I-Pad or Keyboard Cover -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Apps A sewing project for dressing your electronics for success! Fabric Yo-Yo Valentine Pin -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Art%20Vending%20Machine (Scroll down through this long post for the yo-yo pin pattern and directions.)
Easy Coiled Basket -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Basketry There is a link in the post to my two page Google Document with step-by-step photos and directions for an easy coiled basket made with clothesline and yarn. Beaded Button Brooches -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Beaded%20Button%20Brooches Instructions, diagrams, button suggestions, sample pictures. Follow the directions to link to my Flickr Photostream for a 3-page handout of instructions, plus diagrams for many beaded edging stitches, or just click right here.
Felted Headband -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Felted%20Headband Note of apology -- I consider this project only mildly successful!
Beaded Row Counter -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Beaded%20Row%20Counter Cute idea, and instructions, for creating a piece of 'jewelry' that helps you count rows of knitting. Lulu's Christmas Corsage and Felt Stocking Brooches -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Christmas%20Craft Lulu's Christmas Corsage is more idea than instructions, but there are some good ideas, including making a tiny birch bark bird silhouette. The felt stocking brooches are small and colorful, and about 20 of them decorated the Christmas lapels of nursing home residents several years ago.
Crazy Quilted Velvet Beret -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Crazy%20Quilting This tutorial includes instructions and tips for designing and piecing, crazy quilt style, for those who aren't quite comfortable with the improvisational nature of the technique! Plus directions for putting the beret together. But the beret pattern itself is not included. Patterns for berets are readily available. How-To Display a Special Hat Collection: Dressing Up Styrofoam Head Mannequins -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Display%20Tips Start with inexpensive Styrofoam head mannequins and dress them up to display your special hat collection.
Miss Hickory Doll -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Miss%20Hickory%20Doll
Miss Hickory, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. This charming book, about an independent minded little doll made from a hickory nut and applewood twig, was a Newberry Award Winner in the late 1940's. Instructions and patterns for Miss Hickory adaptation in 4 parts.
Needle Felted Tiny Dog -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Felted%20Toys Inspired by Gretel Parker's article in Mollie Makes, Kathy shows how she made her dog, Sadie, with plenty of photos and instructions.
Blocking a Baby Sweater -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Knitting%20Tips Scroll past the knitting pattern links to see Kathy's tips for blocking little sweaters.)
'Lulu's Garden' Fascinator http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Millinery These four posts include ideas and tips for making a 'scenic' fascinator, and also include directions for making the two tiny dolls that inhabit the garden hat. Felt Flowers for a Fascinator -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Felt%20Flowers A mini tutorial on making flowers from three small pieces of felt. From a Mollie Makes kit, for a necklace, but I chose to make something very different.
Pin Weaving -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Pin%20Weaving This post will get you started in designing a small pin-woven necklace or purse. Follow the links for further directions and inspiration.
Old Fashioned 3-D Valentine -- http://emmamyrtle.blogspot.com/search/label/Valentines Make a vintage valentine for your mother, aunt, sister, friend. Simplified directions, but plan to spend a few hours creating yours. It helps to have LOTS of paper craft supplies -- stickers, doilies, tissue paper, cardstock, bits of lace, poems, alphabet stickers, glitter, and ephemera.
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