2009 June | Craft Passion: Free Pattern & Tutorial

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June 21, 2009

Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 2: Border Beading

Continue from Part 1: Preparing The Frame & Canvas After having your frame and canvas prepared, shoes-face traced out, the next step is to sew a stretch of beads along the shoes-face outline like the picture shown below. You need: 1. Japanese seed beads size 15/0 for the border 2. Very fine needle so that…

18 Jun

Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 1: Preparing The Frame& Canvas

Ever since I posted my Kasut Manek (beaded shoes) here, I received several emails from readers around the world asking me how to do beading for it. I decided to post some comprehensive tutorials in this area to cover all-you-need-to-know-how-to-bead-a-Kasut-Manek. These tutorials are going to split into 4 parts: Part 1 – Preparing the…

10 Jun

Free Pattern – Crochet Drawstring Bag

I am so glad that my blog’s migration is finally over, phew!!! After numerous sleepless nights fighting against broken links, fine tune the layout (still doing though), adding plugins, widgets, blah blah blah…. I am back to posting again, YAY!!!
As promised, here is my first free pattern for the drawstring bag made from T-shirt yarn, yup, another recycle project for the environment. You can click the image below to get the free pattern link in acrobat .pdf format.

1 Jun

My Whole New Blog Layout

Hi, I am back with my new blog layout, after more than a week of tweaking and fine-tuning, I am proud to launch my new blog platform. Thoug there are still some polishings need to be done but I just can’t wait… I can’t wait until it is perfectly done before I can update my…