Chadis Crafts's Fun Pages
Needlecraft Page:
Fabric Crafts, Knitting,
Crocheting,Quilting, Embroidery, Sewing, No Sew Projects
and more!
My Braiding and Needlecraft pages were getting to
big. I have finally given my Needlecraft links their own page! For Braiding,
gymp and laceing see my see my Braiding pages.
Eileen's FUN
Eyelash and Speciality Yarn Projects
Great, Quick Projects for All
Level Knitters and Crocheters.
SEWING FABRIC BOWLS
Bowl Made and Offered for sale by
Lori's Crafts
The latest in fabric craft crazes!
Sewing fabric bowls.
The books offered on this page can get you started.
If you have not seen
or heard of these bowls they are really incredible.Sewn in
multiple layers of print material.
They are reversible and
usually washable.
Cloth is fused to a stiff material called Timtex
and then machine sewn with colored threads like you make darts. To
see examples of bowls for sale see my friend Lori's Crafts  Lori now has
pictures of her fabric boxes. I love the Fabric Recipe Boxes and Fabric "Chinese Take
Out" Boxes.
She has been
busy working on making her own full website. So check out her
official web site! http://www.loriscrafts.com
Links
about fabric bowls and fabric
Home
and Garden TV's Fabulous Fabric Bowls
Free Instructions and supply
sources.sewnew.com's Bowled
over
More instructions and resources.
kayewood.com
Kaye Wood's Quilting
Friends! on PBS will be offering lessons on fabric bowls
Kayewood.com offers
quilting supplies, lessons and tips. 
Fabric.com Coupon Corner
Interfacings, fusibles, and stabilizers at Fabric.com
Great source for fabric, sewing notions, patterns and more
Sewing Juice Pouch Purses and
Crafts
AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT IS JUST DISCOVERING THIS
CRAFT?You use Kool-Aid, Capri Sun and other juice pouch packages to sew
pocket books, belts, wallets, coin purses and more. I guess as I refuse to
sew I never noticed these. Really Cute!
For those that have asked me to
find directions, here they are.
About.com's Juice Pouce purses links
some of the links
don't work but there are great links to directions on this site. Kool-aid coin purses
Short page on making coin pursesNeedlepointers.com's Kid's Corner Juice Bag Purse and
more
Has a lot of great lessons/patterns for you to use.Any one
have pictures that I can use?
NO SEW
PROJECTS
For those like myself that do not use sewing machines.
(Or irons if I can help it!)
No Sew Yarn Easter Eggs
Yarn Easter Eggs by Lion Brand Yarn Company
Cover
Styrofoam eggs with yarn. Easy gluing project. Great way to use up scrap yarn.
Love the boucle' yarn eggs!
Fleece-Embellished Flip
Flops
Crafts @ joann.com!
No sew free project at Joann.com
They even sell bags of fleece pieces so you don't have to CUT!
Hancock Fabrics Free Project pages
Fun With Fleece Projects
Has many projects that require no
sewing! If you visit one of there stories you may even find a free booklet with
all of these patterns printed out for you. I bought material and inspired by
Lori of Lori's
Original Fabric Crafts I plan to make some No-Sew pillows to match the Twice
Warm Fleece Blanket she made for me. They say you can make a pillow in about 30
minutes! You cut two squares of fleece and with a scissor or rotary cutter you
just cut fringe stips all around the square and tie together. These are not the
full directions but you get the idea! Besides the new sew blankets and pillows
don't miss the
No-Sew frindged Purse!
FRINGED SCARFI have seen people make No-Sew Fringed Scarfs
that were fringed all around. It looked real cute. The fringe can be done
short strips but also long. It is an interesting look can't describe it but reminds me
of a boa. Just depends on how wide you make the scarf and how long you cut the
strips to tie into fringe.
Eileen's Knit Tips
 
Can't knit on circular needles or can't knit
at all?
Try using Knifty Knitter Looms for making hats.
Knifty Knitter
from Joann.com
The directions were not great for
making the hats but there are booklets to help you.
I used the next to
largest loom for adult hats. I really liked the Red Heart acrylic yarn that self
stripes and has camouflage colors by Bernat and Red Heart
This is the same yarn as the hat.
The
striping just works better in short rows.
Loom knitting books from Amazon.com
Needlecrafts and Yarn
Sources
Some with Free Projects:
Jo-ann.com Has many free lessons inclucing yarn and sewing
projects. They also sell many needlecraft, fabric and yarn
products. They sell their own brand of yarn including some fun furs and boucle'.
