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Are you going to the prom and nothing hanging in your retail stores is making the grade? Why not make your own prom ball gown at home? With some sewing skills, you might just top the best dressed list! In this two-part sewing tutorial, learn how to sew a ball gown using a dressmaker.

In this two-part video tutorial, learn how to make a beautiful quilt out of recycled t-shirts! Include t-shirts with sentimental value to your family or friends, and create a keepsake that will last a lifetime and touch the hearts of your loved ones. Get step-by-step instructions on how to make this precious item in this two-part series of sewing videos.

Hey crochet junkies, looking to try something new? In this video tutorial, learn how to crochet an adorable cluster shell. For written instructions, you can visit Crochet Mania's blogspot here.

Attention tie-dye lovers and neo-hippies! In this two-part video tutorial, learn how to make an adorable tie-dye quilted backpack. Follow these easy step-by-step instructions to make this great accessory to accompany you to the beach or on a picnic.

If you're interested in making a woman's tailored suit, chances are you will be taking some measurements beforehand.... and important ones. With the slightest centimeter or milimeter, a tailored suit can fit incredibly different than it's supposed to. In this video, learn how to properly measure a woman's hip circumference for a tailored suit.

Are you an aspiring fashion designer? Or how about just someone who loves to sew and make clothes? If you're in the market to make male dress suits, it is a must that one learns how to properly measure a man's chest girth for the proper suit jacket fit. Learn how to take this imperative measurement in this video.

In this video, learn how to make this extensive origami project designed by Anibal Voyer. To find the diagram, go here. In about a half hour, learn how to make a highly detailed winged horse sure to knock the socks off of any origami enthusiast!

For all you origami fanatics out there... Why not try this project on for size? In this two-part video tutorial, learn how to origami a pretty impressive snowflake designed by [www.origamidennis.co.uk/ Dennis Walker]. For this project, the recommended paper size is a hexagon with a side length of 10cm (approx. 4in).

This excellent tutorial shows you exactly what you have to do to crochet your very own crotchet stocking, using your left hand. This extensive video shows you the quickest and easiest way to crocheting your own hat to wear, for special and regular occasions.

This is a complete tutorial on making star baby & regular size afghans, doilies, placemats, table clothes and more. Crochet is a lot of fun and this tutorial makes starting a 6 point star easy. Mikey once again takes you step by step, to make your crocheting experience that much easier.

Save money on your kid's next party by making your own hats! These hats are made with newspaper, which makes them virtually free to create. Making your own hats is also a great activity to do with the kids at a party or anytime!You Will Need • Newspaper • Flat work surface • Elastic cord • Hole punch • Hat decorations

So why not join the party? (Oh, plus they also happen to quilt, as well).

This is a video using Swarovski Crystals to make jewelry. This video shows how to make one with a gold bow. You need a pendant with 2 hoops (in this case it is a gold bow), a pendant holder, a crystal, a bill, and pliers. You take the bill and hook the crystal on it. Then you hook the bow on it and secure it using the pliers. You take the pendant holder onto the top of the bow pendant, and press it down to secure it, and you're finished. You can also make rings, earrings, necklaces, and many...

In this video the demonstrator shows how to make an alternative style rock star bead necklace. She uses purple cording, pink round beads, and a pink and purple heart bead to construct this fun, original piece of jewelry. By using a headpin and pliers, she shows how to turn the heart bead into a charm to use in the center of the necklace. She also shows us how to knot the beads in place for a polished look. Follow her unique tips including using nail varnish to sting beads easier, seed beads to...

Berroco knit bits shows how to knit a button loop easily within minutes. 1) Thread a tapestry needle with a 18-24″ piece of yarn. 2) Knot the end of the yarn and insert the needle where you want your first button loop. 3) Make a second stitch an inch or so away from the first stitch. 4) Tighten up the thread, placing your fingers in between the yarn and the button band creating a loop. 5) Work blanket stitch around this loop, stacking each stitch on top of the previous one until the...

To make mini cupcake earrings first take a piece of sculpey and make a cylinder. Make vertical indentations around the cylinder, similar to those an the edge of a quarter. this forms the bottom of the cupcake. Next take another small piece of sculpy and role it into a line like a piece of yarn. starting at the edge of the top of your cylinder coil the line of sculpy around the edge and up, similar to a piece of novelty poop. this forms the cupcake. stick a earring finding through the top of the...

