What Do You Want to Make Today?
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 have been using cloth napkins […]
There’s always an Iron Craft Challenge around Valentine’s Day to make something involving hearts and/or flowers. Last year I made these adorable crocheted hearts and a little felt envelope to put them in. They have been a huge hit and were perfect when the girl transitioned to kindergarten this year. Anyway, I decided I wanted […]
I’ve taken part in the Iron Craft challenges from Just Crafty Enough off and on for a few years, though I’ve taken about a six-month break from them. It’s always fun for me to use someone else’s challenges and prompts instead of my own, so I’m going to try to keep up this year. The […]
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 I wanted to do a […]
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 have multiple stitches on your […]
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 time? This little decoration for […]
Learn how to decoupage a box with old maps to give it an instant antique look. When I made my DIY Dragon Eggs, the dragon had a box for the eggs to go in. This was a last-minute addition to the plan (which was all pretty last minute, since I started working on it the […]