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Web Links
Crafts
General Crafts Sites
All Crafts
Includes free patterns and projects, brief book reviews, supplier reviews, auctions, and recommended links.
Joann.com Project Ideas
Includes many free projects and patterns separated into categories, tip archives, glossaries, and bulletin boards (some listed in the project categories, and a master list under the "Bulletin Boards" tab at the top of the page.
Kaffe Fassett Studio
He's a fiber artist and designer. Includes some wonderful knitting, quilting and needlepoint designs.
Martha Stewart Living - Crafts
Includes clip art, free patterns and projects, basics, and lessons.
Michaels: The Arts & Crafts Store
Includes tips & techniques (in the Yarn & Needlecrafts section, for example, this includes needle size conversion charts and the standard yarn weight system), message boards, free patterns and projects, and galleries showing what others have made.
Crochet
About Crochet
Includes free patterns and projects, charts for making designs i.e. a rose, stitches, techniques, learn to crochet, articles on all sorts of topics, and forums.
Crochet Guild of America
Includes lessons for right and left handers, many links (the free patterns are here), and information on crocheting for charity.
Granny's Garret: The Place for Needlework
Free patterns and a tutorial on symbol crochet - how to follow a crochet diagram.
Priscilla's Crochet Free Pattern Index
Includes a free crocheting newsletter, and a very large free pattern index.
Jewelry Making
About Beadwork
Includes free patterns (organized by stitch and item), gallery, instruction, book reviews, informational articles, and forums.
About Jewelry Making
Includes free jewelry e-courses, information and instruction in all sorts of kinds of jewelry making at many levels, book reviews, free projects instructions, and a forum.
All Info About Jewelry Making
Includes free projects, informational articles, lessons, "eyecandy and inspirational links," an index (Site A-Z), and a newsletter.
Bob's Beading Tutorial Pages
"Illustrated techniques for various aspects of beading." There's also a link to a resources page.
Ganoskin: The Gem and Jewelry World's Foremost Resource on The Internet
"Ganoksin continues improving access to information for productivity, safety, skills and education of all jewelers, professionals and hobbyists." Includes articles, gallery, forum, conversion calculator (under MetalCalc), and industry websites guide.
Knitting
About Knitting
Free patterns with index, knitting stitch library, knitting lessons, articles on all sorts of topics, knitting glossary, book reviews, and users' forum.
Granny's Garret: The Place for Needlework
Includes knitting how-to's, abbreviations, glossary, symbol knitting, some samples of stitches and a couple of free patterns. Since this site is from Austria, it also offers knitting terms and instructions in both German and English.
KnittingHelp.com
"Home to over 150 free knitting videos" which you view online. Also includes some written instructions and notes, free patterns, a forum and chat, and "abbreviations explained."
Learn to Knit!
Diagrams for basic left-handed knitting, list of knitting and crochet guilds under "Guild Links."
Magical Knitting: Simple & Mysterious
Cat Bordhi is a knitting designer who has invented Moebius Knitting, a circular knitting technique that produces a moebius form. Includes free patterns and links.
Mason-Dixon Knitting
Knitting blog by the authors of "Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters' Guide." Also includes some free patterns.
Wool Works
"Wool Works, formerly known as the Online Knitting Magazine, is the oldest collection of handknitting information on the Web....[S]tarted the site in 1994...." Includes free patterns, forum, articles and tips (under Craft), a gallery of knitted works, a directory of knitting shops all over the world, and information on knitting resources such as books and knitting guilds.
Yarn Harlot
Knitting blog by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the author of "At Knit's End: Meditations for Women who Knit too Much," "Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter," and "Knitting Rules: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks." She also started the Knitting Olympics.
Quilting
About Quilting
Free quilting patterns and designs, quilt care and history, quiltmaking basics and techniques, pictures of quilts, quilting community, and a forum.
America's Quilting History
Includes free historical patterns, images, stories behind patterns, and information on quilt interpretation.
QuiltersVillage.com
Quilters Vilalge includes free content, including patterns, articles, techniques, pictures, events and links, from four quilting magazines: McCall's Quilting, Quick Quilts, Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, and Quiltmaker.
Scrapbooking
About Scrapbooking
Includes beginning scrapbooking, layouts, free scrapbooking stuff, product reviews, forums, and articles on a variety of topics.
Creative Scrapbooking: Online Information, Inspiration, and Imagination for Scrapbooking Enthusiasts
Includes layouts, tips & ideas, articles, links, contests, and chat.
Scrapbooking.com Magazine
Includes instruction, ideas, free layouts, product information, articles, archived since the year 2000.
Scrapjazz: The Scrapbooking Megasite
Includes articles and instruction organized by topic, layout gallery, product reviews, message boards, website directory and newsletters.
Sewing
About Sewing
Lessons, sewing definitions, sewing machine buying guide, and free patterns are indexed by skill level.
Home Sewing Association
Good beginning to advanced sewing instructions, patterns, and a section on charitable sewing.
Sewing.com
Message boards & live chat, sewing dictionary, newsletter archive, and free patterns.
Last updated: May 4, 2010 jc