They also sell ladder and ribbon yarn. They carry many brands including: Lion,
Bernat, Patons, Lily, Coats and Clark, Caron, Moda Dea etc. Here are links I thought you might find useful from Jo-ann.com
Sale on Yarns Now!
They seem to have a new sweepstake ever month or so!
No
purchase necessary.Check out Moda Dea
Yarns!
They also have free patterns for crocheting fun fur
flip-flops.
Lion Brand Pattern
 Can't crochet? Eileen will crochet one for you.
See chadiscrafts.com
The CraftyNeedle (California
Stitchery)
As California Stitchery and Crafty Needle they had been in business for over 20
years. Now Crafty Needle has new owners and moved to Florida. Lots of new things. You'll
find: stamped cross stitch, counted cross stitch, crewel embroidery,
paint by number, longstitch, crochet, latch hook, and any other kind of
stitchery here. They also do custom designs. They also have a large selection of
Jewish kits. They
are constantly adding more designs to their extensive collection of
handpainted needlepoint kits for Tallis Bags and Tallis (attarahs)collars.
Create for less.com
Has great resource/craft advise by Maria Nerius plus a great store with discount
prices.
 They carry the new Linea Embellishment Fabric Kits.
(see DMC
Threads below for more info on this new needlecraft line.)
See yarn
companies below, my eyelash yarn pages and my supply source pages for more
stores and companies for supplies.
NEEDLEWORK LINKS:
Elaine's
Craft Corner's Knit & Crochet Patterns
She has patterns many for
Christmas including a wreath pin. She also has a crochet "watch" Cap. She has great craft recipes too, see
my other pages for more links.
C is for Crochet
(A-G) and C is for Crochet .
(H-Z) Has hundreds of patterns and links for crocheting.
Crochet Partners Patterns
Library.
A huge collection of free crochet patterns.
Just Plain Fun Crochet
Club.
Sells patterns to members but also has many of free crochet patterns and lessons. Including some very
unusual crocheted jewelry.
Patty's
Filet and Crocheting Page
Patty's Crocheting lessons is a great source for
adults and teens. Pages of directions and pictures.
CD2000
Crocheting and Lace projects mounted on CD's. This was a special exhibit in
England with people for many countries participating. I am listing this one just to
inspire you!
Smartcrochet.com
Some free patterns
and lessons plus a way to buy patterns.
Crocheting
with beads.
CrochetKim.com
I meant to list this
site a long time ago. It has a huge list of links to lessons & patterns. Some
of the patterns are free some for sale. Also offers help
finding crochet items for sale especially for weddings.
Hancock Fabrics Free Project pages
Holiday projects
(Mostly Christmas), Home
decor, Quilting, Apparel, Crafts, Fun with Fleece and more!
HGTV's Needle craft project lists
Crocheting, embroidery,
Japanese Needlecrafts, Knitting,Needlepoint, Ribbons and more. Hundreds of
projects and lessons.
Links To Yarn Companies That Have Free Patterns:
See my Jewish Resources Page and my Supply Pages for links to needlepoint and other craft supply
companies.
Coats
and Clark.com's Free Lessons
Sewing, Knitting, Crocheting and more. Plus
check out their Educator's programs. They now sell eyelash
yarn under their own name and a new name. Moda-Dea. Foxy is one of Coats and
Clark's eyelash yarn. Moda-Dea yarns has free patterns, just click on the picture
on the page I have linked to for a
printable sheet like you see in the stores.
Moda Dea Yarn Crocheted Rose Pins
South West Trading
CompanyGreat yarns and patterns. Company also
makes and sells yarn made from soy and corn! Check out their Soy Yarn Teddy
Bears and Rabbits they sell.
SWTC soysilk.com's free patterns
Lion Brand YarnSince
1878.This is one of the companies selling the "fun fur"/eye lash thread for the scarfs that
everyone seems to be crazy about. Including me! I have crocheted a few and now
knitting one. I will include pictures soon. I have found this yarn in many
stores. Free
Knitting and Crocheting
Patterns Many free patterns and projects for adult and children sizes.
Clothing and fun accessories. A few of the "Fun Fur" Projects: Available for knitting or
crocheting bags, coats, scarfs and more. Free Knitted Chemo Cap
Pattern for Fun Fur.
Of course it can be used for anyone wanting a fur hat.
