Style Substance Soul » crafting http://stylesubstancesoul.com An online gathering of women who strive to look good, feel good, do good. Fri, 18 May 2012 21:38:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Home Ec http://stylesubstancesoul.com/2009/08/home-ec/ http://stylesubstancesoul.com/2009/08/home-ec/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:42:46 +0000 Susan http://sss.kickstandinteractive.com/?p=657 Truly, home ec is not an area in which we shine, but Home Ec? Well, that’s a whole other subject.

messenger_bagThis L.A.-based craft shop and workshop offers dozens of classes where you can learn skills in embroidering, needlefelting, papier-mache – you name it, they’ll teach you how to do it. They also sell a lovingly-curated selection of beautiful yarns and fabrics which make even beginner projects look advanced.

If you can’t make it to the store, no worries. The Home Ec website features great patterns and kits you can easily follow at home. We really want to make the Amy Butler High Street Messenger Bag, and love that there’s a complete kit to sew up our own much-needed Lavender Eye Pillows and DIY Log Pillows which would be perfect thrown around the house this winter.

If only home ec had always been presented this way…

]]> http://stylesubstancesoul.com/2009/08/home-ec/feed/ 0 Stitch n’Pitch http://stylesubstancesoul.com/2009/07/976/ http://stylesubstancesoul.com/2009/07/976/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:59:24 +0000 Susan http://stylesubstancesoul.com/?p=976 If you’re a crafter who can’t bear to be without your needles and yarn, you can still catch a baseball game this summer! Stitch N’ Pitch is a brilliant idea from the National NeedleArts Association, which holds special days at both Major League and Minor League games each year at which knitters, crocheters, embroiderers, cross-stitchers and needlepointers root for their home team while working on their projects. Once you’ve experienced it, you’ll be hooked.

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