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  • Needlecrafts & Yarn: Tatting & Lacemaking

    Needlecrafts & Yarn: Tatting & Lacemaking

    I am well aware that purchasing supplies from local art stores is not cheap, since I love scrap-booking and doing other craft work myself. And so, the list I am presenting here details means that in my experience help craftspeople to purchase materials at more...

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  • Needlecrafts & Yarn: Hardanger

    Needlecrafts & Yarn: Hardanger

    Now that big stash of periodicals that has been accumulating under your bed-frame can be put to quite a number of uses. One of my favorite pastimes is making sayings or quotations by cutting out letters of many different sizes and hues. To get a...

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  • Needlecrafts & Yarn: Crocheting & Knitting

    Needlecrafts & Yarn: Crocheting & Knitting

    I am an avid scrap-booker and love creating homemade crafts, so I know that buying supplies from art supply retail stores can be quite expensive. To save on supplies and still be super unique and creative I’ve compiled all of the ways I’ve found. There are...

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  • Needlecrafts & Yarn: Needlepoint & Plastic Canvas

    Needlecrafts & Yarn: Needlepoint & Plastic Canvas

    There are a lot of ways you can eventually use that big pile of magazines that has been gathering beneath your bed. Cutting out different sized and colored letters and making sayings or quotes is a technique I love. You can cut out letters from...

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  • Needlecrafts & Yarn

    Needlecrafts & Yarn

    If you take a few minutes to observe what it around you, you may find some supplies you can use. Paper Plates can be masks with some scissors and markers, A pizza box can be cut up to make a big wall collage, dry pasta...

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  • Needlecrafts & Yarn: Macramé

    Needlecrafts & Yarn: Macramé

    You have a lot of different options for making use of the growing pile of periodicals that you have been routinely stashing below your mattress. A technique I love is to cut out different sized and colored letters and make sayings or quotes. Try snipping...

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  • Needlecrafts & Yarn: Embroidery

    Needlecrafts & Yarn: Embroidery

    As someone whose hobby is handmade crafts, particularly scrapbooks, I’ve learned firsthand how expensive art supply stores can be. You can save money on supplies, create unique projects by using the same methods which I have collected together. 1. If you have a large collection of...

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  • Needlecrafts & Yarn: Cross Stitch

    Needlecrafts & Yarn: Cross Stitch

    Explore - You’ll find materials everywhere! Everything has a use, and you can make masks with scissors and crayons or markers or use a large pizza box for a collage, decorating it with dried, painted pieces of pasta you glue on. Using your imagination as well...

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  • Needlecrafts & Yarn: Yarn

    Needlecrafts & Yarn: Yarn

    I am an avid scrap-booker and love creating homemade crafts, so I know that buying supplies from art supply retail stores can be quite expensive. To save on supplies and still be super unique and creative I’ve compiled all of the ways I’ve found. • There...

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