Crafts category

  • Iron Craft ’16 Challenge #15 – Glue Snowflakes

    For this Iron Craft challenge, we were supposed to use the word “cool” as our prompt. Well, what could be cooler than snowflakes? Over the past couple of years, I have been intrigued by th...
    Aug 02, 2016 11 Comments

  • Road to the State Fair ’16: Finally Done!

    I’ve done it, I have finally finished these friggin’ mittens for the Minnesota State Fair (with days to spare to submit them). Don’t get me wrong, I love the pattern I came up with,...
    Jul 28, 2016 14 Comments

  • Embellished “Greased Lightning” Skating Outfit

    No sooner did I finish the Grease Skating costume, then we started back with the embellishments. This whole time I was concerned that the outfit was good, but it was not a “traditional”...
    Jun 01, 2016 1 Comment

  • Iron Craft ’16 Challenge 8 – Doctor Who Toile

    This was an interesting challenge, we were asked to make a project that contains something unexpected. I’d been wanting to play with adding things to classic toile fabric for awhile so this was ...
    Apr 26, 2016 5 Comments

  • Iron Craft ’16 Challenge #7 – Sharpie Painted Dishes

    For the current Iron Craft challenge, we were to incorporate dots into a project. I bought some Sharpie paint pens awhile back and have been wanting to use them to decorate some cheap porcelain. This ...
    Apr 12, 2016 7 Comments

  • Project: Custom Mitten Blockers

    Recently, I’ve been wishing for mitten blockers. Usually, I just put my mittens between towels to block them, but it really doesn’t shape them as forcefully as I’d like. There are bl...
    Mar 22, 2016 2 Comments

  • Don’t Get Pinched!

    Make sure you don’t get pinched this St. Patrick’s Day by wearing a wee bit of green. Here’s two little pops of green you can whip up in no time with our tutorials. Turn some green ...
    Mar 14, 2016 No Comments

  • Project: Poodle Skirt

    The girls of the Stitch Lab were asked to help make some poodle skirts for a 50’s musical performance at school. Of course we jumped on the chance. We had one as a “master” and we j...
    Mar 07, 2016 No Comments

  • Iron Craft ’16 Challenge #3 – Sweater Girls

    For this challenge our prompt was G is for…. Well, G is for girls, sweater girls! When I was in Iceland in December, my friend Lori found this artist, Heavenly Hosts, who carved these sweet litt...
    Feb 16, 2016 8 Comments

  • Inspiration: Vintage Pattern Art

    I had fun making a vintage pattern cork board. I had a little bit of a hard time working with the tissue paper, so I did some on-line research. I was BLOWN away by all the different project that peo...
    Feb 12, 2016 4 Comments