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Craft links and resources

Being a craft blogger since July 2004 I consider myself a "veteran" of the craft blog and craft world! I'm one of the creators of back-tack and a contributor to Whipup. Here you'll find craft tutorials and patterns, useful crafty links, crafty supplies and retailers, crafty how-to's and a repository for crafty stuff. You'll find links that "ring my bell" so to speak! :o)

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Crafty Resources

Craftster Community: Craftster Community - Index Online community for hip off-beat DIY craft projects.
Craftzine: Craft is the first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance that is occurring within the world of crafts.
CraftBoom - Marketing an Art & Craft Business Online: How to start and market an art or crafts business online, offline, and everywhere in between!
Etsy :: Your place to buy and sell all things handmade: Etsy ROCKS for handmade!
Getcrafty: Getcrafty, as the hub of the new domesticity, is about combining careers and cooking and crafts and family and going out and staying in and fashion and home decorating...
Knitty!: Knitty is a free web-only knitting magazine with a sense of humor. Fun patterns, fabulous authors. Come and see for yourself!
Meggiecat: Inspiration, images, tools and tips for my creative life
Mix Tape zine: mixtape is a maga(ZINE) about making time for the small things! mixtapezine is a collision of craft, eco-cool and pop culture kitsch!
Ravelry - a knit and crochet community: Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools, and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration.
Sewing Blogs - A big list of Sewing and Craft Blogs from Suzical.co.uk: The Big List of Sewing Blogs.The list includes sewing and craft blogs.
True Up: All Fabric, All the Time
whip up: A handcraft guide in a hectic world.What is handcraft? To fashion or make by hand. A craft or occupation requiring skilled use of the hands.
La plus belle collection de tissus Liberty. Liberty Fabic blog catalogue: The finest collection of tissues Liberty.
This collection will be accessible to all creators and creative clothing and accessories. Individuals and professionals may find on this blog all tissues Liberty they need. This blog will be quickly completed and then maintained over the news or discoveries. For more information, please contact me by email: nicolas@stragier-couture.com and if you want to see the site of a supplier of fabric to know absolutely: http://www.stragier.com

Tutorials & Patterns: Crochet

Stitch Diva: Fresh and Modern - Crochet and Knit Patterns for download. Including Ponchos. Easy Instructions.
roman sock: Little Acorn Pattern: crochet obsessive weirdo with a crush on ancient Rome

Tutorials & Patterns: Embroidery

Posie Gets Cozy: Pleasant Kitchen Dishtowels: Awesome days of the week embroidery patterns for dishtowels.
Be Happy!: "Darumachan", Babushka? Cross Stitched - Tape Measure Cover

Tutorials & Patterns: Knit

Knitting Iris: A-corny: A whole buncha acorn goodness

Tutorials & Patterns: Paper Crafts

Bird Mobile: Make your own bird mobile - awesome pattern.
PaperKraft: Free Papercraft | Anime Papercraft | Video Game Papercraft | Paper Model
Printable Paper: Free Printable Paper in PDF format
painted fish studio » Blog Archive » make a necklace rack: Sweet diy tutorial

Tutorials & Patterns: Quilting & Patchwork

Sunshine's Creations: Tutorial on English Paper Piecing : Grandmother's Flower Garden: English paper piecing

Tutorials: Sewn

the small object - reusable sandwich wrap: Awesome tutorial for a sewn reusable sandwich wrap.
U-handblog: Purse & Bag Tutorials & How Tos: This link will take you to all posts tagged with tutorials.
whip up - Stickin' it to the pincushion: You ready for this? Easy, quick and very satisfying pincushion.
whipup - customised tape measure: Don't like the look of your cheap plastic tape measure? Wanna pretty it up? Here's one solution that you can customise and be creative with.
whipup - oil cloth lunch sack: A how-to for sewing your own oilcloth lunch sack.
Tutorial: slouchy hobo bag (the tinafish way): Tutorial: slouchy hobo bag (the tinafish way) Online community for hip off-beat DIY craft projects.
LucyKate Crafts: Owl egg cosy tutorial: Hey, little egg, why so sad?' (notice, it's a stunt egg, not a real one!),'What's that?, you'd like a little jacket to keep you cosy, well, look no further, how about an owl egg cosy?

Tutorials: shrinky dink

wee wonderfuls - shrinky dink pins tutorial: I got the shrinky urge the other day and made some more shrinky dink pins. I took photos so I could write up a little tutorial.

Tutorials & Patterns: Softie

LucyKate Crafts: Toadstool tutorial: Sweet, sweet toadstool tutorial.
Spool Sewing: Bird Mobile: Create a softie bird mobile or just make birds!

How-To's

Bella Dia: How to Write A Tutorial: Great post on how-to write a how-to!
Meet Me at Mikes: How To Start A Craft Blog: Have you been a-lurking about the blog scene for some time? Are you toying with the idea of becoming a blogger yourself? Perhaps you are not sure if you are good enough, smart enough, creative enough...
Meet Me at Mikes: How To Market Your Craft Blog!: You've set up your blog, it's looking gorgeous, your posting away regularly, tapping on your keyboard...
Meet Me at Mikes: How To Make Your Blog Look Cuter: So you're all set - you've set up a little weblog of your own, you have so much to say, in fact you can't stop posting. So you've got that in hand. But you're not sure how to make it look....
StudioJewel - Journey of a Jeweler: How to Set Up an ETSY shop for dummies (smart dummies!): Are you ready? Are you ready to take your craft to the next level? Are you ready to be excited and discouraged all in the same day? Do you love what you do?

Go Shopping! Fabric

A Little Goodness: LOTS of awesome Japanese fabric, books and notions. Zakka!
Amitie: Australian bricks and mortar and online retailer. Japanese imports, Liberty galore and at excellent prices and more.
Cia's Palette: Cia's Palette sells high-quality, 100% cotton fabric for sewing, quilting, and fabric art.
Reprodepot: A unique selection of fabulous vintage reproduction and retro fabrics plus hard-to-find japanese import fabrics. Also have unusual buttons, beautiful ribbons, retro iron on patches, fantastic sewing patterns, and wonderful home items too!
Sew Mama Sew: Sew Mama Sew carries fabulous modern cotton fabrics from designers such as Denyse Schmidt, Amy Butler and Heather Ross.
Spoonflower: Print custom fabric on-demand: Design and buy custom fabric printed on demand. Create and upload your own textile designs and print only what you need with no minimum order.
Superbuzzy: Japanese fabric & craft supplies! Not JUST awesome Japanese fabric, books and notions and lots of zakka goodness.

Go Shopping! Felt, felt supplies, roving,

Winterwood Toys: 100% Wool felt is a wonder to use. As a toy maker for over ten years, I have loved making toys with this product. Wool felt is used all over the world in Steiner schools for their craftwork
Ornamentea: Felt beads, roving, flowers and more
FeltPro: FELTPRO - 100% WOOL FELT, WOOL FELT DOLL KIT, DOLL MAKING SUPPLIES, LACE, TRIM, FABRIC
Fibre Fusion: AWESOME prepared wool bats called FELBI wool batts.

Fibre Fusion produces and sells supplies for felters, spinners and other textile artists. We specialise in the

Go Shopping! Yarn

Blue Moon Fibre Arts: Stunning sock yarn in a mix of different weights.
the wool shack .:. The Wool Shack Knitting Store of Australia: Stocking a collection of contemporary knitting patterns and a wide variety of quality yarns from Rowan, Jo Sharp, Jaeger, Debbie Bliss, Noro, and more.