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About Family Crafts 
Stop by and share your crafty cleaning tips and read other people's tips! 

Carmi's Art/Life World 
Carmi crafts some pretty flower brooches with a new tool from Clover! 

Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world 
This week at Craftside there is a free tulip quilt block pattern and tutorial, interviews with Susan Strawn author of Knitting America on NPR, Carla Sonheim author of Drawing Lab with details of her workshop at the Etsy Lab in Brooklyn, and a couple of cool DIY sewing tips.

Crafty Princess Diaries 
Tammy's craft club is now slip stitching squares together to make their first baby afghans.

Cross Stitch at About.com 
Connie's dedicating a design to some serious stitchers who are gearing up for some HUGE stitching projects. She reminds them to "Begin with the End in Mind".

Eileen - The Artful Crafter 
Here are directions for making a double strand charm bracelet from Eileen. She made this one for a real life angel. Choose your charms to suit any occasion you like. 

Mixed Media Artist 
Cyndi has a brand new copy of the wonderful book "Scraps" to give away this week! It's a mixed media lover's dream...

Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery 
How to make a recycled color wheel dart board. 

The Crochet Dude 
Drew gives five good reasons why January was a blur! 

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