December Kit Club: The Softies Kit

December 18, 2008 Crafts, Quilting, Sewing 2 Comments

 

This kit is just too too cute! You can’t help but smile when you open the box up and find all the precious surprises inside! The projects are on beautifully done cards with a photo on front, open to the instructions, and some project’s instructions conclude on the back of the card.  You are given most of the supplies needed to create each of the 15 little projects!  You will need to gather some basic crafting tools from your own stash: embroidery needle, hand sewing needle, fabric scissors, fabric marking pen, tape measure, ruler, pencil, straight pins, and fiberfill.  Patterns are included full size.  Once the kit’s supplies are done, you can just add your own scraps of fabric and felt and continue to make the cool projects!

Small plush creatures and minatures are so hot right now in all crafting categories!  And who doesn’t fall in love with tiny little treasures?  This kit is just plain fun!  It can also travel well and makes a great gift. My favorite project was the Party Cake.  I made several to give to my sewing friends as a pin cushion!  

The Party Cake front card cover is inspiring.

The Party Cake front card cover is inspiring.

I give The Softies Kit the CreateForLess 5 Star Glue Gun Award! 

Would you like to win this kit?

Be the first person to e-mail me at Maria@thinkcrafts.com and this kit will be yours.  Please put the name of the kit you want to win in the subject line of your e-mail to me. I will reply back to the first e-mailer requesting a mailing address.  Please don’t post any personal information on Think Crafts!

Fabric and Fiber Jargon

June 24, 2008 Glossaries, Quilting, Sewing No Comments
Color: a phenomenon of light or visual perception that enables one to differentiate identical items
Color Value: Lightness or darkness of a color
Consistency: the thinness or thickness of a fabric or fibre
Contrast: the sharp difference between two colors
Count: The number given a yarn or fiber to indicate its yardage per weight
Crinkling: To make or become wrinkled, rippled, roughened, or creased; usually done to fabrics like linen, challis, silk, or cotton
Dye: a color used for staining, tinting, or toning a medium. There is no separation of ingredients once dye is made
Finishing: Any treatment given to a fabric after weaving or to garments after cleaning to improve appearance like sizing or ironing
Hand: The feel, body, drape, or touch of the surface of fabric
Hue: the name of a pure color
Intensity: color’s purity or strength
Nib, Nep, Nubb: Small bits of fiber that stick above surface of otherwise smooth fabric
Piece: Length of fabric
Primary colors: red, blue, yellow
Secondary colors: mixing of primary colors; green, orange, purple
Skein: a coil of yarn also called hank