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Creativebug: Hand Darning Techniques

Darning is an artful technique that goes far beyond simple mending. Heidi Parkes, a skilled fiber artist, often uses darning to embellish her beautiful and unique quilts. She adds texture to her creations by weaving threads in neat, straight lines or manipulating the warp and weft to form intricate, decorative shapes. With just a needle and thread, Heidi demonstrates how darning can be a quick and effective way to add dimension to any textile art, or even just a piece of clothing.

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Handmade Holiday Gifts

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Creativebug Blog Post: Your 2024 Handmade Holiday Gift Guide

Handmade gifts always add an unmatched magic to the holiday season. DIY not only gives you the opportunity to make personalized gifts that your loved ones can’t find anywhere else, but it also gives you a moment to slow down and relax into a craft during an often stressful time. These handmade holiday gift ideas range from unique gift cards, to small sewing projects, to knitting up a cozy sweater.

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Creativebug: Woven Fabric Star Ornament

The most fun puzzle you'll construct all holiday season, these cute ornaments are made out of scraps of fabric or even bias tape. Artist and ornament enthusiast Faith Hale talks you through preparing your fabric for folding, constructing the woven star, and then adding a tie for hanging. They're irresistible to make and cute as can be and you'll want to make a dozen.

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Rolled Beeswax Candles

Creativebug Mixtape: Hanukkah Projects

Celebrate Hanukkah with five projects from Creativebug artists. Faith Hale guides you through folding a Star of David origami, taken from her Hanukkah Origami class. The Celebrate the Holidays Daily Practice from Maria Carluccio is a watercolor themed class and you'll see her Hanukkah cat here. Make a watercolor gift tag with Courtney Cerruti, rolled beeswax candles with Cobrina, and a magical unicorn menorah with Suzy Ultman. Please note that there is mistake in the Watercolor Cat Menorah segment: a menorah has eight daily candles, not six as depicted. When you make your sketch and painting, please allow for six candles on your cat.

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Make Mushroom Ornaments with Air-Dry Clay

Pique your clay curiosity by working with an air-dry variety, which doesn't require expensive tools or a kiln. Texas-based painter and potter Cindy Willingham finds inspiration in nature and in this class, she teaches how to sculpt three different kinds of mushrooms. These mushrooms are so whimsical and enchanting, and in the process of making them, you'll learn how to condition, shape, paint, and seal air-dry clay. Plus, add a wire hanging loop to turn your mushrooms into charming ornaments. If you prefer to work with kiln-fired clay, all the hand-building techniques are applicable, and you'll swap out air-drying for kiln-firing and paint/seal for glaze. Discover the secrets of the forest as well as your love of clay.

Creativebug Blog: Make an Heirloom Stocking

Creating heirloom holiday crafts is one of the joys of making things for the people you love. When my daughter was born, the first thing I made her was a Christmas stocking. Using a handful of techniques I gathered from various Creativebug classes, I designed and made my own. It’s always such a pleasure to hang it up and remember all those nights by the Christmas tree stitching it in anticipation of her arrival.

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Trust the Process: An Intermediate Guide for Abstract Painting

Elevate your abstract painting practice with fine artist Abby Houston. Before diving into this intermediate course, we recommend exploring Abby's Abstract Art Making Daily Practice, where you'll build a solid foundation of techniques. In this class, Abby guides you through the creation of two finished abstract artworks. You’ll begin by learning how to stretch your own canvas, then follow her as she works on two paintings side by side—one in warm tones and one in cool tones. She leads you through building layers of color, intention, and decision-making to achieve your desired result. This practice-based approach encourages curiosity and risk-taking while staying grounded, embracing mistakes, and trusting the creative process.

Introducing CbMixtapes: playlists made of specific bits from different classes and grouped together by a common theme. It's a fun way to learn how one topic is approached by a variety of artists with different techniques, all rounded up in one curated mixtape.

Here at Creativebug we love to take the theme of Thanksgiving - gratitude - and reflect upon it all month long. In this selection of classes you'll find exercises, sketchbook activities, and projects all devoted to the theme. Thanksgiving Gratitude, Common Themes, Prince William, Mixtape, Gratitude, To Learn, Sketch Book, Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Gratitude

Creativebug Mixtape: Gratitude

Introducing CbMixtapes: playlists made of specific bits from different classes and grouped together by a common theme. It's a fun way to learn how one topic is approached by a variety of artists with different techniques, all rounded up in one curated mixtape. Here at Creativebug we love to take the theme of Thanksgiving - gratitude - and reflect upon it all month long. In this selection of classes you'll find exercises, sketchbook activities, and projects all devoted to the theme.

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Creativebug: Make a Pin Cushion and Needle Case

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Creativebug–Garment Sewing: Design Details

Free with your library card! Once you're comfortable with the basics of garment sewing, it's time to explore design details. Amanda Todaro, a sewing educator with Ditto patterns, demonstrates an array of techniques to add to your clothes-making toolkit: making straps, sewing facings, sewing buttonholes and buttons, creating skirt vents, attaching a lining to a zipper, sewing swing tacks, and making shirt collars. Feel confident about implementing these skills when you come across them in sewing patterns, and consider how to use them creatively to make your garments unique to you.

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Creativebug Mixtape: Hocus Pocus

Free with your library card! It's spooky season and time to cconjure up all things witchy, spooky, and magical. Begin your multimedia exploration by crocheting a witch's hat with Twinkie Chan. Paint a frog in gouache with Jen Orkin Lewis, then try your hand at stamp carving by making a magical starbust with Lisa Solomon. Lisa Congdon demonstrates how to paint an inky moth, and learn a gorgeous monoprint technique by painting flickering candles with Courtney Cerruti.

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Knit Fabrics

Creativebug: Garment Sewing with Knits: An Introduction

Free with your library card! Sewing with stretchy knit fabrics is a bit different than sewing with wovens. Amanda Todaro, a sewing educator from Ditto patterns, gives you an introduction to creating garments with knits, beginning with learning about the different stretches in fabrics, sewing your projects, setting in a shirt sleeve, finishing hems with mock cover stitch, and adding a finished neckband. And while a serger is a knit garment's best friend, learn how you can create most knit garments using only your sewing machine. Less

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Woven Fabrics

Creativebug: Garment Sewing with Woven Fabrics: Finishings and Hems

Free with your library card! For professional-looking garments, you'll want the inside to look as fabulous as the outside. Amanda Todaro, a sewing educator from Ditto patterns, teaches you how to finish your seams with a sewing machine or a serger as well as four ways to sew hems, including making and applying your own bias tape. Not only will your projects look neat and tidy, but you'll also be giving them greater durability and longevity.

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