But for those of us that have had friend's who needed Chemo Caps this is
adorable. This comes with two patterns for straight needles or double pointed
needles. A crocheted chemo cap pattern is coming. check out their patterns for kids. Most are for the
teens/children to knit and crochet themselves. Check out the pocket pets! ( I
have pictures of them on my Eyelash yarn project
pages
Straw.com
Yarn company that sells Crystal
Palace
Yarns. Eye lash yarns and more! They have really great pictures of their yarn. See:
online sample cards of
there yarns
Free Patterns and info on where to buy Crystal Palace and other yarns. Great
yarns for making eyelash scarfs. They have many other
free scarf
patterns using many different yarns. If you know which of their yarns you want to use check out this free
pattern index.
Fuzzy Galore's
Scarf plus other free
patterns.
Bernat.com
Bernat yarn
also has many different kinds of yarn including eyelash yarn called Boa and Eye Lash. They have free patterns for
scarfs and other things for crocheting and knitting but you have to sign in as
a member to get the full directions. You do have to give personal information
to do this.
Sugar'n Cream Yarn by
Lily
Also has free patterns for knitting and crocheting using their yarn. Your
membership in Bernat.com works for both.
DMC Thread Company
This company that has been around over 100 years has some
great web pages. It makes threads for
needlework. Crocheting, knitting, needlepoint, etc. Their web site has many
great links and free projects.
Dmc-usa's Beginner's
index.
Crochet
projects.Project
of the Month.Cross
stitch projects.Gifts to
make.Crafts to make with
threads.
DMC Thread. Linea
Kits.
Linea by DMC is a new approach to stitched embellishment, and a creative way
to personalize a favorite fashion or home decor item. They have scarf kits,
pocketbooks and pillow kits plus stencils to use on your own items.
They say it is super simple and quick to do.
Berroco.com's ( yarn company) free pattern
Jelly
Yarn
Vinyl Yarn to Knit and
Crochet
Jelly Yarn is not cord or flat lanyard but round pliable vinyl
that is specially formulated for knitting and crochet. Authors Kathleen and
Nick Greco wanted something different, cool, and modern. They introduced a new
yarn under their Yummy Yarns brand: Jelly Yarn. Available in Fine and Bulky
weights, there are 9 translucent and opaque colors aptly named: Black Licorice,
Blue Taffy, Pink Parfait, Raspberry Sorbet, Lemon-Lime, Ice, Hot Pink Candy,
Orange Sherbet, Ice and Honey Gold. The yarn is ideal for fashion accessories,
and patterns are available for purses, handbags, beach and market bags,
belts, bracelets, and even flip-flops. The resulting knit fabric is a glossy
texture that is retro with a techno flair. Jellyyarns.com
Designer and company that sells the yarn,
patterns and kits. Also has free tips and pattern for jelly purse.Jelly
Yarn Boa Purse Free Pattern - pdf file
TIPS:
Suggestions are made to knit using metal knitting needles,
so I tried crocheting with metal crochet hooks.
They suggest you double the
yarn on pocketbooks.
 Eileen's Hand
Crocheted U2 Ipod Case
Using about a half a ball of
Yummy Yarn's Fine Lemon
Lime Jelly YarnOf course with my love of working
with plastic/vinyl, I
had to try knitting and crocheting with this new yarn. Of course that also meant I was curious if a tighter stitch would make items more
cost effective.
Seemed to work.
I was in a fun mood, so I tried crocheting
a Ipod case for my son's 20gig Ipod
I found that I used
a very large metal crocheting needle and it was too large. The case would stretch out of shape when I pulled the
Ipod out of the case a few times.
I
plan to try some other projects soon.
(I really want the new gold metallic!)
It was fun working with the yarn.
Knitting Machines
Bond Ultimate sweater machine. They have lots of tips and
free lessons on the manufactures pages.
From my
research it seems the best buy is to buy the deluxe model. It comes with an
extension, counter and the attachment to make designs into your knitting.
You can buy it from the manufacturer, Joann.com and Allbrands.com.
For
some of the little extra accessories and little tools you will have to go to
Bond the manufacturer.Eileen just treated
herself for the holidays to a DELUXE ULTIMATE
SWEATER MACHINE.
Can't wait to try it out but it will have to wait until I
finish
moving furniture around my house to make room for a table to use it!
Just
moved my 90 year old mother from Boston to Virginia and into my house.
Jewish NeedlecraftsFinally getting long enough to seperate
into a group of it's own!
