You crafty readers are probably already well aware of Craft Leftovers, but for anyone who isn’t, I’m happy to enlighten you! Craftleftovers.com is Kristin Roach’s website, which is focused on projects you can do with materials left over from bigger projects. Ranging from sewing to knit to crochet to embroidery to bookmaking to weaving and much more, you can find the archive of all Kristin’s free projects here.
So, in addition to those free projects on her site and blog, Kristin also has a fabulous zine! Craft Leftovers Monthly is all about living life creatively. It’s full of resourceful projects, patterns, and ideas for using what’s on hand. It turned two years old in August, and is 100% recycled and handmade! There’s also an optional kit each month that you can order with with the zine, so fun! And starting with the current issue, the zine format has been upgraded to 5×7, 32 pages, and now with projects by guest designers!
To celebrate the new zine format, Kristin has donated 2 copies of the winter issue for me to give away to two of you! Awesome! Just leave a comment here before Monday at 8pm (west coast time), telling us what craft material you have most of in leftovers – for me it’s probably yarn, but I have a ton of fabric scraps too! I’ll choose 2 zine winners at random, which I’ll post here Monday night – and there might be a little something special for all non-winners too!
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Random yarn ends, and tons of wrapping paper! I always save it!
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Random yarn ends, and tons of wrapping paper! I always save it!
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Loads of yarn in every weight, shape, texture, color, and a BUNCH of cardboard boxes. I save the boxes for repackaging, storage, and whatever comes to mind.
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Loads of yarn in every weight, shape, texture, color, and a BUNCH of cardboard boxes. I save the boxes for repackaging, storage, and whatever comes to mind.
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Yarrrrrrn! and Fabric but mostly yarn.
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Yarrrrrrn! and Fabric but mostly yarn.
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I’m really big on yarn, but I have a lot of thread — inherited from my mother, aunt and grandmother.
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I’m really big on yarn, but I have a lot of thread — inherited from my mother, aunt and grandmother.
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Looks like a fun little zine. As for leftovers, it’s yarn by a long shot. Nothing else comes close.
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Looks like a fun little zine. As for leftovers, it’s yarn by a long shot. Nothing else comes close.
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Crafty leftovers: YARN, of course. Also, embroidery thread (random, but I worked at a summer camp for years; friendship bracelets anyone?)
ps. Leethal, I am a new follower of the blog, and I would like to say: LOVE the photographs. And! I aspire to your creativity in knitting. I am still a lowly pattern follower (a sheep? bah).
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Crafty leftovers: YARN, of course. Also, embroidery thread (random, but I worked at a summer camp for years; friendship bracelets anyone?)
ps. Leethal, I am a new follower of the blog, and I would like to say: LOVE the photographs. And! I aspire to your creativity in knitting. I am still a lowly pattern follower (a sheep? bah).
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Yarn! And fabric. and sequins. For some reason I have a ton of blue and green sequins.
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Yarn! And fabric. and sequins. For some reason I have a ton of blue and green sequins.
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.. yarn leftovers for me too; though they don’t really last so much – I usually crochet/knit them into hats 🙂 easy to finish up quickly, easy to decorate nicely and so much fun along!
one tip that I sometimes use myself: mix one yarn with some contrasting-color string (for example some really thin silk string). In the end, some margins of the project can be ‘highlighted’ by doubling the contrasting string, and so on.
leftovers = creativity! have fun, everyone!
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.. yarn leftovers for me too; though they don’t really last so much – I usually crochet/knit them into hats 🙂 easy to finish up quickly, easy to decorate nicely and so much fun along!
one tip that I sometimes use myself: mix one yarn with some contrasting-color string (for example some really thin silk string). In the end, some margins of the project can be ‘highlighted’ by doubling the contrasting string, and so on.
leftovers = creativity! have fun, everyone!
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I have tons of yarn leftovers and lots and lots of paper and ribbon from scrapbooking. I love the idea of using up those leftovers that I keep saving!
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I have tons of yarn leftovers and lots and lots of paper and ribbon from scrapbooking. I love the idea of using up those leftovers that I keep saving!
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Lots and lots of yarn…and random bits of beads, buttons and chopped up jewelry from pieces I’ve made. One big, lovely leftover mess…
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Lots and lots of yarn…and random bits of beads, buttons and chopped up jewelry from pieces I’ve made. One big, lovely leftover mess…
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I have a million different types of yarn.
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I have a million different types of yarn.
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Ooo, shiny! This “Guest Designer” thing you mention also interests me; I’ll have to check it out.
Yarn and fabric scraps, of course. I also play with a lot of polymer clay, and inevitably have little colorful bits left over that no longer match any particular color.
