I’m a bit late for Yule/Solstice but Happy Midwinter festival of your personal flavor. My mom is basically my inspiration for all my crafting. I grew up with my mom sewing, knitting, embroidering, crocheting. So I learned to sew and knit from her, embroidery I am self taught (from a book my mother gave me [...]
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Tags: blog, embroidery, feature, stitchpunk, Urban Threads
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Delicious lemony pound cake (I glaze it with an easy lemon glaze), the key is the ingredients being room temp (or so) including the eggs and butter. This is a fantastic afternoon tea and cake snack. It supposedly keeps well but it never lasts more than 24 hours at my house. Ingredients: 1 cup butter [...]
Tags: buttermilk, cake, lemon, lemon glaze, pound
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I have made croissants a few times and I used a recipe found online and tweaked it slightly, recipe found here. This is fairly labor intensive, tho few ingredients are needed. I always let the dough rise over night before making the croissants (since then we can have them fresh for breakfast, altho you do [...]
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I’m working on an embroidery project and using DMC’s satin embroidery floss. It’s awful, fraying so easily. Rayon isn’t the strongest of fibers but you should be able to pull the floss through cotton fabric without it fraying half way through an 18″ strand. Thank god it’s only for a portion. Never again using it.
Tags: DMC, embroidery, floss, rayon, Review, WIP
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This is simple, delicious and easy. Great for the summer. I can’t wait until I have fresh peppers and onion to use. I used fresh young garlic from my garden and they are soo sweet and tasty. Boneless Chicken breasts (however many people you are feeding) 1 Box Pasta (favorite type, I used Barilla Rotini) [...]
Tags: butter, chicken, dinner, garlic, grilled, pasta, peppers, recipe
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I have ordered a few things from Pegasus Soaps; her Dead Sea Mud masque, Bit of Honey Sugar Scrub, Whipped Coffee Caramel Cream Sugar Scrub, and Charcoal Cold Process Soap. She is incredibly fast shipper (and based in Northern Virginia, so I usually get the items the day after she ships them, one of the [...]
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In April, a bunch of my online friends (many, if not all, are crafters) got together and did a stash swap. It involved sending your person items from your stash and then they use those items to create something. The only requirements were they you use the stuff sent to you and that you purchase [...]
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I really am loving knitting (except for the fact I seem to be mildly allergic to the wool I bought for a large portions of christmas gifts). Since I have a fiercely sore throat from knitting my nephews hat (I need to find a better place to hold the cable needle than in my mouth), [...]
Tags: colorwork, first, girly, Goth, knitting, reliquary arts, skulls
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I copied this (without pictures) from this instructibles tutorial for mostly my own easy to read use. The link above has handy pictures too First you will need to make a couple measurements to calculate the amount of fabric you need. Make sure you write these down as you will also need them when we [...]
Tags: cargo, how, kilt, make, man, men, skirt, style, to, utilikilt
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