Blogs on Jewish
Crafts/Needlecrafts
JudaicaJournal
by Dr. Mom. Wife, Mother, Doctor, Artist.
Has a blog with incredible pictures
of Judica including
needlecrafts and Jewish Embroidery.
Great inspiration.
Jewish Needlecrafts
resources:
Allbrands.com also sells embroidery designs including
the following Jewish CD
 Chanukah designs cd
 Hebrew font CD
Joann.com
 Search on Jewish for machine embroidery designs to
buy for:
Dreidel,Menorah, Star of David and Hanukkah
Fabric.com Coupon Corner
Search on Alexander Henry Fabric for some Jewish Fabric.
They
make new Jewish Fabric every year.
Judaiquilt.com
Resources and Links for Jewish Fabric
crafts.
Supply sources, pattern sites and more!
A great resource
page.
Sandra
Lynne's Gallery for Judaic Crafts
This site has lists of Jewish
Needlework:
sites, patterns, instructions, photos and ideas.
Judaic Crafts
a Chez Alaine
Diagrams including many Hebrew Alphabets counted out
and some patterns for
popular words in Hebrew.
Biaclac's
Judaiccraftshome.com
Sells their own hand made Jewish kits for:
needlepoint,
cross-stitch and ceramic bisque.
MAPdesigns
A needle work
studio that produces kits for stores.
She has links to stores that carry her
products.
She has a wide range of beginner kits including a few Jewish
ones.
6millionstitches
Gallery of many Jewish needlecrafts:
Quilts, needlepoint, counted cross stitch,
samplers,ribbon embroidery, silk
sewing tallit,
off loom bead weaving,crocheted yarmulkahs,
knitting and more
in very unique projects.
They give instructions, basicly for free,
they just
ask you give a $1.00 donation
to the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
A great cause to
donate to!
stiches
by sueJudaic machine embroidery patterns. Incredible! Some free. Some
great sets to buy.
Lion brand yarn felted afikomen bag.
Knitted pattern using
wool that is then felted.
The process where you wet wool so it shrinks together
into a piece of fabric.
Lion brand even has a stencil for the HEBREW letters!
Wonderful seeing this online!
Interweave
Knits Magazine's
Summer 2007 edition (on stands May
27, 2007)
It has a knit lace Chuppah pattern by
Kat Coyle
HGTV's Needlepoint Dreidel
Alphabet
Charts
Sandralynn.com's Judaicraft list Hebrew alphabet chartsFor
beading but can be used for needlecrafts
This is the first site you should
look for needlecraft and Jewish needlecraft patterns etc
Loom
Beading English Alphabet charts by Rings-things.com
Although printed for
bead looming the same chart can be used by counting for cross stitch, crocheting
and knitting names into designs and yarmulkahs
Yarmulkah
PatternsFirst stop of patterns etc (as listed above) go to:
Sandra Lynne's
Galery of Judaic Crafts
Thanks to Ilana from the J-Craft
group for finding some of the links
in this list of yarmulkah
patterns.
Knitted:
Kippah patterns by Jennifer Tocker
More knitted kippot from Jennifer
Tocker
Knitted pattern for Bukharin Yarmulkah
From k2p2 Rebecca's
Knitting Blog
Keppie pattern Bukaharan style from Woolywonder.com
Yarnaholic Confessions Knitting kippot
Great advice on
yarn and stitches for fancier kippot.
Crocheted:Chadis Crafts and Kippot
My other
site.
Although this is my business site and does not
have patterns,
it does show pictures of
crocheted Kippot/Yarmulkas.
Remember the designs are copy protected
They
may inspire your own designs.
Chadis Crafts' Fun Pages- Scouting Pages
Chart for adding Boy Scout emblem and initials
into a crocheted
yarmulkah. By Arlene Bernhardt.
Crocheted yarmulkah
By Hilary Murphy
The Accidental Kippah
Shoshi'e Crocheted Scarf liner (Yarmulkah like)
Star
of David Yarmulkah by Malca Bayzman
6millionstitches
Gallery of many Jewish needlecrafts.
It
has a few unique ladies yarmulkahs with patterns .
(see their Ladies Lace with directions page 2)
They give instructions, basicly for free,
they just
ask you give a $1.00 donation to the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
A great cause to
donate to!
