Crafting with flea market fabrics

Crafting with flea market fabrics

Flea market bargain hunting is one of the fastest growing leisure time activities. But the real challenge is what to do with your bounty after you bring it home. CRAFTING WITH FLEA MARKET FABRICS is a fun and practical guide to sewing, cutting, and gluing your bargain acquisitions into decorative accessories, toys, ornaments, and gifts. 195 color photos and illustrations.

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5 Stars If You Love Vintage Linens, You Will Love This Book
Crafting with Flea Market Fabrics is one of the better of its type. Each project comes with easy to follow instructions and lovely pictures. Now we can recycle those old scarves, tableclothes, and bedspreads to provide decor for a lovelier home and play-pretties for our precious little ones. I am here to warn you, though. Once you have gone through your own linens, you will be rummaging through your friends, relatives, garage sales, and flea markets!

5 Stars This is a great book!
This is THE book to have if you enjoy working with vintage materials. It’s full of directions for making many country style items for gifts or just to enjoy yourself. If you have only one pillow case, or a dresser scarf with a unremovable stain right in the center, but with lovely embroidery on the ends, you’ll find ideas for making beautiful items from the usable parts. Lots of color pictures, and directions are easy to follow.

5 Stars Best of the Bunch
I bought 7 books on crafting with vintage fabrics. This one was by far the best. Well written and wonderful photos. Just enough instructions. Inovative ideas and useful guides.

5 Stars Crafting With Flea Market Fabrics
Wonderful, unusual, & simple ideas from things many of us already have around the house. Lots of good ideas for turning damaged linens into treasured items. Many good projects for inherited linens, as well

5 Stars The perfect DIY book for compulsive flea market shoppers.
There’s something for everyone here: from what to do with beautiful antique hankerchiefs to decorative items to baby gifts, etc. The instructions are clear and concise, and the author leaves no stone–or flea market find–unturned. Harding really knows her stuff!

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Mighty Bright XtraFlex2 Book Light with Adaptor Black

Mighty Bright XtraFlex2 Book Light with Adaptor Black

Our Most Popular Light! Two Super LED lights in one head gives you the lighting power of 6 normal LED’s. Brilliant light output! You have the option of using one or two of the Super LED lights with just a simple tap to our proprietary sensor switch. The flexible neck allows you to position your lighting anywhere you want it.

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Craft in America

Craft in America

This program explores the history and significance of the craft movement in the United States and its impact on the nation’s cultural heritage. “Memory” focuses on the historical relevance of craft through the eyes of several contemporary pioneers in the field. “Landscape” examines the interdependent relationship of craft artists to their media and the natural world.

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5 Stars Magical and inspiring
I love this video. I have seen the series on PBS and I have watched the DVD. I continue to draw inspiration from the artists and the rich history of craft in America.

If your creative batteries are running low or if you want to see examples of how people live/think differently through their art, you should watch this DVD.

There are so many talented, dedicated artists in this series, and I love how idiosyncratic and unconventional they are. They live outside the mainstream and yet their work is such a part of who were are as Americans. Potter David Gurney, Jewelry maker Kit Carson and so many others will leave you wanting more out of the way you live your life and interact with the world around you. They may inspire you to live more artfully.

I can’t recommend this DVD highly enough.

5 Stars Wow!!!
I love PBS and this one is no exception. Thoughtful, thought provoking and beautifully filmed. It has it all. I loved seeing the diversity of work being produced and seeing the artists talk about how they see their own work.

5 Stars Extremely well done and inspiring
This series came as a wonderful surprise; I had never heard of it and had low expectations. But the consistent high quality of the interviews and the visuals, and the enormous diversity of the featured artists, makes it a stand-out in the art documentary genre. It emphasizes each artist’s sense of place, as well as illustrating the way creative traditions are fused with culture and passed down over generations. A must-see for anyone interested in the creative process.

5 Stars Inspiring, educational fascinating look at artist craftspeople
This 3 hour dvd is a wonderful glimpse into skilled artisan/craftspeople that shows their studios, their inspirations, motivations, and technique. Not a “how to” at all, but a “why and how and who”. HIGHLY recommend!

5 Stars An overwhelming feast of creative work and people!
What an exceptional series! My daughter, who teaches art, encouraged us to purchase this series of programs because she was deeply inspired by watching one of the programs, so we gave it a try. Wow! What an adventure, visiting amazing, inspiring people from all across the country, and feasting on the rich diversity of gorgeous, works of crafted art! You meet delightful, funny, earthy, courageous people of many different “types” who share their lives and works. You see them doing their work, gathering in communities, struggling to find their way through life… and bearing the mosts beautiful, diverse works! The quality of the creations makes it harder to discern art from craft. But the best part is just delighting in story after story of amazing people, the moving accounts of their life journeys, to communities that sustain them, and their awesome works of art! Another delight is the photography of the people and the environments from which their works arise. The filming and editing are exceptionally beautiful and often powerful!

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MOTHER’s Day Countdown: Petit Fours

A Mother’s Day Tea Party? How cute is that? Family Fun Mag’s May issue is filled with the usual adorable assortment of family crafts and activities, but their mother-daughter tea party is just too sweet for words. They’ve fashioned floral hats out of wrapping paper , devised games and come up with a menu that includes these Petit Fours . And they were kind enough to share both the photo and the recipe with us. The recipe is adapted from Barbara Beery’s “ Pink Princess Tea Parties ,” a book we’

Japanese Paper Crafting Create 17 Paper Craft Projects and Make Your Own Beautiful Washi Paper

Japanese Paper Crafting Create 17 Paper Craft Projects and Make Your Own Beautiful Washi Paper

Across the country interest in paper crafts is booming. People from all walks of life are creating scrapbooks, making gift cards and learning origami. Washi, a traditional handmade paper originating in Japan, is a perfect accompaniment to these crafts. Japanese Paper Crafting teaches the essentials of making beautiful and unusual washi paper at home.

Using diagrams and photographs, this book’s step-by-step instructions will show both novice and experienced paper artists how to make washi paper and how to create 17 exciting washi projects with their own handmade paper! Projects include a hand-bound blank book; purses and wallets; desktop and tabletop accessories.

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5 Stars Any general-interest collection strong in crafts will welcome it.
Michael G. LaFosse with Richard Alexander and Greg Mudarri’s Japanese Paper Crafting provides a fine guide to Japanese paper crafting which tells how to make lovely washi paper at home. Diagrams and color photos supplement step-by-step instructions on creating some 17 washi projects with handmade paper, from a hand-bound blank book to purses, and come from one of the leading authorities on origami and paper art, a co-founder of a teaching studio, and an origami enthusiast. Any general-interest collection strong in crafts will welcome it.

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