A blog about crafts, art, selling both and other things that strike my fancy.
Hi All, As you may or may not know, along with all of the other things I am trying to juggle right now, I have a free pattern and project website/blog called The Crafty Tipster. It has a variety of free craft, crochet, embroidery and vintage knitting projects and patterns. Unfortunately, it’s been quite some […]
I have often told people that with enough trial and error I can pretty much crochet any stuffed shape I see. So, it is more than a bit ironic that I am having so much trouble duplicating one of my own designs. I even took notes the first time. And yet, like Charlie Brown, I […]
For one of our kitties, her favorite toy is a little finger puppet with a stuffed head and floppy ears. She throws it around and loves pushing under our TV stand and then digging it back out. Not to be outdone by a child’s toy; I thought I could certainly make up something she would […]
Like this section of doily that is just about complete, a new advertising option for crafters is just about ready for its grand relaunch. The Crafty Tipster, my free craft projects and patterns website, has undergone a major face-lift, change of software platform and is being updated with many new free craft projects and patterns. […]
When I started my free craft project website, The Crafty Tipster, I swore that I would not include any project that I either did not make myself or had at least one usable picture of the finished project. While that has kept the site from being yet another gigantic site of semi-useful craft projects, it […]
OK, so maybe this isn’t truly life-changing news for anyone other than me but this has been a great week for the sites in my little crafting world. Blog About Crafts News I received an email the other day from a subscriber of this blog. It was so nice to hear from her. It was […]