Shalom
Boston.com's
Fishy Boy's Stars & Stripes Kippah
By Karla Hailer-Fidelman
Crochet Partners' Yarmulka designed by Ruth
Wenig
Crochet Partners moved to a yahoo group. You will have to join,
it's free, to get to this pattern
Crochetpatty.com's doiles
For those that want headcovers that
look like doiles. Here are some actual doily patterns. These are beautiful.
Some have rounded edges but others can be made round if you want.
More doily patterns by Patty
Some uses yarn others cotton threads, you
can choice which you want for either.
See amazon books listed below for yarmulkah pattern design
book.
THE CLASSIC for adding border designs,
names in English and Hebrew and
more.
Hand painted kit:
Hand painted
kippah kits by Judaic Art Kits
The CraftyNeedle (California
Stitchery)
As California Stitchery, they been in business for over 20 years.
You'll
find: stamped cross stitch, counted cross stitch, crewel embroidery,
paint by number, longstitch, crochet, latch hook, and more.
They also do custom designs.
They also have a large selection of
Jewish kits.
They
are constantly adding more designs to their extensive collection
of
handpainted needlepoint kits for Tallis Bags and Tallis (attarahs)collars.
They
also have kits and patterns for needlepoint, crocheted and other
Yarmulkahs.
Wire KippotAlthough not needle crafts like the rest
of this page, I wanted to list these with other patterns for yarmulkahs out
there on the web.
Byado
Kippot's wire and bead yarmulkah instructions
One of the many crafts
people selling hand crafted kippot has generously offered instructions for those
that want to try one themselves. Of course as what often happens with most crafts, unless you are
making many of them, the cost of supplies and tools seems to suggest you are
better off buying one of her lovely ones. Especially with a craft like this that
has costly materials that
can be ruined in your early attempts.
Have a pattern or craft to share?
I am always looking for new patterns and
crafts to post on my site.
Giving you credit of course.
Jewish
Software.com
Shop their store for a full line of Educational and Recreational
Jewish software.
Some of the pictures and clip art they sell can be digitized for your
embroidery machines if you already own a digitizer.
Create for Less
Create for less has great craft, needlecrafts and felting supplies.
Including:
all of the new
Clover felting applique molds
felting claw (to clean the mats) and felting tools at great prices.
They have
over 200 felting kits and supplies!
ALLBRANDS.COM
AllBrands.com Janome and New Home Sewing Machines and Sergers.
Allbrands.com
More coupon codes:
rebate15 to take $15 off
your next purchase of $299.
rebate30 to take $30 off
your next purchase of
$599 or more.
rebate60 to take $60 off
your next purchase of $1199 or more.
Coupons expire May 17th, 2008.
Coupons valid on select items onlyFeatured Product from
ALLBRANDS.COM:
Check out this needle punch felting machine!
Featured Products
from Joann.com
Check out
these special codes just for Chadis Craft's Visitors:
Yummy yarns and kits are now sold at Joann.com
in both bulky and fine weights.Just click on yarn by brand and Yummy Yarns
are on the list.
More knitting Looms from Joann.com
Zoom Loom 3'' Round - Many Styles
Mitten Knitting Loom
Ultimate knitting machine now on sale at Joann.com!
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I have bought many books this way and have been
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Fast Fun &
Easy Bowls, Easy Boxes and
Easy Vases
Books by Linda
Johnson
Other Books For Making
Bowls, Bags and Fusing Fun
BOOKS ON FABRIC ORIGAMI
AND
JAPANESE FABRIC GIFTS(Omiyage)
In honor of my son studying Japanese Lessons in High
School,
I am increasing the Japanese Crafts on my site.
See my Fun pages and my General Crafts
pages
for more on Origami using paper.
If you search on Fabric folding,
you will find even more books at Amazon.com for
quilters etc.
Books by Kathleen Greco The following books can be bought from
Amazon.com. She uses eyelash yarn and other speciality yarns. They
have great descriptions of the different kinds of speciality yarns including the
new jelly yarns.These books are being sold extremely reduced for the used ones in a few Amazon merchant stores.
Great
bargain and great additions to your knitting libraries.
Kathleen's newest book.
Great first book for a mother or grandmother and
teen knitting session.
Perfect teen/preteen projects using exciting
yarns.
Pictures show beginning stitches, vocabulary and more.
See my Eyelash and
Fun Fur Pages
for more information about crocheting Leis with eyelash
yarn.
Check out the wool felted knitted bags that Eileen
made.
They are for sale on her business
site.
Chadiscrafts.com's felted bags
  
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