Crafty Blogs to Explore - 8th Edition

One more week to go before Summer is officially over, well, atleast it feels that one once school start. I do always look forward to this time... I am not sure now since my youngest is now a senior in high school. Anyway, I have a few more school-related projects I am working on and then I will dive head first into Hallloween and Autumn crafts, with a few Christmas items thrown in here and there.

Here are this week's offerings from my crafty friends:

• About.com Cross Stitch - Stitch this free Have a Spooky Halloween pattern to add to your Halloween decor.

• Aileen's Musings - Meet Snaily the skateboarding snail, and check out the fairies in Aileen's gardens! Aileen has created free postcards for you to send to a friend!

• Craftside- A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world - The glitter, fabric, fire and pens are flying this week at Craftside with cool lettering tutorials from Lisa Engelbrecht, lampwork beaded earrings, Modern quilt designs and patterns, knitting with fleece fabric and pictures of the Crafty Chica's Sparkle tour.

• Crafty Princess Diaries - Tammy has a new free metal clay project posted. This one is for the ID Me bracelet.

• Layers Upon Layers - Debe Friedhoff creates bottles of hope for those in need. "You can't sell hope!" Debe says. "You can only give it away!"

• Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery - You'll look fabulous coming and going this fall when you knit up this free pattern for a double sided cable scarf.

• The Impatient Blogger - Margot shares a project from her book Sparkletastic with Ana and Megan Araujo on this episode of When Creativity Knocks.

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