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A longtime maker’s journal focused on stitching, knitting, rug hooking and needlepoint, this blog chronicles decades-spanning WIPs, hooked rugs (cut 3–6), canvas needlepoint and finishing techniques like wool binding versus whipping and quilt-style edging. Regular Camp Loopy virtual summer challenges and project-focuse...

Hayley E. Frerichs’ Conscious and Creative Notions is a cozy maker’s journal and slow‑living resource blending sewing and quilting tutorials (scrap‑buster projects like a quilted glasses case), beginner sewing patterns, paper‑craft and bullet journal spreads, free printables, and step‑by‑step zero‑waste DIYs such as fl...

Crazy as a Loom is Hilary’s hands-on weaving studio focused on handwoven kitchen and tea towels, yardage and small prototypes made on Louet and Baby Wolf looms, with a strong emphasis on loom gear, warping mills, shuttles and dobby options (mechanical vs electronic). The site shares practical weaving tutorials, ergonom...

Alanna Wharf, the Sleepless Stamper, is an independent Stampin’ Up! demonstrator who focuses on cardmaking and paper crafting through in-person and virtual events, product-based Class‑To‑Go kits, and self‑paced video + PDF instruction. Signature offerings include the Textured Floral bundle workshops using Distinktive f...

Annie MacHale’s ASpinnerWeaver is a long-running inkle weaving resource and maker’s journal focused on narrow-band techniques, especially plain weave and Baltic (speckled) pickup, with detailed warping drafts, pattern drafts and clear guidance on heddled vs open threads, band width planning, and chart reading. The site...

Geta’s Quilting Studio is a maker-led sewing resource from Romania focused on quilting and bag sewing, offering 170+ PDF patterns, 175+ step‑by‑step photo tutorials and 30+ free downloads that support beginners and experienced sewists alike. Designer Geta shares techniques from shadow trapunto, whole‑cloth and free‑mot...

Midsummer Night Designs is the needlework journal of designer Deborah Thorpe, focused on counted-thread samplers and cross-stitch charts featuring oversized figures, patriotic and devotional motifs, and dense, block-fill stitching using limited palettes like Olde Willow threads; the site shares printed pattern releases...

Crochet Coach, founded by Carly, offers structured beginner-to-advanced crochet lessons with clear, well-paced video tutorials, a curated digital pattern library and a one-time $29 USD access option that includes a private community, live events and crochet‑alongs. The site focuses on practical skills—how to hold a hoo...

Stephanie Pearl‑McPhee’s longrunning knitting site is a personal, technique‑rich maker’s journal and resource centered on socks (Self‑Imposed Sock Club), shawls (Craghill), mittens (Canada Mittens) and sweaters like Ranunculus, plus baby sets and holiday ornaments; posts mix project notes, patterns (Defying Gravity), y...

MacDonald’s Patch is Christine M’s personal maker blog from Diamond Creek, Victoria, documenting a decades-long love of quilting, stitchery and sewing with emphasis on Tilda projects, applique, embroidery and cross-stitch. You’ll find project journals and finish lists from One Project A Month, stitch‑alongs (Tilda Wind...

Julierosequilts is the maker-journal of Julierose from Shoreline, CT, showcasing a lifetime of quilting and hand-stitching projects alongside mixed-media fabric and paper journals. Regular features include vintage 1930s-inspired quilts (flimsy progress, sashings, cornerstones, 16-patch, log cabin, pineapple and scrappy...

CraftGossip’s Card Making section, run by authors Shellie Wilson and Heather Holbrook, delivers news, step‑by‑step tutorials and free downloadable assets for papercrafters—from digital stamps, SVG cut files and printable 4×6 backgrounds to PDF templates and coloring pages. Regular features cover techniques like stampin...

Ms. Fultz’s Corner is an elementary teacher-maker’s hub focused on early learning and classroom-ready resources, offering step-by-step craft and fine motor activities like footprint and handprint projects, holiday-themed printables, play-based preschool ideas, and print-and-go worksheets for skills practice such as mul...

Helen is a Long Island quilter who documents handwork-driven projects focused on memory and scrap quilting, from photo-to-fabric transfers and embellished beach memory quilts to mourning quilts and hand-pieced Amish double nine‑patches. Her posts chronicle finishes and quilt‑along experiments—an all‑solids QAL, bow‑tie...

Kids Activities Blog, run by Holly Homer and contributors, is a family-focused resource packed with easy kids crafts, free downloadable printables and step-by-step tutorials for ages baby through elementary and family play. The site specializes in printable templates—Halloween mask sets, coloring pages (seasonal and th...

Megelles Patchwork Studio is an online Brisbane-based patchwork and quilting fabric shop run by maker Lisa Dopking, offering a curated range of quilting cottons, patchwork fabrics, wideback yardage (sold by 25cm x WOF), Moda precuts, jelly rolls, fat quarters, panels and themed fabric bundles; the shop also stocks tedd...

Happy to be Scrappy is Deb A’s personal quilting and slow-stitching journal focused on scrap quilting, nine‑patch finishes, QAYG and EPP hexagons, and sew‑along projects like the Little House Sampler; posts share WIP progress, machine walking‑foot quilting tips, hand‑binding and slow Sunday handwork, plus pattern notes...

A Lil Bit of Stitching is Nancy’s personal cross‑stitch journal documenting counted‑cross‑stitch SALs, TUSAL orts‑jar updates, travelling pattern practice and plenty of WIP-to‑finish photos. Regular posts cover stitch‑along projects like Sue Hillis’s Twelve Days and Ink Circles’ Namaste chakra series turned bell pull,...