Fun with Felt!

The July Craft Conspiracy meeting will be at my house, hopefully in my backyard on the deck if the weather is right! I wanted to do a craft that isn't too messy and without the need of too much table space.... so, we're going to be making these cute little felt pins! Here are a few ideas I found... but the options are endless!

I just finished taking a self portait class, and this is my almost finished painting. It's 3 feet by 4 feet and I've never worked on anything this big before. I'm pretty happy with it, except for a few things that I'll fix tomorrow. It's about arts vs. crafts. And speaking of crafts, Summra is the winner of last week's FREEBIE FRIDAY. Summra, if you send me your address, I'll pop it in the mail.

FREEBIE FRIDAY

I'm proud to introduce FREEBIE FRIDAY at the Craft Conspiracy. This is the first give-away, so I figure it should be something good. Denyse Schmidt has a great book on quilting, and I somehow own two copies. If you want it, you should be the first person to comment on the blog, and and it's yours. Anyone can post goods on FREEBIE FRIDAY, more than one person would be great. And nothing is too small. For example, next week I might put a baggie of pastel ric-rac up for grabs. Face it, we all love free stuff.

2 really easy projects... Thanks to Martha

I have so many scarves that I've picked up thrifting and I don't really use them that much. I still want to be able to tie one in my hair or use it as a belt, so easy projects without permanence are key. For this one all you'll need is one scarf and 2 bangles.

This next project does involve sewing, but seriously, not much of it. All you need to do is sew together two rectangles, make a little draw-string casing (EASY), add a belt and you're good to go. Why didn't I think of this first?

New Crafty Mag

Today the new Crafty/embellishment magazine Adorn is coming out. I'm going to bike up to the nearest big box book store and check it out. There's an interview with the creators here.