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What’s the biggest blunder you’ve ever made on a craft project? That project gone wrong that still makes you laugh? From two heeled socks to glue accidents, we’d love to hear your funny stories. Send us your craft blooper and you could win a $100 CreateForLess Shopping Spree!

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Read the winning Craft Blooper from last year…

“My first home ec project was a sundress. Finished it looked very nice but there were a few threads here and there but I did not bother to worry about them. I wore this dress on a date to a very nice supper club that also had a band playing. After dinner my date asked me to dance, there we were, dancing having a good time, he had his hand on my waist and went to turn me out and when he did this one of those lose threads caught on his ring and my entire skirt came undone and dropped to the floor, I guess you could say it was one dance that I will never forget.”"

2010 Craft Bloopers Winner…

“When my daughter was very young, just walking really, she came up to me whining and shaking her hand. I look and almost had a stroke when I saw she had somehow found and opened some crazy glue! Without thinking I went to grab it and you know it…I was stuck to the glue which was stuck to her. I had to think for a second “ok, now what do I do?” LOL I decided nail polish remover was my best bet and managed to get it open and poor a little on and work to get us unstuck. It was a 3 stooge’s moment, but I was so grateful she didn’t get it in her eyes. I thought the house was thoroughly baby-proofed, but I was wrong! I’m grateful for the happy outcome.”

2009 Craft Bloopers Winner…

“A friend and I had organized a scrapbooking day to benefit the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. We called our event the ‘Crop for a Cure’. I was working on a small thank you card for one of our sponsors of the event. I had all the right papers, and stamps and inks, even embellishments. I was happily assembling each piece (between various event interruptions) and then came time to write my message inside the card. I was drawing each word out in a beautiful curly script. Each letter fell into place: ‘Thank You for Supporting the Cr…’ but then; the swirl of my ‘o’ in the word ‘crop’ turned down instead of up and suddenly I was thanking people not for their support of an enjoyable day of scrapbooking, but for a crass bodily function that apparently had mythical healing powers. My friends will never let me forget the day they attended the ‘Crap for a Cure’.”

Contest is open to US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand residents. To enter to win, fill out the entry form and include your craft blooper story in the description box. Contest deadline is July 30, 2012. Limited to three entries per person. Submitting a photo of the craft blooper is optional. The winner will receive CreateForLess e-gift certificates, be contacted individually via email and posted on our web site. Some entries will be showcased on CreateForLess.com, our ThinkCrafts blog and Facebook page. Submission of an entry into this contest grants CreateForLess permission to use the submitted content for promotional purposes. No specific identifying information, other than first name and city, state will be published, and your contact information will not be distributed to any other party.

Enter to win a Sewing Guide Book from Threads Magazine! Two winners will receive a copy of a Threads Sewing Guide. Prize includes either The Easy Guide to Sewing: Tops and T-shirts, Skirts or Pants or Threads Sewing Guide: A complete Reference.

The Easy Guide to Sewing: Tops and T-shirts, Skirts and Pants is divided into sections that cover sewing tops, T-shirts, shirts, and pants, each section covers the following: choosing your pattern, choosing your fabric, getting the right fit and refining it, construction guidelines and stylizing your pattern.

 Threads Sewing Guide is a complete reference from America’s best-loved sewing magazine. It covers all the bases for anyone who delights in sewing: tools (from sewing machines and sergers to pins and needles); materials (fabrics and threads of all kinds); basic sewing (from seams and seam finishes to hand-sewn stitches); garment construction (top to bottom, inside and out); tailoring techniques (for a professional look); even lingerie techniques, pressing tips, embellishments, and much, much more.

Every Friday we’ll post a giveaway on Think Crafts and all you have to do is comment on the blog post answering the question of the week. We’ll pick the winner and contact them via email. Deadline is midnight tonight and the winner will be announced Monday. One entry per person please.

Question of week: What is your favorite meal of the day?

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