patterns Archive

  • Tatting & Lacemaking: Tatting Patterns

    Tatting & Lacemaking: Tatting Patterns

    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. So, here I’ve compiled all of the ways I’ve found to save on supplies and...

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  • Woodworking: Books & Patterns

    Woodworking: Books & Patterns

    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. You can still stand out and use your imagination while following these tips to save money. If you have a huge...

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  • Cross Stitch: Cross Stitch Patterns

    Cross Stitch: Cross Stitch Patterns

    If you take a few minutes to observe what it around you, you may find some supplies you can use. 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...

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  • Needlepoint & Plastic Canvas: Plastic Canvas Patterns

    Needlepoint & Plastic Canvas: Plastic Canvas Patterns

    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. Try making quotations or maxims out of letters that you’ve cut from magazines in different sizes, colors and fonts....

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  • Quilting: Quilt Patterns

    Quilting: Quilt Patterns

    Should you decide to blow the dust bunnies off your old magazine collection, you have several options for finally getting some use of it. I like to make my own sayings and quotes by snipping various sized letters of the alphabet in different shades and...

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  • Needlepoint & Plastic Canvas: Needlepoint Patterns

    Needlepoint & Plastic Canvas: Needlepoint Patterns

    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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  • Decorative & Tole Painting: Patterns & Instructions

    Decorative & Tole Painting: Patterns & Instructions

    Buying supplies from art supply retail stores can be quite expensive because i know as i am an avid scrap-booker and love creating homemade crafts. So, here I’ve compiled all of the ways I’ve found to save on supplies and still be super unique and...

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  • Weaving: Weaving Books & Patterns

    Weaving: Weaving Books & Patterns

    Now that big stash of periodicals that has been accumulating under your bed-frame can be put to quite a number of uses. Try making quotations or maxims out of letters that you’ve cut from magazines in different sizes, colors and fonts. Check the front and...

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  • Hardanger: Patterns

    Hardanger: Patterns

    I am a serious scrap-booker and enjoy making homemade crafts, so I realize that it can be very expensive to purchase supplies from art supply shop. Originality can still be expressed while economizing on tools and supplies, and I’ve made up a list on how...

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  • Sewing: Sewing Patterns

    Sewing: Sewing Patterns

    Look Around! There are supplies all around you! Masks can be made from paper plates using scissors and markers, a large wall collage can be made from a cut up pizza box or a decoration can be created from dry pasta that has been painted...

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