Love it or hate it, it is that time of year, Valentine’s Day. Our challenge is for you to make something featuring hearts or flowers. It does not need to be Valentine’s Day themed, but nee...
Jan 30, 2013
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For this challenge we asked the Iron Crafters to embrace the color orange. Orange seems to be a real love it or hate it color, but the Crafters embraced it and turned out some fabulous projects.
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Jan 29, 2013
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Challenge #2 for Iron Craft ’13 was to make something using the orange, either the color or the fruit. I really struggled with this challenge, which is funny as I’m the one who posed it. I...
Jan 29, 2013
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Jolene at Blue Elephant Stitches has done a series of quilts in triangles.
Here is Field of Triangles II
There is such a wonderful texture here and amazing subtly close up.
Here is Field Study Trian...
Jan 28, 2013
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Earlier this month, we gave away a pair of custom designed and knit mittens. Since then, I have been working with the winner, Beth, to design her mittens. I thought you all might enjoy seeing how the ...
Jan 28, 2013
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As soon as I saw this week’s theme, delicate, I knew I wanted to photograph the frost designs we get on our windows. Luckily, our temps were way below zero which gave me some really good frost....
Jan 27, 2013
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It’s Friday and we are in the midst of a cold snap, -29 windchill anyone? So, let’s just hunker down and look at some pretty on Pinterest.
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Jan 25, 2013
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My friend Daria recently celebrated a birthday and asked me to make her some new handwarmers with a “crazy cat” on them as a gift. I think my cat came out a little more mad than crazy, but...
Jan 24, 2013
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It looks like nautical is going to continue to be a huge trend in fashion this spring. Home decor trends tend to follow those of fashion, so nautical accessories are showing up in the stores and catal...
Jan 23, 2013
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This week we did a science project and watched.
Live Milk Colors
Supplies:
Whole Milk
Full strength dish detergent
Food colors
A white plate (white works best)
Pour a bit of milk to cover the bot...
Jan 23, 2013
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