MISCELLANEOUS CRAFT RESOURCES
Craft Resource Directory

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Reconstructing:

99 Ways to Cut, Sew, Trim, and Tie Your T-Shirt into Something Special
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Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt
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Rip It!: How to Deconstruct and Reconstruct the Clothes of Your Dreams
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T-Shirt Makeovers: 20 Transformations for Fabulous Fashions
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Tease: Inspired T-shirt Transformations by Superstars of Art, Craft, and Design
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Second-Time Cool: The Art of Chopping Up a Sweater
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99 Ways to Cut, Sew & Deck Out Your Denim
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Cheap Frills: Fabulous Facelifts for Your Clothes
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New From Old: How to Transform and Customize Your Clothes
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Altered Clothing: Hip Fixes and Transformations with a Needle and Thread
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New Techniques for Wearable Art: Creative Ideas for Transforming Clothes and Accessories
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Customizing Cool Clothes: From Dull to Divine in 30 Projects
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Sewing and Fashion:

The Encyclopedia of Sewing Techniques (this is the book I used when I was teaching myself to sew)
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Sew Subversive: Down and Dirty DIY for the Fabulous Fashionista
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Subversive Seamster: Fabulous Projects that Transform Thrift Store Threads into Street Couture
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Sublime Stitching: Hundreds of Hip Embroidery Patterns and How-To
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Sew What! Skirts: 16 Simple Styles You Can Make with Fabulous Fabrics
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Sew U: The Built by Wendy Guide to Making Your Own Wardrobe
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Bend-the-Rules Sewing: The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew
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High Fashion Sewing Secrets from the World's Best Designers
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Make Your Own Dress Patterns: A Primer in Patternmaking for Those Who Like to Sew
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Fit for Real People: Sew Great Clothes Using ANY Pattern
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General Crafts:

The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts
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Bazaar Bizarre : Not Your Granny's Crafts!
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AlternaCrafts: 20+ Hi-Style Lo-Budget Projects to Make
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Get Crafty : Hip Home Ec
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Super Crafty: Over 75 Amazing How-to Projects!
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The Crafty Diva's D.I.Y. Stylebook: A Grrrl's Guide to Cool Creations You Can Make, Show Off, and Share
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The Crafty Chica Collection: Beautiful Ideas for Crafts, Home Decorations and Shrines from the Queen of Latina Style
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Crafty Chica's Art de la Soul: Glittery Ideas to Liven Up Your Life
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Craftivity: 40 Projects for the DIY Lifestyle
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ReadyMade : How to Make [Almost] Everything: A Do-It-Yourself Primer
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The Starving Artist's Way : Easy Projects for Low-Budget Living
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D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself
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The Crafter Culture Handbook
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Knitting and Crochet:

Domiknitrix: Whip Your Knitting into Shape
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Stitch 'N Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook
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Stitch 'N Bitch Nation
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Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker
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Son of Stitch 'n Bitch: 45 Projects to Knit and Crochet for Men
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Alterknits: Imaginative Projects and Creativity Exercises
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Loop-d-Loop: More than 40 Novel Designs for Knitters
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Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks
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Selling Your Craft:

The Small Business Start-Up Kit
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Handmade for Profit!: Hundreds of Secrets to Success in Selling Arts and Crafts
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500 Tips for Marketing Your Crafts
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Business and Legal Forms for Crafts
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Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business
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The Crafts Business Answer Book: Starting, Managing, and Marketing a Homebased Arts, Crafts, or Design Business
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WhatTheCraft Forums - Our forums provide a place where where you can interact with other crafters! ask questions, share projects, and more!
Craftster - Hugely popular craft forums with pretty much every craft related topic under the sun.
Punk Rock Domestics - For the p-rock crafters!
Ravelry - Online knitting community, currently in beta.
Get Crafty
DIYScene

 

WhatTheCraft Blog - Recipes, tutorials, interviews with diyers, and general crafty blathering! Add your site to the Buy + Sell directory and you might get featured in the blog!
Wardrobe Refashion - Join in and reconstruct your wardrobe with others!
Craft Tutorials

My Scrapbook Life
KellesBelles Crafty Life - Check out her patterns for "The Legend of Zelda" Link hat and scarf!!
CraftyCrafty
Twelve22

 

 

 

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