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Lots of Free Crochet Afghan Patterns … Perfect for Scrapghans. As shown clockwise from top to center: Granny Hexagons, Vintage Wobble Afghan, Happy Colours Blanket, Classic Granny Square Afghan, Blackberry Salad Striped Baby Blanket, Granny Square Sampler, Groovy-ghan, Modern Mitered Granny Square.

Lots of Free Crochet Afghan Patterns … Perfect for Scrapghans

Our ongoing Scrapghan crochet along is underway with lots of beautiful scrappy projects. I love seeing all the different colors and designs! If you haven’t started your own yet, I have rounded up lots of crochet afghan patterns that are perfect for scrapghans. I am sure you will find something to inspire you here. All the Techniques you need to bead. 25 Recycled Tin Can Crafts and Projects. Happy Earth Day everyone!

25 Recycled Tin Can Crafts and Projects

In honour of this special day I've rounded up 25 recycled tin can crafts and projects. Recycle old candles and make ice candles. Snowflake Earrings. (copyright 2013 Deborah Roberti) Materials: • About 2 yards of 6 lb.

Snowflake Earrings

Gallery. Bead Woven Medallion Earrings. I have just finished writing my 5th jewelry making tutorial.

Bead Woven Medallion Earrings

This one was a little tricky for me, as it was my first with bead weaving and since I have been self taught all of the techniques I use, I found that I didn’t know some of the technical names for certain things, other than the brick stitch. The use of arrows in photos really helped in describing which way to weave your needle at certain points. This tutorial definitely took me longer to write than any of my wire wrapping tutorials for sure!

It is now available for sale here in my Etsy shop. DIY Felt Flower. Making the woodland felt puppets a few weeks ago reminded me to how much I love working with felt.

DIY Felt Flower

Carnations_450.jpg (Obrázok JPEG, 450×450 bodov) Felt Dahlia Flowers. Dahlia flowers are so gorgeous.

Felt Dahlia Flowers

Make a Folded Felt Gift Box. Curbly-Original So a few months ago I spotted these DARLING felt, flatpack breadbaskets from Teroforma, and I thought, "Dude, you can totally make that.

Make a Folded Felt Gift Box

" My idea, however, was not a breadbasket, but a little gift basket. So I grabbed paper and pencil and came up with plan. First, the supplies: Paper Pyramid Gift Boxes. Check out my new site, Let's Wrap Stuff.

Paper Pyramid Gift Boxes

It's dedicated to all things related to gift wrap. Lil Blue Boo. 50 DIY Jewelry Tutorials for Mother's DayFlamingo Toes. You Might Also Like: Published In: Beverly McCullough is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

50 DIY Jewelry Tutorials for Mother's DayFlamingo Toes

Tutorials. Spring is definitely here in the UK and flowers are popping up all over so today I thought I'd share a tutorial for these quick and easy flower tendril earrings.

Tutorials

To make these you will need two 8" lengths of 19/20 gauge wire, 2 flower beads or similar flat disc beads with reasonably small holes and 1 pair of ear wires. You'll also need a hand torch, wire cutters, round and needle nose pliers, looping pliers or other round tool and a file. Please excuse the state of my hands in these photos - much neglected at the best of times and not helped by my thumb having a mishap with a door hinge at the weekend! Step 1 Using the hand torch ball up the ends of the wires so that they won't pass through the holes in the beads.

{DIY} Fishtail Bracelet - Typical House Cat. These DIY fishtail bracelets were a product of my impatience. I ordered a bunch of Chinese knotting cord to make this necklace and the cord arrived a couple of days before the rest of the supplies I needed. I immediately became obsessed with it, making all sort of macramé and friendship bracelets. If you’ve been following DIY blogs then you’ve seen plenty of macramé lately but hopefully, this is the first time you are seeing the fishtail or herringbone weave.

Leather and pearls Hammered sterling silver lariat par iseadesigns. Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more. Some of the best things, in my opinion, are underrated. Case in point: the epic, jaw-droppingly over-the-top camp classic Flashdance. When this precursor to all the dance movies of recent years hit the big screen in 1983, it was almost universally panned by critics, written off as brainless, overly-glitzy Hollywood dreck. The film, set in a rugged-looking Pittsburgh, follows a spunky young woman named Alex who—between working in a dingy steel mill by day and dancing at a seedy cabaret by night—has big dreams of becoming an acclaimed ballet dancer.

Despite the film’s admittedly hackneyed plot, it packs enough punch, both visually and musically (you can’t beat those dance numbers!) To make up for it. Make a Modern Paper Mache Lamp. Remember back in the day when you made those paper mache masks and impressed all your elementary school friends? Well, paper mache is growing up (in a big way) with today's DIY lamp idea. I don't remember there being so many layers to this technique, but it looks easy enough and Jaime from Prudent Baby will walk you through the entire step-by-step with loads of photographs. Learn how to make your own modern lamp, right here on Prudent Baby. Náušnice - inspirated by orsay. 12. května 2012 v 17:05 | Any :) | Taštička bronzovo-hnedá by IrenaK - SAShE.sk - Handmade Náušnice.