Articles for category: Crafts & Hobbies

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How to Make a Metal Coca Cola Cap Lampshade

This simple Metal Coca Cola Cap lampshade craft project is the perfect design feature in your home game room, Coke themed kitchen, or even in your family room. Coca Cola themed home decor items are extremely popular and have been around for quite a while. This simple Metal Coca Cola Cap lampshade also looks great ...

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Easy to Knit Scarf with Pockets

This easy to knit scarf with pockets is great for beginners and experienced knitters alike. If you have never knitted before, don’t worry. Watch this short video, which will show you all the 3 basic knitting steps you’ll need to make this beautiful scarf. The principal of the scarf with pockets is simple: you knit ...

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How to Make Shelves with Baseball Bats

Looking to incorporate some baseball themed storage in your home office or child’s bedroom? These simple baseball inspired shelves are a great way to display a collection, books or even toys. You can make these simple baseball bat shelves in less than 2 hours. You should expect to pay about $50 or less. You can ...

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How to Apply a Wash Technique in Watercolor Painting

The most important technique for a watercolor artist to learn is how to apply a wash in watercolor painting. A wash provides a background color for the watercolor, or a partial background color. The wash is made up of watercolor paint that is diluted with water. Different Types of Watercolor Washes Pale Wash – A ...

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Creating Photo EZ Screen Printing Stencils

Can’t find a stencil for the design you are looking for? Or do you usually make your own stencils, but your latest design has lots of details that would be a pain to cut out? Give Photo EZ a try. Photo EZ is a light sensitive material that allows you to make your own small ...

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Make Your Own Wicker Basket Handbag

Try this easy sewing project and create a fun and stylish Easter basket that will convert into a fun springtime drawstring handbag. You may even have everything needed to create this wicker basket bag already on hand. Odd pieces of pillow ticking or sections of striped or print fabric leftovers from the last quilt or ...

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DIY: How to Make Your Own Tomahawk

The word ‘tomahawk’ is an Algonquian term meaning ‘a light battle axe.’ Tomahawks are similar to the common American hatchet in terms of size and shape. They are also not too difficult to make yourself, and in this article I will explain the process. Before the arrival of Europeans, Native Americans would use tomahawks made ...

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Free Irish Chain Quilt Patterns

Even though I wrote Free Shamrock Applique Quilt Patterns and Free Shamrock Quilt Block Patterns for St Patrick’s Day, the free Irish Chain quilt patterns can be made in place of the shamrock quilts if you would prefer to do so. You could make one of each or all the different quilts for St Patrick’s ...

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Free Knitting Patterns for Toys

Remember the days when toys were mainly things that were homemade by loved ones? Me either, but I have heard of them. There is something about a homemade toy that tugs at your heart and will make you keep it around for years and years before passing it on to your children or grandchildren. Here ...