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Card.Paper.Ribbon. Craft Leftovers’ First Ebook!

I am so excited that this great book has made its way into crafterdom! It’s chock full of great projects and techniques for using up leftovers from giving gifts. We love to give gifts, no matter the occasion. We also love receiving them. What’s less lovely is the waste material left […]

patterns & tutorials

ReReleasing to the Wild:: Coffee Sweater!

So the coffee sweater is this month’s Craft Leftovers Monthly Kit. I did a run through with it to make sure it would work with fingering weight yarn. Welllll, it does…. but then while knitting through it I found that just about ever row, except the “knit all” rows, was […]

crochet - knitting - patterns & tutorials

Oopsies and Toofsies

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I love my tréo and he loves his iTouch and we are pretty happy using our little gadgets. It’s getting pretty banged up already in my bag. This is an issue that needs some solving. So here we go, a little tréo pocket! Best of all it only takes about 25g of any sport weight yarn! Hooray for using up scraps and half skeins!

fabric - patterns & tutorials

Dogzilla

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I showed this to my boyfriend and he said “is it a llama?” and I said, “well, I suppose it could be, but I was thinking more like a dog godzilla deal.” I guess, take from it what you will, his species is up to you. I think of him as my crafting guardian and he resides in my too cluttered craft room (aka breakfast nook/my whole apartment).