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Sunday Snapshot: Booze and Hexies | Red-Handled Scissors

Sunday Snapshot: Booze and Hexies

Turns out, much like knitting and crochet, hexies make for excellent bar crafting. Once again, English paper piecing FTW!

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Organize: Altoids Tin Hexie Template Storage | Red-Handled Scissors

Organize: Altoids Tin Hexie Template Storage

Are you an English paper piecing junkie? Sew on the go without worrying about bent or lost templates—keep your hexie pieces (or any other shape) safe, organized, and at the ready in an old Altoids tin!

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Sunday Snapshot: A Very Hexie Week | Red-Handled Scissors

Sunday Snapshot: A Very Hexie Week

This week, I snatched up all the spare moments I could, then I spent them making hexagons. There are quilt blocks in progress, my friends!

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Tutorial: Stabilizing Crocheted Buttons | Red-Handled Scissors

Tutorial: Stabilizing Crocheted Buttons

Crocheted buttons are a pretty finishing touch to any knitting or crochet project, but they can also be flimsy and hard to use. Luckily, you can add strength and usability to your fiber notions—especially large buttons made with delicate yarns—with this simple reinforcement technique. Stabilized buttons look just like their non-stabilized counterparts, but they maintain …

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