Lark Crafts

Father’s Day is only days away, what better way to celebrate Dad’s special day than with felt moustaches that you can make not only for Dad, but the entire family! This project is very easy to make with few materials, and doesn’t take much time either. So grab some felt, thread, and elastic and start making moustaches! Download the free PDF here: Manly Moustaches

The Manly Moustaches project comes from the book Heart-Felt Holidays. If you enjoy making felt projects and things for holidays, this is the book for you.

I hope everyone has a safe and memorable Father’s Day!

Sweet, delicious, yummy donuts. Or if you’re a purist: doughnuts. Plain, with chocolate frosting, cake, cream or jelly filled, with sprinkles, any way you can get them, you know you love them. To help you show the world your donut love, here is a list of some of our favorite Etsy projects. And be sure to visit the poll at the end of this post: Krispy Kreme vs Dunkin’ Donuts! And no, I’m not biased. Really. Most importantly, don’t forget to visit your local participating donut shops for a FREE DONUT!!!

Credits, each column top to bottom starting at left: Chocolate Doughnut Pincushion by cyrillascrochet • Donut Ring by shimrita • Ceramic Doughnut Coin Bank by modclay • Needle Felted Jelly Doughnut Ornament by fuzzefood • Scented Sprinkled Strawberry Donut Necklace by BabyLovesPink • Donut Pillow by mypillowfactory • Stack of Donuts Miniature Clay Figurine by InkedGoddess • Donut Fascinator Headband by prettygoodthings • Chocolate Frosted Donut Studs by shayaaron • Solid Glass Mini Chocolate Donut Paperweight by TheMELTkitchen • Shameless & Insatiable Wall Embroidery by BackstitchPass • Pink Donut Bracelet by Zjakazumi • Sugarstrand Iced Doughnut Brooch by ChuckyEggJewellery • Yummy Chocolate Diet Donut Magnet by DanielleLondon • Donut Soaps by AubreyEApothecary • A Dozen Donuts Scarf by EEFashions • Donut Stop Dancing Shoes by mnmbeautyemporium • Pink Donut Print with Sprinkles Retro Apron by mamamadison

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Throughout the month of June, we’re celebrating Martha Sielman’s latest project, Art Quilt Portfolio: People & Portraits. Filled with stitched portraits, appliqued memorials, and photograph-quality quilted imagery, People & Portraits presents the work of 21 featured artists and seven spectacular galleries — happiness, contemplation, community, icons, family & friends, work, and play — revealing a rich variety of techniques, styles, and creative visions.

Join us as we celebrate this stunning compilation! Follow along the tour for book giveaways, interviews with Martha and some of the featured artists, insights from the artists, and more. To get things started, we’re hosting a giveaway today (read below for more info).

Blog Tour Schedule
June 4th – LarkCrafts.com kickoff – you’ve arrived!

June 5th – Sarah Ann Smith

June 6th – Maria Elkins

June 7th – Laura Wasilowski

June 9th – Katherine McNeese

June 10th – Cheryl Sleboda

June 11th – Linda McLaughlin

June 12th – Kathy Nida

June 13th – Marilyn H. Wall

June 14th – Janice Paine Dawes

June 16th – Pamela Price Klebaum

June 17th – Deborah Boschert

June 18th – Lisa Chin

June 19th – Sue Bleiweiss

June 20th – Leni Wiener

June 21st – Sherry Davis Kleinman

June 24th – Cheryl Lynch

June 25th – Lesley Riley

June 26^th – Stephanie Forsyth

June 30th – Pat Kumicich

And now for the good stuff! Comment on this post for a chance to win a copy of both books in the Art Quilt Portfolio series: The Natural World and People & Portraits. Simply leave a comment on this post by 11:59 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 6, 2013. One winner will be selected at random from among all eligible entries on Friday, June 7. Click here for the official rules. Thanks to everyone who commented! This giveaway is now closed: a winner has been selected and contacted. Please follow along the blog tour for more chances to win!

Summer break is just around the corner, so it’s time to start thinking about fun and creative things to do with the kids! Making an adorable Sock Monkey is the perfect way to start off summer break. This is a project that your child will enjoy all summer long. Click here to download the PDF of the Sock Monkey project.

This project comes from the book Craft Hope, which celebrates crafting for a cause. If you and your kids are looking for ways to give back this summer, Craft Hope is filled with ideas about creating for a good cause.

