We Walk 4Water
Last year, Spencer West climbed Mount Kilimanjaro ...
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Crafter Q+A: Maxine Chan of Tulle Box Designs
Name: Maxine Chan Location: Vancouver, B.C. Title:...
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How a creative community attracts savvy shoppers and diners
A creative community bands together to offer uniqu...
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Madeleines for Mother's Day
To celebrate Mother’s Day this year, go beyo...
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The Great Gatsby style inspiration
I’ll admit it, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s T...
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5 keys to clean teeth, plus win an electric toothbrush
**UPDATE: This contest is now closed. What’s...
Knitting and Crochet
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Feature craft: Easy to knit toy animals for kids
‘Tis the season of baby showers. It seems that everyone I know has a bun in the oven and is looking to celebrate. Instead of buying a pre-made gift off a registry, some of the cutest gifts I’ve seen involve a home-made toy. I’ve rounded up some of my favourite toys from Canadianliving.com. And we’ve got patterns [...]
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Giveaway winner: ISLAND by Jane Richmond
Hi friends, Just popping in with the winner of last week’s giveaway. One lucky reader will soon be the proud owner of a copy of Jane Richmond’s new book, Island. Austen can vouch for how great this book is – she has been happily wearing her Renfrew for almost a week now (she cast off [...]
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Book review + giveaway: ISLAND by Jane Richmond
I first met Jane Richmond last year, when I was setting up the KAL with her Classic Raglan pattern. She pairs classic style with a modern sensibility, and I’ve been delighted to see her work appear in publications such as Knitty and November Knits. Today I’m excited to be a stop on the blog tour [...]
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On the newsstand: Heart Motif Mitts
One of my resolutions for 2013 is to spend a bit more blog space on talking about the crafts that we’ve got in the magazine, and I’m excited to begin with our February issue. In addition to our supercute Valentine’s Day crafts, this month we’ve also got a pattern for these knitted Heart Motif Mitts [...]
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Links for your crafty me time
Now that we’ve finished all of our crafting for others, we’ve got a little time for ourselves. Here’s what we’re reading, looking at, being inspired by and planning to make in these fun days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. We hope you also get a chance to do something selfishly crafty (or at least [...]
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Knit Accessories winner
Just thought I’d pop in to announce the winner of Kate Atherley‘s book, Knit Accessories. As usual, I let the Random Integer Generator do the hard work of picking a winner from those who entered before the deadline. It chose: Lucky number 36 was Celia, who liked the big blue cowl on the cover of [...]
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Surprise giveaway: Knit Accessories by Kate Atherley
Well, friends, it looks like Christmas has come early, because I’ve got a lovely treat for the knitters among you. The incredibly knowledgeable, talented Kate Atherley – you might know her blog, or maybe her first book, or recognize her name from the Knitty masthead, or maybe you made her fabulous Bigger on the Inside [...]
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Stash buster: 5 tiny hat ornaments for your Christmas tree
You know when you have a really good idea for a craft? I mean, a really, really good idea? Something you think is so brilliant you don’t tell anyone because you know that, someday, someone will want you to reveal it to the world? I have those all the time. Then I Google them and realize that approximately [...]
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Must-knit Monday
Have you ever noticed that crafting inspiration comes in waves? You’ll be cruising along happily with whatever work-in-progress you’ve got, and then – BOOM – you want to start 15 new projects, all at once. It happened to me last week. Never mind that my to-knit list currently looks like this: (That’s two sweaters, one [...]
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Review: Video workshops at Creativebug
I’m declaring a trend: crafting video sites. I was recently invited by Creativebug to check out their video workshops, and I have to say I love the idea. Most of these sites work on a subscription basis; for a monthly fee, you have unlimited access to streaming videos. It’s like taking a class, but you’re [...]