The first step in making a pair of hematite hoop earrings is to gather your supplies. You are going to need some needle nose pliers, two head pins, a hood bead, a small bead, a bigger bead, and two French earring hooks. First, take a head pin and insert it into one of the holes on the loop bead. Follow with the smaller bead and then the larger one. Then, taking your needle nose pliers, bead the remaining wire of the pin 45 degrees. After that, go above the bend about a quarter of an inch...

Making your own hoop earrings can be fun and easy. In this video we learn to make gold-filled beaded hoop earrings with some wire, pliers, beads and an empty pill bottle. Take a 6 inch piece of 20 gauge wire and wrap it around the pill bottle. Then you take your round nose pliers and bend the tip of the wire in a 90 degree angle ending in a circle. You can be creative with what you put on for beads. In this video it shows a purple focal bead and 30 plain beads. So you would put 15 of your plain...

You will be using a picture of a Nintendo character and perler beads to make the necklace. Start by making an outline of the character using black perler beads. Then begin using colored beads to fill in the character. The color beads allow you to fill in the character and they also allow you to create all the detail on the character. You can shade and use multiple colors in making the characters. After you have put all the beads on the card put a sheet of waxy paper over the character and...

Learn how to make a River Bar bracelet, which is also known as a Paracord bracelet, by following the steps outlined in this video tutorial. To start your bracelet, you will need to tie a reef knot. This is done by taking two loops (in two different color strings) and then placing one loop within the other, pulling this through the first loop to secure the two loops together. This knot creates the end of your bracelet. To actually make the River Bar design, bend the two colors of string so that...

For this project you will need some 4 mm orange beads, acrylic spacers, 4 mm black glass beads, 8 mm black glass beads, 10 mm orange glass beads, memory wire, headpins & skull charms. You also need pliers that include bent nose pliers, chain nose pliers, round nose pliers and memory wire cutters. Ordinary pliers become blunt when used on memory wires. In the first step cut some loops of the memory wire depending on how many loops you want to have on your wrists. Now take a skull charm and a 4...

Here's a great craft project you can do with kids or in a classroom. You can use an apple half to stamp apple shapes onto everything from lunch bags to tote bags. This is an easy and cute project to do for the fall.

The origami magic ball is a very popular but few tutorials show you how to make one in greater detail than this four part series. This complicated paper design takes a little while to create but is worth it in the end when you have a totally unique, fluffy new toy to play with. This origami ball was designed by Kade Chan and is one of the best.

Hemp jewelry is very trendy and eco-friendly. They are easy to make and don't take long. In this three part tutorial, learn the basics for making your own hemp bracelet.

Chainmail is quite difficult to make, but with this two part tutorial, you will soon be on your way. In these videos, learn how to make a piece of classic chainmail armor at home. Make smaller pieces to use as jewelry or decoration or make a whole suit for a cool knight costume.

Chainmail is a classic accessory. It is a symbol of strength, royalty and the famous uniform of a knight. This two part tutorial will show in depth how to make the 4 in 1 pattern. This is the first basic pattern in chainmail, but with practice you will soon be maikng 6 in 1 and 8 in 1.

Danielle Proud shows and discusses her version of how to reinvent the Christmas wreath. She uses black spray paint to highlight the leaves that she uses. After she sprays the leaves with the black spray paint she sprinkles glitter on to the painted areas of the leaves. Using a circular wreath frame she creates her vivid modern Christmas wreath. She makes sure to give you step by step instructions on her vision. When it is all said and done she shows you a finished wreath she has made using her...

Looking for a unique and inexpensive place to store your small possessions? In this two part tutorial, learn how to fold an origami jewelry box. All you need is paper and your fingers. This is a very cool origami project that is fun and easy to learn.

In this jewelry-making basics tutorial, learn how to make an eye pin. To create an eye pin, you will need wire. Size 24 or 22 gauge wire is the best kind of wire to make an eye pin. The thicker the wire, the more difficult it may be to work with. To begin, straighten out your wire and cut the length you need to make your eye pin. Taking some round nose pliers, you will bend the wire up while rolling it toward yourself. Do not pinch the wire too tightly with the pliers because it can leave...

