Quilting for Peace: Stitch Your Own Shopping Bag
Stitch-by-stitch throughout the decades, the art and craft of quilting has long held a quiet power to gather communities together — whether it be through quilting bees, wartime efforts, painstakingly creating heirlooms and gifts, or resourcefully gathering together fabric scraps to mend a garment …
Vote! What is Your Favorite Autumn Decor?
We want to know which item gets you in the mood for food — I mean, for the fall holidays. A plush pumpkin on the stoop or a fall wreath on the door, a quaint quilted table runner or a cornucopia of acorns, find all this and more in this week's community vote.Every week we ask our readers to nominate items for this …
The Pleasure is All Plaid: Warmfuzzies Wins the Vote
We had a hunch Etsy designers and artists were reinventing plaid, so we asked our readers to nominate their favorite plaid items, and then we put the vote to you. Now the votes are in! Congratulations to warmnfuzzies whose bright "Mad About Plaid" pillow cover is looking sharp. Her quilting gives this pillow …
The Most Wall-Worthy Art
We asked our readers to nominate their favorite photos, paintings, prints, art quilts, and any other wall art that would banish garish blank walls. Then the community voted with record-breaking force, and now the results are in! 299 people put their votes behind JessicaDoyle and her Sassy Sea Urchin Print …
Etsy Finds Vintage: Reduce, Reuse, Reinvent
As a vintage lover and treasure seeker, there's nothing more exhilarating than rescuing a piece of history from certain doom in a landfill. While I love to use and display the many objects that I collect (skulls, doll heads, quilts), there are inevitable leftovers that leave me scratching my head. What should …
There's No Place Like Here: Forestbound & The Snail and The Cyclops
Friend Etsy on Youtube or Blip.tv | Subscribe to Etsy's iTunes Podcast | MP4 (music by Luc, animation by JuliaPott) Three years ago, Alice Saunders, a.k.a. Forestbound, and Francesca Zmetra, a.k.a. Thirteen Eighty-Five, (who's also responsible for the delightful blog, The Snail and The Cyclops) became roommates in an …
Etsy Finds: The New Old School
There are many things in life that you can teach yourself: sewing a hem, making delicious hummus, and playing the harmonica are some accomplished examples. The do-it-yourself ethos runs deep and strong here on Etsy, but there's another facet to this creative treasure trove. Today's Etsy Finds are devoted …
Etsy Finds Decor: Crafting a Cozy Studio
This weekend's Get the Look: Decor was found while browsing through the Etsy Open Studios flickr pool. Manda's lovely studio space, colorful collection of fabrics and tidy, well organized supplies really stood out. Her UK studio is filled with inspiring fabric swatches, artwork, books and magazines that …
(Hippie) Handmade Weddings: Circa 1972, Baby!
Growing up, I always had a flair for the theatrical. I think I inherited this inclination from my awesome hippie parents. You see, my parents’ 1972 Hippie Wedding is a thing of legend in the small town of Alameda, California. New in town, they posted signs on telephones poles inviting the town-folk to attend …
How-Tuesday: Snuggle Up with a Bedtime Duvet
I challenge you to scroll down without feeling overcome with an urge to yelp, "Awww!" Don't worry, you're not weak, it's simply an impossible task. Download the complete project instructions here, or follow along below, courtesy of Baby Stuff by Aranzi Aronzo. Aranzi Aronzo claim to be a Mexican-Japanese man …
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