Craft Tools
Cutting mats take a whole lot of crafting abuse, which often leads to the pen marks, paint splashes, and marker stains that can make project photography a messy, distracting nightmare. Luckily, there’s hope! You can remove new and recent paint, pen, and marker stains from your favorite cutting mat using two common household items: a …
Sometimes it surprises people to learn that I’m a self-taught crafter. Though it’s true that I’ve always been a builder of contraptions, a taker-apart-er, and a plotter of grand schemes, I didn’t actually grow up knowing how to sew, knit, embroider, and construct. In fact, I didn’t learn most of those things until I was …
Painting glass just got a whole lot easier with Plaid’s new Martha Stewart Crafts Glass Paint! In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make your own geeky “tea love” mugs and a set of custom tea canisters using paints, stencils, and tools from the Martha Stewart Crafts Glass Paint line. For this project, I …
After a recent post on Instagram (username: thezenofmaking), it has come to my attention that some of you may be woefully unaware of the existence of elastic threaders. And now that I know, I can’t, in good conscience, allow such a hole to remain in your sewing toolkits. (You understand, right?) So, here’s what you …
