Archive Category: 'Crafts'

• Free Knitted Rag Bath Mat Pattern: Today’s feature is from CocoKnits with instructions for how to make a Knitted Rag Bath Mat. This is a great project to repurpose some old bedsheets! Size Approximately 18″ wide and desired length. The sample is 36” long for a bathtub, it can be shorter for a smaller shower. Materials Yarn Sample used two pre-washed twin size sheets ripped into [...]
• How To Make Homemade Soap: Today’s feature tip is from MillerSoap with Miller’s Homemade Soap Page. If you ever wanted to learn how to make your own soap–this is the place for you! I have been making our soap for over 30 years and in the beginning we got some of the materials from raising our own beef. Since getting [...]
• Repurposing Biscuit Tins – Organizing Ideas & Craft Projects: It seems this time of year I’m swimming in biscuit tins, but I’m not complaining since they’re such great organizing tools! Plus the crafts you can make with them are gorgeous and not that difficult to manage–you can go as simple or as elaborate as you like. These tins are also known as cookie tins or [...]
• Knitting Needle Roll Pattern: Today’s feature is from Tostetoes.com with a free pattern for a Knitting Needle Roll. This one’s quite nice, it has three different sized pocket rows to include all kinds of knitting tools and notions. Then roll it up and carry it around for easy convenience. Fabrics Needed: Outside Fabric: ½ Yard Lining Fabric: ½ Yard Inside Pockets and upper guard: [...]
• Vintage Crochet Potholders Pattern – Free Download: Do you love kitschy kitchen items? Retro kitchen accessories? Then you’ll love this crochet pattern for potholders, I believe it’s from the 1940s (1944). They were very creative with crochet designs back in the day . At first I thought it was a potholder set depicting a sugar bowl and creamer, but I’m leaning more [...]
• How To Make A Denim Pocket Potholder: Today’s feature tip is another good one from My Recycled Bags with Recycled Denim Potholder… Old recycled denim makes great potholders. All you need is an old pair of jeans, some cotton for padding and I added a piece of insul-bright. Insul-bright is an inexpensive reflective material that is designed for providing padding for potholders, oven [...]
• Complete Embroidery Pattern Series – Gingham Fruit: Here’s a handy list of all the patterns for the Gingham Fruit series all on one page. Nice and neat for your bookmarks and sharing with friends. You’ll find the instructions and details for this series on the first pattern (Monday’s Pears), found here. Gingham Fruit Vintage Embroidery Pattern Series Monday Pears Tuesday Cherries Wednesday Apples Thursday Strawberries Friday Grapes Saturday Peaches Sunday Plums Tips [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Sunday: Here is this week’s free vintage cross stitch & embroidery pattern – Gingham Sunday Plums. This is the last pattern in the series and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. This will be the last free pattern set for the year, but hang on because I’ll start a new free series in [...]
• Tote Bag Pattern – Only 1 Yard, 1 Hour!: Today’s feature is from Joan at Lazy Girl Designs with Make Our 1 Yard, 1 Hour Free Tote Bag Pattern For Last Minute Holiday Gift Bags: Make this quick and simple tote bag in about an hour from one yard of fabric. It’s perfect for a gift bag or as you carry goodies with you on [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Saturday: Here is this week’s free vintage cross stitch & embroidery pattern – Gingham Saturday Peaches. I think, lol. These could also be nectarines, but I’ll go with peaches. You can download the pattern here: Saturday’s Gingham Peaches. Printing tips: Uncheck your printer’s equivalent to “Print to Page” and “Maintain Aspect Ratio” so that the pattern stays true [...]
• Homemade Reuseable Tea Bags: Today’s feature is from Craft Leftovers with instructions and pattern for a reusable tea bag: Pinch of Tea! This week’s pattern is a nice little tea bag that you can reuse. I just love tea…. love it. But I’m not too fond of tea bags. They just seem so wasteful to me. Unfortunately, as on [...]
• Pillowcase Tote – Sewing Tutorial: Today’s feature is from Creative Kismet with a fabulous Pillowcase Tote Tutorial: Many of you requested a tutorial for my pillowcase grocery bags. They are super easy and quick to make, involving only straight line sewing. The straps actually take a bit more time than the bag itself, but still easy enough. Hopefully these instructions are easy [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Friday: The free pattern this week for the vintage gingham fruit series is Friday’s Grapes. It’s a lovely design with a full grape bunch including a bit of leaves and vine. You can download your free copy here: Gingham Pattern – Friday Grape Bunch. If you missed it, the beginning of this pattern download set started here: Gingham [...]
