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1 Have You Helped Make a Ribbon Bouquet?
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2 Cool Idea: An Update on Crochet
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3 Casa Quickie: Instant Faux Bois Wrap
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4 Ready To Get Your Craft On?
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5 DIY: Super Simple Yarn Flowers
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6 Midday Muse: Bird Quilt
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7 Would You Get a Crafty Tattoo?
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8 Casa Link: Quilted DIY
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9 How To: Throw a Ladies' Crafting Party
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10 Cool Idea: String Theories
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11 Open House: What Projects Are You Working On?
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12 Home Library: French General: Home Sewn
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13 This Just In: Craft Magazine Closes, Lives On Online
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14 Which Italian Fashion House Went Craft Punk in Milan?
Fall into the season! Chilly temps are blowing in while tree leaves are changing color — a sure sign that Autumn has indeed arrived. It's time to spruce up your home with a few seasonal accessories. Check out these 6 kid-friendly DIY decor projects that add some seasonal eye candy to your home — without breaking the bank! Read more
There are now more Subways in the world than McDonald's. — Eater Kahlúa from bean to bottle. — Serious Eats Five things new cooks should know. — Eatocracy Gabrielle Hamilton talks about her upcoming memoir, Blood, Bones, and Butter. — Elle On the rise of female brewers. — The Atlantic In the kitchen with Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, of LA's Animal. — Huffington Post Food Coffee Read more
Tom Colicchio — in the words of fellow Georgia restaurateur Paula Deen — is ready to say "bye, y'all!" to Atlanta. The celebrity chef has announced plans to close his outposts of both Craft and Craftbar in the the city's upscale Buckhead district. It's been just two years since the Top Chef head judge, who won this year's James Beard Award for outstanding chef, decided to do business in the Read more
A luxury Italian fashion house put the design process on display at Milan's Salone Internazionale del Mobile, asking up-and-coming designers to create objects of art and furnishings using materials discarded from the label's production process, including leather, fabrics, plastic elements, and metal hardware. You never knew your baguette could become a sculpture for your home, did you? Read more
I have some more sad news today. Craft magazine has made an official announcement that its latest issue, Volume 10, will be its last. Due to diminishing interests among advertisers and the rise in print and distribution costs, the magazine was facing more and more challenges in publishing a print issue, and decided print publishing is no longer sensible. But, there is a silver lining: The Read more
On Project Runway, co-host Tim Gunn's most dismissive comment on a garment was that it looked home sewn. Given this unfavorable recent pop culture reference, it's refreshing to see a beautiful book proudly bearing a title of the same name. Kaari Meng, owner of the adorable Hollywood crafts and notion store French General, has extended her expertise to the book world with French General: Home Read more
I love this idea for wrapping holiday presents, which I found on Craft. Just use faux bois contact paper over some plain brown wrapping paper. Finish it off with some leaf cutouts, and you have a well-presented gift worthy of any of your faux bois-loving design-maven friends. Source Read more
Hot dogs and ostrich eggs were important ingredients on last night's episode of Top Chef. Things heated up in the kitchen of Tom Colicchio's Craft as the cheftestants had to make "new-American" cuisine. To discuss the episode (warning: spoilers ahead), read more Read more
Last weekend, I found this very cool Danish dining chair at a flea market for the low, low price of $2.50 (yes, it was that cheap!). Right now, I'm in the middle of taking all of the staples out of the chair's ugly, tweedy beige upholstery and reupholstering it in something more updated. What projects are you working on? Have you started any holiday crafting yet? Tell me about your latest Read more
I'm always keeping an eye out for unexpected centerpieces for your next party. This pretty alternative to flowers, which was created by New York event designer David Stark, was fashioned by first shaping wire into floral shapes. Then, biodegradable sisal twine was carefully wound around the wire forms. The unexpected effect is equal parts modern art and kindergarten craft project — definitely Read more
