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  • Appliquecraft businessInspirationPodcastsQuiltingSewingTools_featured

    CraftSanity Podcast Episode 169: How Rosa Rojas, a quilter from Spain helped me improve my appliqué game with her Apliquick tools

    by jennifer September 3, 2015
    by jennifer September 3, 2015

    I’m not easily bamboozled by product pitches that promise life-changing results. After nearly 10 years at the helm of CraftSanity, I’ve seen a…

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    CraftSanity Podcast Episode 157: So what does it take to run a handmade business? Stuffed animal pattern designer Abby Glassenberg offers expert advice

    by jennifer March 3, 2015
    by jennifer March 3, 2015

    So how do you do it? How do you take your love of sewing or knitting or some other skill and turn it into…

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    Reviews: Inspiring craft books to check out as we wait for spring

    by jennifer March 1, 2015
    by jennifer March 1, 2015

    I considered taking some time off to regroup after my weekly newspaper column was canceled, but then I remembered that it’s not my…

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    ‘Pretty Birds’ Blog Tour Q&A with author and pattern designer Virginia Lindsay

    by jennifer February 27, 2015
    by jennifer February 27, 2015

    Hello folks! Today, I’m really excited to bring you a Q&A with Virginia Lindsay, creator of Gingercake Patterns and author of the Gingercake blog.…

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    Free pattern: Sew a little Owl friend from ‘Pretty Birds’ by Virginia Lindsay

    by jennifer February 27, 2015
    by jennifer February 27, 2015

    Reprinted with permission from Pretty Birds © 2015 Virginia Lindsay, Running Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Illustrations by Jess Hibbert.…

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    My Improv Quilt Story: How making a quilt helped me cope with the loss of my newspaper column

    by jennifer February 22, 2015
    by jennifer February 22, 2015

    After nearly 17 years as a reporter and columnist for The Grand Rapids Press and MLive.com, my weekly art and craft column has…

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    CraftSanity Episode 156: Sherri Lynn Wood Talks Improv Quilting

    by jennifer February 20, 2015
    by jennifer February 20, 2015

    If you’re sad about missing QuiltCon, cheer up  because QuiltCon is coming to you during this episode featuring Sherri Lynn Wood, author of “The…

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    CraftSanity Review of the Juki TL-2010Q

    by jennifer January 18, 2015
    by jennifer January 18, 2015

      Love at first stitch? Craft columnist invests in a new sewing machine, still swooning two weeks later By Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood (Read full article…

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    Video Tutorial: How to use the automatic needle threader on the Juki TL-2010Q

    by jennifer January 11, 2015
    by jennifer January 11, 2015

    After years of deliberation and months of pining for this particular machine, I recently purchased a new Juki TL-2010Q. It’s a great machine…

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    Video, instructions: How to make a Minecraft Creeper T-shirt

    by jennifer October 26, 2014
    by jennifer October 26, 2014

    As the mother of a 10-year-old Minecraft addict, pixelated cubes are now a part of my life. When I chaperone school field trips,…

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    CraftSanity Podcast Episode 132: Conversations with ‘Little One-Yard Wonders’ authors Rebecca Yaker and Trish Hoskins

    by jennifer June 29, 2014
    by jennifer June 29, 2014

    This episode of CraftSanity features mini-interviews with Twin Cities authors of “Little One-Yard Wonders: Irresistible Clothes, Toys, and Accessories You Can Make for…

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  • ApronsEnglish Paper PiecingFabricHexagonsSewing

    Lottie Da + True Colors = One Lovely Apron & a Fabric Giveaway!

    by jennifer January 29, 2014
    by jennifer January 29, 2014

    When the nice folks at FreeSpirit invited me to be participate in the True Colors blog tour, I wanted to freeze time and make…

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    It’s Time for the CraftSanity Magazine Issue 7 Pre-order Preview Sale!!

    by jennifer July 11, 2012
    by jennifer July 11, 2012

    Hello! I’m very happy to report that CraftSanity Magazine Issue 7 is at the printer and will be headed to newsstands and mailboxes…

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    The CraftSanity Paper Doll Print Collection!

    by jennifer December 7, 2011
    by jennifer December 7, 2011

    When I started CraftSanity Magazine more than a year ago, I knew I wanted to print a collection of paper dolls with artistic…

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    CraftSanity Magazine Issue 4 Is On Sale!

    by jennifer September 14, 2011
    by jennifer September 14, 2011

    Here it is! The Fall 2011 issue of CraftSanity Magazine is scheduled to hit the streets Sept 21 and I can’t wait to share…

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  • CraftSanity Episode 224: A conversation with Dano Wall, creator of the popular stamp used by thousands to get Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill

    June 19, 2020
  • CraftSanity Episode 223: A conversation with Diana Weymar, creator of the Tiny Pricks Project public art project featuring hundreds of vintage linens embroidered with Trump quotes

    July 21, 2019
  • CraftSanity Episode 222: Learn how to graduate from art school with zero debt and other handmade business savvy things from Dayna Walton, owner of Solstice Handmade

    April 14, 2019

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CraftSanity – A blog and podcast for those who love everything handmade
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