Category Archives: Iron Craft

Upcycled Kitchen Rags from Cloth Napkins

This week’s Iron Craft challenge was to make something that had to do with the letter g, whether in terms of material, color or technique. I immediately thought of green, because it’s my favorite color, but then I went to the other meaning of green, as in ecologically sound. We …

Mixed-Paper Collage Bookmark

Sarah White July 8, 2015 Crafts / Iron Craft / Paper Crafts and Drawing1 Comment

I’m a day behind on the Iron Craft Challenge this week (because it was book launch day yesterday), but the idea was to create something using words. The first thing I came up with was making a bookmark, because it seems like we always need more of those. I decided …

Embossed Texture Plates DIY {Iron Craft Challenge}

Sarah White May 26, 2015 Art / Crafts / Iron Craft / Kid Crafts and Activities / Kids1 Comment

The Iron Craft challenge this week was to make something involving the letter E. I was thinking about embossing, and then I remembered a big stack of cardboard sheets I’d recently acquired (they were used as packing material in a box of books) and decided I really wanted to make …

Tunisian Crochet Basket

Sarah White May 12, 2015 Crafts / Iron Craft / Yarn Craft0 Comments

This week’s Iron Craft Challenge was about making something that looks like something else. I had a problem coming up with what I wanted to do, and then I thought about Tunisian crochet, which looks kind of woven (and while you’re doing it, it looks more like knitting because you …

Spray-Painted Decoration for Spring and Summer

Sarah White April 28, 2015 Crafts / Iron Craft / Painting2 Comments

It can be hard to know how to decorate for spring once Easter has come and gone. You don’t want to bust out the red, white and blue right away, but how can you bring a little spring inside without keeping out the Easter eggs for an unseemly amount of …

How to Decoupage a Box with Old Maps

Sarah White April 14, 2015 Crafts / Iron Craft / Paper Crafts and Drawing2 Comments

It’s Iron Craft time again, and this week we were asked to do something with the letter D. I’m cheating just a little bit because I already had this made but hadn’t yet blogged about it, but it’s the best I can do this week. You may have noticed in …

Yarn Bomb Your Bag with Knit Purse Strap Covers {Iron Craft Challenge}

Sarah White March 31, 2015 Crafts / Iron Craft / Yarn Craft2 Comments

The idea for this week’s Iron Craft Challenge was to make something just for you. It was supposed to be, in fact, a treat, but I went with something completely practical, something that fixed a problem that’s been bothering me for a long time. It’s my purse straps. You see, …