• Homemade Scrubbies Pattern: Today’s feature is from the Canadian Crafter – Kansas A for a tutorial on Homemade Scrubbies: This scrubby is really scratchy but because the crino is 100% nylon it won’t scratch Teflon® or even my ceran top stove! I used crino purchased from the fabric department at Wal-Mart and plastic canvas yarn bought at Michaels. I haven’t tried [...]
• Concrete Lightbulb Project – Cool Desktop Item: Today’s feature is from Finkbuilt with a project for how to make a Concrete Lightbulb: The concrete bulbs are particularly popular among visitors to my cubicle at the office. When people pick one of these things up off my desk, they invariably finger it for a second while doing a few eyebrow exercises before finally letting out [...]
• Applique Pillows Project How To: Today’s feature is from Design*Sponge with a project for Appliqué Pillows. If you’re having a hard time coming up with a homemade gift idea for a teenager, I think this just might fit the bill–and it’s a cheap & easy project too! Supplies Needed: 1 1/2 yards linen Four 8″ x 10″ pieces of different colored wool felt [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Thursday: This week’s free pattern is a cute set of Gingham Strawberries. I love the shape of the strawberries and the simple design. You can download the pattern here: Gingham Pattern – Thursday Strawberries. If you’re new to Tipnut and the free embroidery series, you’ll find the beginning of this set here (we started with Monday): Gingham Fruit [...]
• How To Make Photo Snow Globes: Today’s feature is from Photojojo with a nice project for Photo Snow Globes. Very basic supplies needed and the snow globes are surprisingly easy to make: Items Needed: Water Bottle or empty mason jar Two photos (or 1 transparency) Clear packing tape, the wider the better. Scissors Goo Gone Glitter & sparkles Clear (light) Corn Syrup Good old-fashioned Water If you don’t have any Goo [...]
• 51 Free Apron Patterns You Can Make: This is a large list of patterns I’ve collected from around the net, all kinds of styles and types included. If you love aprons, you’re gonna love this list! These are organized as neatly as I could manage, however some patterns fit well in more than one section. I decided to list them in a single [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Wednesday: Here’s this week’s free vintage cross stitch & embroidery pattern, it’s Gingham Apples (and they’re very sweet!). You can download the pattern here: Gingham Wednesday Apples. If you’re new to Tipnut, you’ll find the beginning of this set here (we started with Monday): Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery. Printing tips reminder: Uncheck your printer’s equivalent to “Print [...]
• Unique Knitting Basket How-To: Today’s feature is from Martha Stewart with a unique (and lovely!) Knitting Basket How-To: This pliable 10-inch-tall knitting basket was made from a snowy Aran sweater. Its sides came from the body of the sweater; its base was cut from the sleeves. If you have some favorite sweaters on hand that are past their prime (or outgrown), [...]
• Patchwork Sewing Basket Tutorial: Today’s feature is from Little Thing with Patchwork Sewing Basket Tutorial: Materials and tools: sewing machine, scraps of fabric, light weight batting, leather cord (or ribbon or jute), trim like rick-rack or lace, one wooden button (plastic or metal if you like too), a piece of heavy cardboard (big enough to make the top of the [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Tuesday: Here’s this week’s free vintage cross stitch & embroidery pattern – Tuesday Cherries. Download the file here: Tuesday’s Gingham Cherries. There’s a fold line running through the cherries that is not part of the pattern, just in case you wondered. There should just be the three solid lines as part of the pattern. You’ll find the details [...]
• Recycle Project – Magazine Bowl: Today’s feature is from A Little Hut with a Recycle Project – Magazine Bowl: The beauty of this project is that you can make the bowl any size you’d like by changing the width of the base and by stopping at any point during the process of building the sides. I’m thinking that this bowl will [...]
• Button Sewing Tips: If you’re in the habit of sewing buttons on too tightly, try laying a pin across the top of the button before sewing it on. Once the button has been secured and you’ve knotted and cut the thread, remove the pin from underneath the thread. Now the button has a little give to it. Sew a [...]