School’s almost out for summer, folks! Are you ready? And are you looking to embark on creative adventures of the sewing variety with your little bundles? Since the day I found out miss Ruby was on her way, I’ve been excited to share my love of sewing with her. My mom taught me to sew, and I can’t wait to do the same. But 10 months is a bit too young to start teaching my little lady how to sew: she probably needs to master other important life skills – you know, fine motor skills, crawling, feeding herself, etc. – before we partake in creative togetherness. When the times comes, though, I’ll be ready with the help of these lovely sewing projects for kids.

Stitch a lovely rainbow, easy peezy on burlap: Sewing Rainbows (from Childhood 101)

Put on a show with a herd of bunny puppets: Bunny Finger Puppet (from Spoonful)

Make a drawstring bag for trinkets and treasures: Drawstring Bag (from Make and Takes)

Craft a flock of birdies: Bean Bag Birds (from Captain Crafty)

Stitch a zoo-full of critter cards: Sewing Cards (from Dandee Designs)

Sew some sweet heart bookmarks for Valentines and beyond: Valentine Bookmarks (from Holiday Crafts and Creations)

Fashion a headband perfect for summer: How to Sew a Headband (from Skip to my Lou)

Repurpose a tee-shirt into a bag: T-shirt Bag (from Make and Takes)

Take your sewing on the road: Alligator Sewing Kit (from Spoonful) 

Have you ever taken a craft class? Yes? Then you know there’s something magical about learning something new, hearing about someone else’s creative process, and putting energy into your own creative pursuits. And if not, here’s your chance!

Now through May 23rd, you can enter to win a free class with the fine folks at Craftsy! They have all kinds of online crafty classes – knitting, crochet, sewing, cake decorating – and they’re offering a fabulous new quilting class all about foundation piecing: Precision Piecing taught by award-winning quilter Norah McMeeking. In a series of 9 HD video lessons, you’ll learn the basic techniques, tips, troubleshooting, and more. You can take the class on your own time and revisit it again and again for tips and hints along the way. And best of all: you don’t have to lug your sewing machine and supplies anywhere! Set up in your own space and learn at your own pace.

Click here to follow the link and enter. You’ll need to create a Craftsy login to enter…and (bonus!) you’ll get access to a mini class when you do.  Thanks to everyone who entered. This giveaway is now closed and the winner has been contacted. 

In Printing on Fabric, Jen Swearington covers everything fabric lovers need to know about printing fabric by hand. She starts by translating design ideas to into print ideas, moves on to simple transfers with various stenciling methods, and addresses all the options beyond ink when it comes to printing on fabric (including dye baths, bleach resists, and more).

Oh, and there are all sorts of projects to accompany the lessons, from trendy tote bags and baby rompers to classy cardigans and home decor.

But what about all those scraps you end up with after making a project? She’s got that covered as well, thanks to a couple scrap-friendly ideas. One is the quilt you can see on the cover, and the other is a fun, mailable mini mobile.

Here’s what Jen has to say about it: This anti e-mail surprise is a fun way to harvest bits of imagery from your scrap fabrics, drop cloths, and masking papers. I wanted to make sure it could be mailed, so I started with the envelope and designed the mobile to fit inside it. Be sure to write the words “Hand Cancel” on the envelope so it doesn’t get mangled in a mail-processing machine. Better yet, take it to the post office counter since it might take an extra stamp or two in postage.

Download the project, complete with templates, right here: Mail a Mini Mobile

My five-year-old daughter is really into growing things. She loves digging in the dirt and watching as the seeds she planted sprout and mature into vegetables and flowers. This spring, she got her very own raised bed and was told she could plant anything she wanted:

Yep. She promptly planted herself. I can’t say I blame her — there’s something about a sunny spring day that just makes you want to get as close as possible to the warm, fresh earth.

To celebrate the joys of gardening, we’re giving away a bounty of garden-related motifs from Aimee Ray’s Doodle Stitching: The Motif Collection! Use them to embellish your gardening totes or gloves, a kitchen towel, or a set of napkins. Click here to get a free PDF full of motifs of peas, asparagus, strawberries, a flower, and more!

And, by the way, my daughter didn’t stay planted in her bed for long — she’s now growing tarragon, tomatoes, and oregano in her little plot of earth!