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Make some charming yarn angels for yourself! Learn how at Gingerbread Snowflakes.

I just went nuts when I saw these adorable yarn angels over at Gingerbread Snowflakes. They are so wonderfully cute!

Although Pam used knitting yarn for them, you could use any uncut skeins of thread you have to make them.

The base is a heavy cardboard cone used for wrapping yarn. Pam lives in Portland, so she went into Yarnia and bought hers, but you can buy yours on-line from them. They are described here.

This post tells you how to make the bodies and then let your stash and creativity take hold to make the rest.

I just love them and you can make then in all kinds of colors and textures.

Pam has also posted instruction on some of the individual angels. Here’s the red angel, the blue angel, the quilted angel, the wheat harvest angel, the littlest angel, and, my favorite, the beaded snowflake angel.

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Have Lots of Uncut Skeins? Make an Angel!

Cute Idea for Plastic Canvas

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I saw this Friday on Must Have Cute. If your know video games, these are Fire Flowers made on plastic canvas using floss. They are then cut out and glued to a simple hair clip. They are available, I think, on Etsy.

But isn’t this a fantastic (and easy) finishing idea. If you use 14-count plastic canvas, they’ll look delicate and you won’t have to buy any special thread.

Next week, I’ll have a post on a book that’s a great source for small motifs that would be perfect here.

This could be a delightful Easter present!

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Cute Idea for Plastic Canvas

Need an Ornament Fast? Try this Gingerbread House

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Tiny Gingerbread House from Crafty Pod

I simply adore this Plastic Canvas Gingerbread House by Sister Diane of Crafty Pod. It’s tiny, it’s just too cute and it is perfect for embellishing.

Diane comes up with so many inventive uses for this often overlooked ground, making it fun and modern.

Her step-by-step instructions shows you, in large clear pictures, how to make the house. In the process you’ll learn how to cut canvas pieces to make a 3-d house, how to apply plastic canvas details, how to assemble 3-D objects, and how to add non-stitched embellishments.

On top of all of that you can use your stash to make many different houses and you have a wonderful gift.

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Plastic Canvas iPod Case – Make it Today, Use it Tomorrow

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From Family Fun magazine’s website comes this cute holder for an iPod or other MP3 player.

It’s made using mostly exposed plastic canvas and a bit of stitching.

You could easily make it in an afternoon.

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Thrifty Stitcher – Free Plastic Canvas Pattern

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Plastic canvas washing up kit from Craft Leftovers

With more and more of us brown bagging it to work and many of us going for reusable containers, we face an unpleasant choice. We can bring our dirty dishes home and wash them there, or we can wash them at work. I don’t know about you, but I have never worked at a place that had really great facilities for washing up.

My friend Kristen at Craft Leftovers has come up with this great plastic canvas washing up kit that solves this problem beautifully and economically. Tucked inside the 3-D plastic canvas box, you’ll find a hand-knitted dishcloth and a bottle of dishwashing liquid.

It’s automatically color-coordinated because you use the same yarn to knit the dishcloth and make the box. Knitting dishcloths is an easy project, one well within the skills of even a beginning knitter. They could also be crocheted or you could even buy one.

The open mesh provides drainage automatically and, if needed, you could even hand-wash the box. The directions to make it are clear and you could even adapt them to make other boxes, maybe as containers for your kid’s lunches.

I love this fast & thrifty idea!

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Make a Tassel from Embroidery Floss

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Making tassels is not one of my better things. Much as I love them, mine always turn out badly. But now I have some on-line help with this marvelous tassel making tutorial from Bush Baby Jag. It’s goes through the process step-by-step with clear photographs all along the way.

A shout out to Denise at Craft Gossip for letting me know about it.

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Make a Quick Bracelet from Stash Threads & Plastic Canvas

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Looking for a fast project that’s suitable for kids, makes something cool and uses materials in your stash?

Look no further than these wrist wraps, a free pattern from Coats & Clark. Using plastic canvas with stitching modeled on friendship bracelets, these projects are a great introduction to needlepoint.

Although the instructions call for floss, you can use any thread that works on 18 mesh canvas on 14 mesh plastic canvas. So you can put your stash to work here.

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