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Posted in Community Projects, Craft Supplies, Easy Crafts, Family Crafts, Holidays, Kid's Crafts, Techniques
Did you know there is a great blog on the Internet by one of the DIY’ers on the DIY Network? It is an interactive blog meaning you can participate too! Ask questions, fuel your creativity with their ideas, and find the answers to questions about the crafts that interest you and your family this summer. Summer is a great time for family crafts and this is a great blog for a lot of answers from DIY’ers to DIY’ers. You can Do It Yourself!
Creative Juice Blog at DIY Network
Posted in Artists, Community Projects, Computer Crafts, Craft Classes, Craft Supplies, Easy Crafts, Family Crafts, Floral Crafts, Gifts, Glass Crafts, Holidays, Jewelry, Kid's Crafts, Knit/Crochet, Metal Crafts, Natural Crafts, Painting & Drawing, Paper Crafts, Patterns, Photography, Quilting, Recycled Crafts, Scrapbooking, Sewing, Techniques, Woodworking Projects
Creativity is the fuel that drives the crafter. It is an expression of ideas that brew about in our heads. Sometimes the creativity well runs dry though, and a little help is necessary. Other times it is fun to see what other people have created and expand our own ideas. “The Creative Life,” is a television show, with a corresponding Web site, that features everything from traditional crafting to the new recycled art so popular today.
‘The Creative Life’ is your new one-stop show for step-by-step how-to segments and tips and techniques for creating unique items for the home. From decorative painting to building, gardening to cooking, sewing to home decor and everything in between, Cheryl does it all, and takes you on location as she explores every nook and cranny of ‘The Creative Life.’
The Creative Life Web Site
“The Creative Life” presents not only ideas but free patterns on the Web site. If you have been unaware of this show, you can also find the PBS scheduling so you can watch the production in your local area. You can also see different clips from the show. For the crafter, “The Creative Life” is a “creative” approach to crafting that will be become a useful resource.
The Creative Life
Posted in Communities for Crafters, Community Projects, Floral Crafts, Glass Crafts, Jewelry, Kid's Crafts, Knit/Crochet, Painting & Drawing, Paper Crafts, Photography, Quilting, Scrapbooking, Sewing, Woodworking Projects
Much of the joy in crafting results from the community that is formed by crafters. Do you have a crafting community where you live? Do you know other crafters? They don’t have to be crafters that do the same exact craft as you; in fact, it is more interesting if crafters pursuing various interests know each other as well. Of course, finding groups of people who do the same crafts is valuable as well because of the available information and experience.
I found a Web site that is for people who live in a city in Texas. You may live thousands of miles from Texas and be unable to participate, but this is a great matrix to form a crafting community for your own area. This particular set of clubs is formed around the passion of quilting, but imagine it with knitting, crocheting, painting, stained glass or any other craft; better yet, imagine it with a bunch of different crafts.
Take a look. I think you will like what Stitchin Heaven is doing.
Stitchin Heaven’s Quilt Clubs
Posted in Community Projects, Compassionate Organizations
With this project, hanging by a thread takes on a whole new meaning. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a world where everyone got along, people took care of each other, and everyone looked forward, into the future, together? It would be a wonderful and refreshing way to live. “The Thread Project: One World, One Cloth,” hopes the same thing and as an expression of that hope, is making a blanket for the entire world from all of our threads.
The world’s blanket is divided into seven sections:
- Purple symbolizing hope
- Red symbolizing harmony
- Indigo symbolizing the prayer of tolerance
- Green symbolizing reconciliation
- Orange symbolizing the dawn of change
- Yellow symbolizing lightYellow=Light
- Blue which is named Sophie’s Mantle
Woven material is composed of warp (the vertical threads) and wefts (the horizontal threads). A company has donated the warp threads to determine the dominant color but all of us out here in the real world are donating the weft threads.
They can be anything from a literal thread to strips of cloth torn from a shirt. Tying a variety of threads together end to end is a particularly good way to express the story of the “thread” and give character to the panel.
The fuzzy bits around knots add character and the variety of materials used, from shoelaces to fishing lines, yarns to strips of fabrics, reflects the variety of people and their stories worldwide.
Special threads
Any and all threads are welcome. However, instead of sending a generic thread, you may want to select a thread that carries special meaning. Ribbons from baby booties, wedding bibles, wedding pillows, stuffed animals, and christening gowns already have been tied on. You may wish to send a particular piece of lace or twine. Some have cut an inch-wide strip from a special article of cloth or clothing. Family, friends and couples have joined or braided threads together as one.
The Thread Project
You have until May of this year to send in your threads. Put your story, or the story of someone you love, in the world’s blanket. Become a part of something bigger than any of us individually.
Instructions on Sending a Thread
The Thread Project
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