Artful Paper Doll demonstrates how to make a mini paper corset for a paper doll. Take two rectangular piece of hard paper which is of measure 4 by 5 centimeters. Cut the edges of the breadth part make it round. Cut the length part inward to make it into shape of a waist. Take a pattern cloth and paste it to shapes. Now take a lace with one end trimmed. Fold it in zigzag way. This should be pasted beautifully to the bottom of the corset. Now take a thin lace and paste it over the zigzag lace in...

Here is a way you can make your own jewelry for little money and have fun doing it. In this video we are shown how we can add feathers to existing earrings and necklaces. For this project we need some feathers, a pair of earrings, some silver plated copper wire, needle nose pliers, and scissors. The earrings used in the video are already made circle earrings. The first step is cut about a circle's length of copper wire and grab a feather. Wrap the wire nice and tightly around the quill of the...

You want to start by determining what kind of charms and the size of the necklace. Most necklaces are about 16-20". If you wanted to make a choker or a bracelet, then measure out a smaller piece of cable chain. Using a ruler makes it easy to measure and later on to add the charms evenly. Using chain nose pliers and side cutters, you want to cut a jump ring and attach to the trigger clasp and then close the end with the pliers. Take the chain and center it on a ruler, find the middle and that's...

To remove a bookplate, you will need paper towels, wax paper, distilled water, water colored paper, a weight, and a blunt knife. Cut the paper towel slightly larger than the bookplate itself with scissors. Wet the paper towel and blot it dry with another piece so it is damp. Fit the paper towel over the bookplate, put the wax paper on top of it, and let it sit under the weight for twenty to thirty minutes. Once the paper towel has soaked into the bookplate, gently peel the bookplate off with a...

Mark Nelson accompanied by Rio Grande demonstrate by the start where you need a wire with stiffeners to it of various colors. 3 pieces of different colors of wire each 2 ½ inches long is needed for the earring. Pick a clamp where you can pass the 3 wires twice. First push it half way once and put the other end back in the hole and pull the ends through. This can also be done in an asymmetric way. Now you add 6 beads in any combination of colors. Use it in a 2 mm length and then cut off the end...

In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to do Whipstitching. The video demonstrates how to stitch the bottom of a cloth basket to the sides of the basket. A whipstitch is a very basic stitch. Start at one end of the basket; attach the bottom to the sides with a pin. Pass the needle from the inside so that the knot is hidden. All you have to do is taking the thread and whipping it around the edge. At the beginning, give it a bit of binding stitch before stitching the rest of the...

Use paper to be creative and engage in some easy crafts to create something out of a simple piece of paper. 1. In this paper craft start by creating a paper football and a paper boat. They are quite easy to make, and if you do not know how to do them you can easily find videos which describe how to do each one of them on the internet. 2. Once you have both the paper football and the paper boat you will be able to create a paper launcher by following this video. 3. Start by turning the...

This video shows how to crochet a chevron stripe pattern using stitching techniques. The instructor shows you to make a patterns of three loop stitches to create the chevron stripe pattern. The instructors shows that after six standard stitches you decrease your stitches to create the waving design in the creases. This pattern is done many times until the you will see the waving formation in the stitches appear. at the peak of the waves you are instructed to do another decrease. Following the...

This video shows how to make paper roses. Start with several die cut flowers, preferably with six petals. Take one and slit it so that you can fold one of the petals over the other one and glue them so that they are overlapping. Take another die cut flower and cut one petal completely out, again folding the two edge petals and gluing them together so that they are overlapping. Do another flower the same way but cutting out two petals. In the final product each of these will overlap each...

Watch this video to learn how to make a standard paper airplane that flies great. You will need one standard piece of paper. 1- Fold the paper in half, long ways. 2- Unfold the paper, take one corner from the top and fold it to the middle. 3- Take the other corner from the top and also fold it to the middle. 4- With both corners still folded down, fold the piece of paper down the crease that was made in the first step. 5- Without unfolding anything, fold each side down, creating wings. ...

In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to baste a quilt for free-motion quilting patterns. This video is presented by craftygemini. This method of loading your quilt onto your quilting frame is known as floating where the quilt top and the batting are floated. Neither the top nor the batting are rolled and pinned onto leaders like a backing fabric. First go to the top center point of the quilt top, put the pressure foot down and take a stitch. Bring the bottom thread up, hold...