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"Hand Made Craft Rocks!" Some of my most treasured items are hand made. My Grandmother's embroidered tablecloths. The beautiful knitted baby dress and jacket my Mother made for me. I am sure you also have treasured hand made items. I'd love to hear about them. Hope you enjoy all the crafty goodness this week...Please share and make Mondays fun, get our craft inspiration delivered to your inbox - CraftyLikeGranny.com #knitting #crochet #craft #DIY

Every week I am amazed at the heaps of creative ideas that crafters share.

In this post, I am sharing inspiration with the thought in mind “Hand Made Craft Rocks!”

Some of my most treasured items are handmade.

My Grandmother’s embroidered tablecloths, with such intricate work.

The beautiful knitted baby dress and jacket my Mother made for me when I was a baby, and subsequently, my daughter wore when she was a baby.

I love that my kids enjoyed the quilts and knitted/crocheted blankets I have made for them.

I am sure you also have treasured handmade items. I’d love to hear about them.

Hope you enjoy all the crafty goodness this week…

Top In Craft

The Swatcher’s Manifesto By Clara Parkes

If you ever wanted to understand the importance of knitting swatches, Clara Parkes has a wonderful post on her swatching experiences.

A very enjoyable read from a very experienced knitter.

Little Lamb Needle Keeper

Kathleen at Floss and Fleece has a template to sew your own cute Little Lamb Needle Keeper.

These come in very handy 🙂

DIY Travel Chinese Checkers Game

A clever DIY game to make using magnetic paper and wooden balls with magnets, so all the pieces stay together.

Makes for a great activity while traveling as it hardly takes up any space.

Follow Lovely Indeed’s Chinese Checkers Game Tutorial.

DIY Sharpies Mugs 7 Do’s And Dont’s

This is a great resource to check out before attempting your mugs using Sharpies.

The Six Clever Sisters provide Seven Do’s and Dont’s on creating personalized mugs.

Fallow Fawn Roll Neck Sweater Crochet Pattern

A gorgeous crocheted sweater design by Olivia at Hopeful Honey.

DIY Yarn Art Wall Hangings

So great to see people’s creativity using yarn.

These wall hangings by Fran at Fall For DIY shows you how to create them.

Balloon Girl Embroidery Tutorial

Such a lovely embroidery design used in a patchwork cushion.

Sedef from Down Grapevine Lane shares her pattern and tutorial.

DIY Painted Canvas Sneakers

Art for shoes 🙂

The ideas are endless for painting your canvas shoes.

Torrie from Fox and Hazel has created a beautiful floral theme. Check out her tutorial.

Sunglasses Case Sewing Pattern

Forget those dull cases from the Optometrist for your sunglasses!

Try sewing your case with the help of Amy’s tutorial at Positively Splendid.

DIY Granny Square Crochet Top

Emma at Gathering Beauty created Maria Valles’ Granny Square crochet top.

Emma shares her modified free pattern.

Read about Emma’s modifications and her use of cotton yarn.

Editor’s note: Our readers have said, in their free time, they love going back over previous editions of our roundups.
– So we’ve kept the crafty goodness below from this time last year.

Crochet Heart Basket

A beautiful heart design crocheted yarn basket by All About Ami looks adorable.

Using chunky yarn, this project crochets up quickly and looks fantastic!

How to Find More Knitting Time: 2 Powerful Time Management Strategies

Are you always trying to ‘find time’ to knit? Nicole Haschke has a brilliant article on her site; Knitting for Charity about time management.

I was particularly excited by this “ research has found that when we take the time to engage another part of our brains, especially in an inherently relaxing way, we perform nearly if not all our other tasks better.”