase your creativity by making masks out of paper plates, embellishing them with markers and cutting eye holes with scissors. Perhaps you could transform an old pizza box,...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Hand Crocheted Doilies

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Hand Crocheted Doilies

    Be observant with your surroundings and you will find a vast assortment of materials. You can showcase your creativity by making masks out of paper plates, embellishing them with markers and cutting eye holes with scissors. Perhaps you could transform an old pizza box,...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Woven, Rag & Braided Rugs

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Woven, Rag & Braided Rugs

    If you have a large collection of periodicals that have been piling up around your house, there are a variety of different ways to put them to good use. I really enjoy the method of cutting out various colors and sizes of letters to make...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Granny Squares

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Granny Squares

    I am really into scrap-booking and have the spend a lot of my time making handmade craft items, so I am quite aware of the high prices that the retail art supply stores can charge for supplies. Therefore, I’ll give here a list of my...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Scarves, Hats & Accessories

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Scarves, Hats & Accessories

    You probably have a pile of magazines accumulating somewhere in the house, and now there are lots of ways you can make some use of them. A technique I love is to cut out different sized and colored letters and make sayings or quotes. Check...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Tatting & Lace

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Tatting & Lace

    If you have a huge magazine stack collecting under the bed, there are many ways to finally get some use out of it. Try making quotations or maxims out of letters that you’ve cut from magazines in different sizes, colors and fonts. A simple way...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Needlepoint

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Needlepoint

    Not only am I an avid scrap-booker, but I also love creating homemade crafts. I know first-hand that purchasing supplies from art supply retail stores can get very expensive. To save on supplies and still be super unique and creative, here I have compiled...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Dishcloths & Potholders

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Dishcloths & Potholders

    I am always making homemade crafts and I know that buying all of your supplies from an art supply store can be expensive. So, now I have put together every way I discovered to spend less money for supplies and still make something special and...

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  • Needle Arts & Crafts: Hand Hooked Rugs

    Needle Arts & Crafts: Hand Hooked Rugs

    You probably have a pile of magazines accumulating somewhere in the house, and now there are lots of ways you can make some use of them. One of my favorite pastimes is making sayings or quotations by cutting out letters of many different sizes and...

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