Pet Beds from T-shirts

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Want a way to recycle T-shirts and use up fabrics, batting and scraps along with some other things that would otherwise go to a landfill? 

Carole (From My Carolina Home) shares a project that is fast, easy, and will clean out your sewing room in a hurry. 

Carole writes, "Rural counties are always in need of donations to help with their work saving animals that need homes. The farther away from a larger town, the more they need help. As a result, they are happy to have little extras for the dogs and cats. I spent two afternoons making dog beds and crate mats to take to the humane society groups needing the most help. These are ridiculously simple and will clean out all the bits and pieces you want."

Carole shares a tutorial to make these quick and easy pet beds and crate mats. 

Weigh & Estimate Yarn

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Sometimes you need to know if you have enough yarn leftover to either complete a project or make more of something — like a second sock or mitten. You could roll the working yarn off the ball and measure it as you roll it, but that’s time-consuming and really annoying. 

Instead grab a food or postal scale and weigh the yarn. It’s the easiest way to figure out how much yarn you have left. It’s also a fantastic method to make sure you have enough yarn when you’re trying to work from your stash.

Craftsy explains the easy steps in this post. 

Fiber Body Art

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Do you love your craft enough to get a tattoo? Interweave shares some interesting fiber-related body art in this post. The tattoos range from knitting, to crochet, to spinning.

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"Prewashed" Labels

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How many times do you pull fabric out of your stash and ask yourself, “Has this been prewashed?” 

Orange Bettie shares a free printable label to affix to preached fabrics to eliminate the guess work. 

Prewashed Fabric - free printable

10 Tools for Rigid-Hedge Weaving

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“Rigid heddle” is a long term for a simple loom. On complex looms, two separate pieces control the spacing and movement of the warp yarns. Rigid-heddle looms have just a few basic parts, making them easy to use.

Interweave shares a list of ten tools necessary for using a Rigid-Heddle loom.

Warping a Rigid-Heddle Loom

How do I get the yarn on the loom? It's not nearly as complicated as you might think. Warping a rigid-heddle loom is particularly easy and fast. Liz Gipson of Yarnworker demonstrates in less than 3 minutes how to thread the loom. As the saying goes, you have to be warped to weave!