Share free craft patterns/sites, please!!

Mrs.Zip

I'm starting to "nest" pretty hard ... and looking for free online patterns and craft how-to sites, please!

Share those that you love ... I'm bookmarking like mad in Delicious and printing patterns and tutorials like crazy -- please help me stock up on patterns and fun stuff!!

tommigirle

check out the archives on the sew mama sew blog. that will keep you busy if you sew!

lytedark

what sort of crafting do you do?  ravelry.com is good for knit and crochet.  someone else recommended crafster as well for a wide variety of crafts..they're a dot org btw - crafster.org.  :-D

Mrs.Zip

I mostly sew, though I'm in the process of teaching myself how to both crochet and knit. I know, I know .. I'm kind of OCD and obsessive/compulsive and indecisive about what kind of crafting I want to do!!!

I'm really open to anything ...

And I'm already all over Sew Mama Sew and Craftster ... keep 'em coming!

swedish-fish

I second Ravelry and Craftster.  Also, marthastewart.com and whipup.net are both good resources.  Start a blogroll, too.  There are tons of talented bloggers out there.

lytedark

lol - if you're already crazy OCD with your crafting stay away from me because i'm the same way and we'll just feed each other's craziness!  DH can't stand it - i have a kiln and torch from my stint in glassworking/glass bead making (decided that our current setup is unsuited towards the necessary ventilation and that i wanted a better torch which requires oxygen tank rental which is annoying/difficult to figure out how to do), containers and containers of beads from jewelry making that i got frustrated with because i wasn't selling things on my etsy store frequently, 4 giant tupperwares of yarn/knitting/crochet supplies from my previous (and now current) obsession with fibers along with a smidge of roving and hand spindle from wanting to learn to spin.... hmm...what else.. lol.  basically whenever there's something someone else does that i haven't/don't know how to do i want to learn super bad.  oh sewing!  that's supposed to be my next endeavor except the sewing machine i got for xmas is still in the box seeming like a giant deal to try and set it up and get started.

okay - ramble over.  :-)

Mrs.Zip

lytedark:

lol - if you're already crazy OCD with your crafting stay away from me because i'm the same way and we'll just feed each other's craziness! 

 

Lytedark, I love you! Sounds like we're awfully the same when it comes to crafting. DH bought me a sewing machine for Christmas and I've been using it every night for the past week! I.love.it.!!! You should start sewing ... :-)

lytedark

hahaha!

did you have experience sewing before getting the machine?  i haven't really sewn much since high school home ec class apart from borrowing a friend's machine to make a few rice bags once and she set everything up for me, i just basically had to push the fabric and step on the gas!!  lol..  i really really want to learn but don't have anyone to teach me and it feels so overwhelming!

jolata

I like checking https://www.oneprettything.com/ they have links to a variety of craft ideas! https://diygiftsforkids.blogspot.com/ If you want links to projects for kids. https://www.sewmamasew.com/blog2/ and https://www.purlbee.com/ are also good

lytedark

ohhh i forgot about one pretty thing!  i haven't done anything off it but like to look at all the stuff.  lol.

Mrs.Zip

lytedark:

hahaha!

did you have experience sewing before getting the machine?  i haven't really sewn much since high school home ec class apart from borrowing a friend's machine to make a few rice bags once and she set everything up for me, i just basically had to push the fabric and step on the gas!!  lol..  i really really want to learn but don't have anyone to teach me and it feels so overwhelming!

 

Honestly, before I started my most recent projects (baby quilt and diaper bag) I hadn't sewn since some 4-H projects .... 15 years ago. It's like riding a bike, though. :-) I promise!!!!!

Why not ask your friend for some help? Or, see about taking a class at your local Joann??

lytedark

Mrs.Zip:

Honestly, before I started my most recent projects (baby quilt and diaper bag) I hadn't sewn since some 4-H projects .... 15 years ago. It's like riding a bike, though. :-) I promise!!!!!

Why not ask your friend for some help? Or, see about taking a class at your local Joann??

sadly the friend lives too far away to help me now and we are too poor currently for me to spend the money on a class - but i totally want to do a quilting class when i can.  that is what i'd love to get into the most with the sewing machine - quilting.  :-)

jolata

lytedark:

ohhh i forgot about one pretty thing!  i haven't done anything off it but like to look at all the stuff.  lol.

I check that site almost every day! I have only made 1 thing that she featured. I do save a lot of links though, thinking that maybe someday I will actually get to do them!