48+ Free Handmade Gift Ideas for the Home

It’s week three of 12 weeks of roundups including free gift ideas for the handmade holidays! Today’s roundup is all about handmade gift ideas for the home, including pillows, blankets, baskets and organizers, trivets and kitchen decoration, ornaments, wall hangings, and more! I’ve searched the web to bring you 24 free crochet patterns, 9 free … Read more

Cricut Basics: How To Lock Image Positions in Design Space by How To Heat Press

Naomi from How To Heat Press is back with the last in a series of guest posts to help you explore your Cricut! Today, she’ll share a great tip for locking designs in place in Cricut Design Space. You can use the skills from this tutorial to make your own customized projects. This post contains … Read more

33+ Free Handmade Hat and Scarf Projects to Make Great Gifts

It’s week two of 12 weeks of roundups including free gift ideas for the handmade holidays! Today’s roundup is all about hats and scarves. I’ve searched the web to bring you 18 free crochet patterns, 15 free knitting patterns, and 3 free fabric craft tutorials (including no-sew and low-sew projects) for hats, scarves, and cowls … Read more

Crochet Penguin Pattern: Amigurumi Baby Penguin

Penguins are synonymous with winter and the holidays! Today’s crochet penguin pattern for the Amigurumi Baby Penguin makes a cute cuddle buddy that can also be used as an ornament or as gift wrap embellishment. This is the first pattern in the fifth annual Holiday Stashdown Crochet Along. This post contains affiliate links. I may receive … Read more

Announcing the 2019 Holiday Stashdown Crochet Along!

The Holiday Stashdown Crochet Along is the fifth annual year-end crochet along hosted in the CAL Central Facebook and Ravelry groups. We’ve brought together a record-breaking twenty-one of the top crochet designers out there to bring you free crochet patterns for winter holiday gifts and decorations. Fourteen of our favorite companies are providing prizes for … Read more

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