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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 this includes things like needle size conversion charts and the standard yarn weight system - really good!), 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 About Beading
Thousands of beading links organized by category. Once you go into a category, you can also search. Also includes a blog, and booklists.

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."

Knitty: Little Purls of Wisdom
Knitty is an online knitting magazine with loads of free patterns, articles, users' bulletin boards (or forum) & chat (under Coffeeshop), and an archive of back issues.

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
Lots of information here, including 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
This is the site for 4 print quilting magazines - McCall's Quilting, Quick Quilts, Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, and Quiltmaker - and includes a lot of free content for each. The magazines are listed on the left, and clicking on each title shows you what's available, including free patterns, articles, techniques, pictures, events and links.

World Wide Quilting Page
"Serving the World's Quilters since May 4, 1994." Includes patterns & instructions, quilters & their work, regional information, a quilting library - user-contributed patterns and information, links, and bulletin boards.

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, and an archive that goes back years.

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.

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