Crafts & DIY
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http://southmountainguilds.blogspot.com/
South Mountain Guilds is a blog for a local crocheting and knitting guild, sharing meeting updates, challenges, and community craft projects like the Warm Up America afghan initiative. Members coordinate events, track progress on charitable crochet goals, and discuss techniques such as Tunisian bobbles and lace.
http://home.cio.net/annbow/page2.htm
Ann Nash is an AQS Certified Quilt Appraiser based in La Conner, Washington, offering professional quilt appraisal services, a retail store called Creighton's Quilts, and a curated selection of antique and new heirloom quilts for sale. The site covers everything from insurance appraisals and donation valuations to quilting books, folk art, and quilt-related jewelry available at her shop in the Morris Street Antiques mall.
http://thequickunpick.blogspot.com/2010/12/double-layer-twirly-skirt.html
The Quick Unpick is a sewing and crafting blog featuring step-by-step tutorials like this double layer twirly skirt with vertical shirring and scalloped elastic detail. The creator shares beginner-friendly sewing guides, fabric tips, and original garment patterns with plenty of in-progress photos.
https://mnwwg.org/
The Minnesota Woodworkers Guild brings together professional and amateur woodworkers dedicated to the highest standards of the craft, offering classes, tool rentals, a DVD library, and special interest groups. Members also gain access to vendor discounts, a classified ads board, exhibition events like the Northern Woods Exhibition, and a tuition grant program.
http://themermaidsden.blogspot.com/
The Mermaid's Den is a crafting blog focused on polymer clay techniques, featuring step-by-step tutorials for projects like stained glass tile boxes, custom stencils, and decorative canes using tools like Cricut, alcohol inks, and Pearl Ex powders. Each post walks through materials and methods in practical detail, making it a useful reference for polymer clay hobbyists looking to try new mixed-media approaches.
http://starquilts.com/index.php
Polly's Quilts showcases authentic Native American star quilts handcrafted by Polly, a member of the Hidatsa and Arikara peoples from the Ft. Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The site features a gallery of colorful, handmade quilts rooted in Northern Plains tradition, along with the story of how Polly learned her craft from her mother in 1971.
http://quiltrecipes.com/index.php
Munnich Design's Quilt Recipes is a commercial pattern library offering both computerized and hand-guided quilting patterns organized by category, date, and pattern number. Visitors can browse free and paid designs, download software, watch how-to videos, and purchase subscriptions for ongoing access to new quilting patterns.
http://wdyt.com/crafts
Craft Patterns is a free pattern directory covering crochet, cross stitch, knitting, plastic canvas, sewing, and quilting, organized by craft type for easy browsing. Visitors can also submit their own patterns from external web pages, making it a community-driven collection for craft enthusiasts.
https://www.quilterscache.com/
Marcia Hohn's Quilter's Cache is a treasure trove of free quilt block patterns, featuring hundreds of traditional and original designs alongside beginner lessons covering paper piecing, applique, color theory, and yardage calculation. Visitors can also browse an inspirations photo gallery, access a fabric conversion chart, and subscribe to a site newsletter, making this a comprehensive quilting resource built over decades of passion.
https://wetcanvas.com/forums/topic/fiber-arts-links-books-and-resources
A community-curated thread on WetCanvas collecting links, books, and resources dedicated to fiber arts including knitting, crochet, and related textile crafts. Started in 2007 by user Rose Queen and grown through community contributions, it serves as a reference hub for artists exploring fiber-based media.