Armina form the blog Arminas-animals share with all the passionate of art and craft  his love for crochet miniature. She made a little crochet basket with miniature balls of yarn and a mini knit project.

Stamp’n cross stitch is a particular idea to embroider in cross stitch and paint in a same piece of linen. It is very easy and quick to do and it’s an interesting way to express your creativity.

Here are some handmade embroidery works I made in cross stitch, classic embroidery and crochet.

Coatscrafts offers a free cross stitch pattern to create a bat towel with a wonderful roses and daisy border.

On the Themotherhuddle’s Blog there is a very interesting tutorial to create a summer top for you kids. To do this project you can use recycling fabric scraps and flower fabric.

In the Blog Aidaband you can download the free cross stitch pattern with a grape. It is a motif based on an icon from Mini-image-Box.

This cross stitch pattern with orange fruit is available on Arteseriscos’s Blog. You can download it to decorate your kitchen towel.

Do you like embroider cross stitch patterns? Lasmanualidades offers five free patterns with angels to embroidery in cross stitch. You can use these patterns for your kids.

Abbygaelle offers a summer free cross stitch pattern, it is very easy to do. You can use all the colored embroidery threads you prefer and the Aida fabric.

This cross stitch pattern with a flower square is very easy to do. You can use this pattern to decorate kitchen towels, potholder, oven glove or dishrags. Download the pattern.

Use this crochet project to create your pendant 3d heart, you can use different colored yarns. The technique used is Amigurumi and the tutorial is available on Pepika’s Blog.

On the Abbygaelle’s Blog there is a free cross stitch pattern with a red poppy; you can use the pattern to decorate your kitchen linen.

Vegan Lunch Box has knitting patterns for fruit cozies, from apples, pears, bananas, to oranges! Just think how cute they look all dressed up in the fruit bowl.

The Purl Bee shares this great knitted pattern for a cuddly cotton baby blanket, perfect for little ones who are sensitive to wool yarns.

Zakka Life shows you some fun ways to make simple personalized child hangers from using a wood burning tool to using scrapbook rub-on transfers.

Little Birdie Secrets has instructions for making these simple cinch bags that are perfect for back to school. There is just enough time to whip some up before the new school year starts (I think!).

• small flower pot
• fabric scrap
• polyfill stuffing
• hot glue gun
• rubber band

Join weaver Travis Meinolf of actionweaver.com as he shows you how to make a loom from paper index cards as well as the basics of weaving 101 in this CRAFT Video Podcast. Travis is featured in the current Weaving issue of CRAFT: 08.

Sew up a small pincushion/thread catcher to catch all snipped threads while sewing with this tutorial by Karen of Kquilts Studio. A great tip is to fill the pincushion with emery instead of sand to keep pins sharper longer. Thanks Nirthikaa!

Anna from Mochi Mochi Land followed up her Resisty the Resistor toy with Captain Capacitor. She has included the knitting pattern for free to make your own capacitor toy.