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1. How to Get More Fiber in your Diet We all need more fiber in our diet. Fiber is conducive to a healthy colon and will promote healthy bowel movements. You can also reduce cholesterol levels. A high fiber diet can also improve blood sugar levels in diabetics.
2. 10 Ways To Naturally Lower Your Blood Sugar Keeping your blood sugar balanced is important to avoid the above dis-eases. Doing it naturally keeps your health vital and strong. Here's how it works: You eat something and the stomach and intestines breaks the food down into glucose. The cells ne...
3. PULL TAB (POP TOP) CROCHET Crochet with pop tops is a very popular craft in my home country, Brazil. I think that most pull tab crochet products you may see online are "pasteurized" and mass-produced. They strive for perfection, while I do it for the pure enjoyment o...
4. Kumihimo Kumihimo is a method of braiding silk threads developed in Japan which is traditionally performed on special wooden stands called Maru Dai and Takadai. The literal translation of kumihimo means the "coming together (kumi)&nbs...
5. Contemporary Art Quilts This lens is a work in progress and is my view of the art quilt movement. It's not meant to encompass everything about contemporary quilting, but the portion of it that interests me. Feel free to contact me, using the link in the sidebar, with comm...
6. Fabric Postcards Fabric postcards are enjoying a contemporary revival. In the past postcards were printed on silk, embroidered and have since become collectors items. Today however there is a new twist as people are making fabric postcards and mailing them to each o...
7. Loom knitting Loom knitting has been around for hundreds of years, but recently there's been a dramatic increase in popularity. Particularly with the release of the Provocraft Knifty Knitters which are well-made and affordable, you can make all kinds of great knit...
8. Creating Art Using "Neocolor II Watersoluble Wax Pastels" The excellent lightfastness, high-quality pigments, and adaptability to numerous techniques make Neocolor II Watersoluble Wax Pastels a creative medium for all artists, including colored pencils artists, fiber artists, illustrator...
9. Cloth Dolls | Art Dolls| Fiber Art Dolls| Making Cloth Dolls and More! Cloth Dolls are taking the world by storm! If you haven't seen what people are doing with a needle and thread and some fabric and stuffing you are in for a real treat! This lens is about Fiber Art Dolls. I have been making and designing Fiber Art Do...
10. Foods With Fiber - They'll Make You Poop, But That's a Good Thing The importance of fiber in the diet Most people don’t recognize how important fiber is to a healthful diet. In fact, fiber is believed to be important to the maintenance and achievement of personal health. One of fiber’s abilities is to pr...
11. Dr. Joel Fuhrman - Eat To Live Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a board certified family physician. He is regarded as one of America's leading nutritional experts. His best selling books include: Eat To Live, Disease-Proof Your Child , Cholesterol Protection for Life , and Eat For Health ...
12. Art To Wear Art To Wear refers to a branch of fashion where art, clothing and creativity are all brought together to make garments that are not only wearable but often one-of-a-kind pieces of fiber art and jewelry. This is one of my own pieces of art to wear, th...
13. Warning Signs of Pre-diabetes This lens deals with the danger signs of pre-diabetes. If you have any of these factors, you may need to see a doctor. There are at present 180 million diabetics in the world and the number is rising fast. Even prediabetes is very dangerous. The warn...
14. Knitwerk - my best links to knitting techniques, supplies and content When I get interested in an advanced knitting technique, I start collecting links and  tutorials. I'll assemble some of my best resources here for easy reference. Currently, I'm trying to solve some problems with short row heels on my knitted soc...
15. How-To: Fabric Collage and ATCs Basic instructions for putting together Fabric Artist Trading Cards Creating Fabric ATCs are not nearly as difficult as they may seem. When I started making them, it was a hard to think on such a small scale, as I am used to working on a much larger...
16. My Experience with Diverticulitis Diverticulitis is when you develop pockets in your colon, in which food becomes trapped, festers and causes an infection. Then it's either a relatively minor thing (but painful) and the trapped food escapes and is eliminated (can you say major cramps...
17. Textile Sculptures I create small textile sculptures using natural and found objects, combining them with knotted waxed linen.
18. Lovely Lutradur Lutradur is a polyester non woven industrial fabric. As well as having lots of uses in industry, though, it is ideal for textile and fiber artists. It is semi transparent, tolerates heat well enough for transfer dyeing, and can be coloured using anyt...
19. How To Make Chenille Fabric A simple method for making your own chenille fabric.
20. Knitting Welcome to the world of knitting.  Whether you are a beginner or advanced knitter, there are websites out there for you.  You can find sites to help you learn to knit, free patterns and even make friends with other knitters out there in the...