The Crafty Tipster

Quilt-Like Floral Embroidery Designs

Four designs that were part of a book on learning to draw are great floral embroidery designs for quilts, embroidery projects or felt-work.

Make Your Own Silhouettes & Cameos

With a few simple photo editing tricks and some careful scissor work, you too can make your own silhouette or cameo style pieces.

Christmas Palm Tree Embroidery

A vintage embroidery pattern gets a modern interpretation with this Christmas Palm Tree embroidery pattern from The Crafty Tipster and her Mom.

Wide Pouf Crochet Flower Pattern

Free crochet flower pattern for a pin-wheel type arrangement of petals. This flower is only 3 rounds and is quick and easy to make.

Felt Embroidery

A bit of scrap fabric and an embroidery hoop might just be the secret to speeding up your projects and making them a bit more durable.

Threading Beads Onto Yarn

A quick, easy and cheap way to thread beads onto yarn or thread when your needle is either too big for the beads or too small for the thread.

Paper Christmas Tree Ornament

Several isoceles triangles and a bit of yarn never looked so good as they do when combined to create this stacked paper Christmas tree ornament.

Have you tried Zendoodling or Tangles yet? It has become one of the hottest trends in the arts and crafts world. Best of all, you don't need any special tools or training to give it a go. And, thanks to a wonderful artist from Texas and her infectious sense of humor, I had the gumption to give it a go. My results? I'm not ready for a one woman show but I will share my work in public.

Glass Block Project – Color!

A sample DecoBloc Glass Block for Crafting & a Pinterest find lead to a great and colorful glass block project that only requires Mod Podge and food coloring. It came out so cool that I might not add anything else to my glass block and just use it like a piece of art glass.

Coloring Glass with Mod Podge Experiment

Join me as I experiment with Mod Podge and food coloring to color glass in bold and vibrant colors and discover a fun way to use the leftover glaze. No pale pastels here and it even works on etched or grooved glass too.