We Walk 4Water
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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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Vietnamese Iced Coffee
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Guest post: Chic and easy DIY nail art
Sarah Feldman is a recent graduate of McGill Unive...
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5 keys to clean teeth, plus win an electric toothbrush
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quilting
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Three for Thursday: scrap quilts
Like all sewers (sewists?), I have a big box of fabric scraps. Admit it – you have one, too. And unless you’re a machine with too much free time on your hands, I bet it’s full of stuff you haven’t looked at in years. Or is that just me? I find the scrap box is [...]
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Drawing up my craft bucket list
Thanks for your kind comments on my shamelessly repeated 2012 craft resolutions last week. It’s so nice to know I’m not the only one who didn’t quite hit the mark last year and would like to pretend 2011 never happened. One comment in particular grabbed my attention. Wanda mentioned tackling some items on her knitting [...]
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Greetings from Santa’s workshop
Just popping in for a quick hello in the midst of a crazy week. November is always a time of fevered work around my house. There are the usual work responsibilities (books, books and more books are in the works), plus family birthdays and so on. Then there are the craft responsibilities. And this year [...]
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The joy of giving your work away
Last Friday, I gave away what was probably the coolest quilt I’ve ever worked on. Truth be told, it wasn’t a solo effort, which made it even more fun. I had some very talented help from my fearless fellow blogger Austen, who pitched in her appliqué skills so I wouldn’t die of endless blind-stitching. The [...]
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Inspiration Thursday: Rouge Valley Quilter’s Guild show
Last Sunday was rainy and grey, but there was a lot of sunshine on display at the community centre in Ajax, Ont. That was the day I attended the Rouge Valley Quilter’s Guild biannual quilt show and checked out some gorgeous quilts made by the guild’s members. Make sure you click on the photos in [...]
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Cool tools: bias tape makers
Remember the Christmas craft fair quilt I didn’t finish last year? Well, I’m back in full swing now, determined to finish it for this year’s fair. Each of the 12 blocks is pieced, then a stem and two leaves are appliquéd on the bottom half. I was not looking forward to making all those bias [...]
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Craft Supply Superstar: Masking Tape
There are a number of odd items in my crafting toolkit that I can’t live without. Lately, one of my favourites is masking tape. And I don’t mean fancy washi tape (though I love that, too). I’m talking the cheap green stuff down at your local home-stuff superstore. There are tons of uses for it: [...]
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Important Crafting Lesson from Nestor the Cat
Remember Nestor? You met him a couple months ago when he “helped” me make a toy for his canine brother, Artie. If Nestor wrote himself a personal ad, it would go something like this: Single white/tabby male looking for companionship. Loves liver-flavoured mush, string toys, biting the hand that feeds him and – most of [...]
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Best Laid (Crafty) Plans…
Hi friends, Please tell me I’m not the only one who had big, big plans for this weekend… (fun with sketchbooks and mixed media!) …but got totally sidetracked by a completely different project… …that somehow ate up the better part of your day? My Sunday was all about finishing this tiny, oh-so-soft quilt. What did [...]
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Keeping a Sketchbook Is for Everyone – A Professional Artist Shows You How
Hi friends, I was delighted to get home from work on Monday night and discover that my copy of Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity With Sketchbooks and Mixed Media, by Sarah Ahearn Bellemare, had arrived. I ripped the package open and sat down and read it cover-to-cover (dinner? who needs dinner?) that night. I met Sarah [...]
