Crafters Medley: 20 Neat-O Projects To Make (July 2008)

1. Lucky Ducky Freebie: A cute stuffed felt duckie with a front pouch for a note.
2. Fabric Camera Strap: Make yourself a nice strap for your camera using fabric scraps.
3. How To Decoupage A Notebook: Use Mod Podge and some decorative paper to turn an average notebook into something delightful.
4. Home Made Dish Towels: Sew fabric appliques on flour sacks, use iron on transfers that will put an image right on the towel for you to trace with thread (see some freebie tea towel patterns here: Gingham Flowers, Kitchen Proverbs, Vintage Puppies DOW, Gingham Fruit and Kitten Towels Set).
5. Make A Necklace Rack: A painted board with cup hooks project for hanging & displaying jewelry.
6. Make a Shoe Pouch: This little pouch works just as well as a NIKE + iPod shoe (loop it around the laces on top of your shoes), ultra-quick sew and another perfect fabric scrap project!
7. The Book Apron: Keeps your cookbooks or other how-tos clean! Clear plastic, polyester ribbon and rickrack can be wiped clean of batter with a damp sponge. Also see these tips for organizing recipes.
8. Martha Stewart – Embellish a Cookbook: Attach some grosgrain ribbon and an envelope at the back of a cookbook to keep things a bit organized, cute idea!
9. Apron Recipe Pouch: Scrapbooking project to make an apron pocket for gift recipes.
10. Bucket Apron: The bucket apron is designed to fit around a 5-gallon pail. It allows you to carry tools, seeds, and marking pens with you through the garden, filling the bucket with weeds or harvested herbs or carrying fertilizers to spread in the soil.
11. Tissue Box Cover: The tissue box cover is essentially a single flat shape which folds up the sides of your tissue box, and is fastened at the top.
12. Free Envelope Download: Very pretty pattern! Cut around the envelope shape and fold the four flaps over to create a square envelope with a space on the front for the receivers’ name.
13. How To Make A Fabric Bucket: Made from denim, also see 25 Things To Do With Old Jeans
14. Vintage Sheet Project 1: Workbaskets: If you need a place to place to tuck your embroidery project while relaxing then this is the project for you.
15. Brown Paper Seed Packet Business Cards Tutorial: Upcycle those brown paper grocery bags into some not-so-shiny seed packet business cards.
16. Felt strawberries in a decorated jam jar: Combine two freebie projects to make a sweet craft. The first is a Felt Strawberry Tutorial and the other is a Strawberry Appliqued Jam Jar Cover.
17. Easy Tags – A Tutorial: A quick way to make some tags using your computer and cardstock paper.
18. Crochet Tea Towel Edging Tutorial: More tea towel goodness, here’s a tutorial for adding crochet edging. Also see Flour Sack Tea Towel Tips.
19. Baby Taggy Ribbon Blanket: A beginner level sewing tutorial for making a super-sweet baby blanket, taggy style. Also see Tipnut’s Picks: 50 Free Projects For Baby.
20. Martha Stewart – Docking Station: Make a simple docking station with cloth covered boxes to keep all your cordless gadgets neat, tidy & out of sight while charging.

Crafty Tips:

• Make Pincushions To Sharpen Pins & Needles: Shows how to make your pincushions not only hold pins & needles, but sharpen them too.
• Crochet Stitch Marking Trick: Something that really works, won’t fall off, and takes almost zero effort to place or remove.
• How to Weave on a Cardboard Loom: You don’t need a lot of expensive equipment to take up weaving, here’s how to build a simple loom on a piece of cardboard.
• How To Curl Fabric Ribbon: Bake your own curly ribbons, who knew?

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