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Ooo, shiny! This “Guest Designer” thing you mention also interests me; I’ll have to check it out.
Yarn and fabric scraps, of course. I also play with a lot of polymer clay, and inevitably have little colorful bits left over that no longer match any particular color.
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Like everyone else, I have a lot of yarn, but I have even more beads! At least the beads don’t take up as much space as yarn.
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Like everyone else, I have a lot of yarn, but I have even more beads! At least the beads don’t take up as much space as yarn.
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I have yarn, I have fabric, I have tiny doll heads and hats from my grandma, I have lace and I have boxes and kool aid containers and jars and other random things that I look at and think, I can make something with that. It would be nice to have a bit of inspiration instead of stacking it all up in my craft room/disaster area.
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I have yarn, I have fabric, I have tiny doll heads and hats from my grandma, I have lace and I have boxes and kool aid containers and jars and other random things that I look at and think, I can make something with that. It would be nice to have a bit of inspiration instead of stacking it all up in my craft room/disaster area.
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Yarn, yarn, beads, fabric and yarn. I separate the yarn into superwash and feltable and make pincushion balls of felted yarn that often turn into cat toys.
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Yarn, yarn, beads, fabric and yarn. I separate the yarn into superwash and feltable and make pincushion balls of felted yarn that often turn into cat toys.
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I have lots of leftover yarn, beads, polymer clay scraps– wish I could call it “planned over” but it is not 🙂
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I have lots of leftover yarn, beads, polymer clay scraps– wish I could call it “planned over” but it is not 🙂
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I have a lot of fabric, but I never consider that “leftover” as it’s easier for me to figure out how to incorporate a small scrap of fabric into a project than to use a small amount of yarn. But I still hoard those little yarn balls like there’s no tomorrow, of course.
For what I would truly call “leftovers,” I have a lot of beads. I buy a little bag of beads use a few to make earrings, and then have a ton leftover.
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I have a lot of fabric, but I never consider that “leftover” as it’s easier for me to figure out how to incorporate a small scrap of fabric into a project than to use a small amount of yarn. But I still hoard those little yarn balls like there’s no tomorrow, of course.
For what I would truly call “leftovers,” I have a lot of beads. I buy a little bag of beads use a few to make earrings, and then have a ton leftover.
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For me, it’s mostly yarn. Lots and lots of yarn! I have fabric, too, but as a quilter who loves scrappy quilts, that never seems to be a problem. =)
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For me, it’s mostly yarn. Lots and lots of yarn! I have fabric, too, but as a quilter who loves scrappy quilts, that never seems to be a problem. =)
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I have tons and tons of left over yarn, and fabric, and paper. 🙂 BTW, I love the club kit that was sent out this week!!
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I have tons and tons of left over yarn, and fabric, and paper. 🙂 BTW, I love the club kit that was sent out this week!!
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I have waaaay too much felt hanging around. I always think I am going to need more of it than I actually do.
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I have waaaay too much felt hanging around. I always think I am going to need more of it than I actually do.
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Fabric! Oh my; bags and bags of scraps in the basement waiting for a good home; in the studio are bins of tiny wool sweater scraps, a tote of stretchy fabric scraps, a large basket of woven/fancy fabric scraps, another large basket of slightly larger wool sweater scraps, a bag of scraps waiting to be used as stuffing…much of my crafting creativity centers around “how can I use up these scraps before they take over my house?”
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Fabric! Oh my; bags and bags of scraps in the basement waiting for a good home; in the studio are bins of tiny wool sweater scraps, a tote of stretchy fabric scraps, a large basket of woven/fancy fabric scraps, another large basket of slightly larger wool sweater scraps, a bag of scraps waiting to be used as stuffing…much of my crafting creativity centers around “how can I use up these scraps before they take over my house?”
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Fabric. I usually can get pretty creative with leftover yarn so it goes pretty quickly, but fabric pieces the shape of Idaho somehow always linger around…
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Fabric. I usually can get pretty creative with leftover yarn so it goes pretty quickly, but fabric pieces the shape of Idaho somehow always linger around…
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i’ve downsized my once enormous craft stash a lot in the past year, so now it’s mostly yarn and wool bits.
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i’ve downsized my once enormous craft stash a lot in the past year, so now it’s mostly yarn and wool bits.
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I have a ton of yarn left over… or yet to be used depending on how you look at it!
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I have a ton of yarn left over… or yet to be used depending on how you look at it!
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What a great site, it’s new for me, i will spend hours reading, thank you for sharing it with me.
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What a great site, it’s new for me, i will spend hours reading, thank you for sharing it with me.
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