Living Crafts Magazine - Summer 2010

Find unique designs for sewing a hammock and camping accessories. Knitting projects include cotton vests for boys and girls and an adorable doll jumper with matching hat. Felt a lily pad playmat complete with lily pads and flowers. Read how to enhance your child's fine finger control in Elizabeth Seward's Extreme Knotting article. Craft a wood utensil tree for the kitchen. Construct and weave on a year round garden loom. Enjoy this issue's story from Suzanne Down, The Sea Stars, and the accompanying project for a wet-felted story world. Get up-to-date on knitting retreats around the country and more!

Living Crafts Magazine - Spring 2010

Spring 2010 features an article on fiber farm life and insight into the lambing process. Suzanne Down tells a wonderful Easter egg story with wooly props. Joanne Seiff writes an article on the Purim Festival and includes a simple knitting project. Also find soap making, a quilt project, a knitted blanket for a new baby, a knitted doll for big sister or brother, and a farm playmat felted by children and put together by parents (inspiration to have a felting party this spring). Colorful Kaffe Fasset is this issue's Sage.

Living Crafts Magazine - Winter 2010

Craft a silk angel mobile, a starchild and Christmas ornaments. Make your child a portable chalkboard, holiday crown or knit a wool jacket. Crochet elegant earrings for yourself or a gift. Learn the art of stumpwork and make a beautiful holiday brooch designed by Jane Nicholas. The Winter 2010 issue of Living Crafts is full of seasonal projects for the whole family!

In this issue - make papier mache puppets with children, needle felt a playscape, create a scene of felt gnomes in autumn, knit gnome caps, sew a patchwork handbag, hand paint yarn with children using food coloring, browse the annual fiber directory and more in the fall issue of this popular natural crafts magazine.

In this issue, knit a luxurious beaded summer scarf that is really a necklace or knit a classic men’s tie or the boy’s rooster tie (designed by Nicky Epstein), for the special guy in your life. Also, let’s crochet a sun hat for everyone in the family. The Craft a Story column presents you with a snail puppet made out of wool, and Our Tribe features a story of women knitting on a reunion. In addition, you’ll learn the simple and easy art of mosaic, making stepping stones for your garden this summer. To add more finishing touches to your backyard, how about a fairy garden? Other projects include a nuno-felted bag, two beautiful versions of a child’s horse rein and harness for summer play, and much more.

With a focus on Easter, Spring and Mother's Day there's lots to love in this issue! Felted flowers from Rainbow River Designs, weaving with children, seed balls for your garden, sewn bunnies, a felted hand puppet from Suzanne Down, a practical wood project and even more. The beginner knitter will love the easy to knit then felt Whole Heart Baby Sling and for the intermediate knitter there's  a pattern from Sally Melville for a sheer and classy Classic Shirt. If you're in the market for organic fabrics, look no more as the latest sources for organic textiles are revealed.

Many of you will choose to make the heirloom hobby horse, using socks or for those of you who love felting, wool roving. Either way, you can create this intricately designed hobby horse to be cherished by the children in your family for many generations to come. In addition, you’ll learn the simple and easy art of making beeswax candles with fruits and nut shells, guaranteed to make your table magical. Other projects include holiday bird ornaments sewn from wool felt, a knitted snowman, and felted Angel pouch for your holiday greeting cards.

"This season, we celebrate lush foliage and the garden harvest with joyful projects. All are made of wool or other natural materials bound to bring autumn inspiration to you and your family."

There are three projects for keeping your children’s heads warm this season: a knitted elf cap, a gnome hat, and crowns made of wool felt in three gorgeous styles: a royal crown, a flower crown, and a mushroom crown. The  adorable, easy and inexpensive to make felt gnome hat can be sized for boys and girls of any age. In addition, you'll find patterns for mother-daughter Saturday Morning Sweaters or spend a day making tree branch buttons in the woodshop with a father and daughter.  Or learn the simple and easy art of painting with wool. Craft a Story features a hedgehog family and their autumn harvest with craft projects to go with it.

This issue features a Little Red Riding Hood knitted cape along with 3 different baskets: one woven, one lined with fabric, and the other crocheted with red leather cord. For your favorite dad you'll find patterns for both a vest and slippers. Hand felt a fish, sew from felt a playful seal, create a nuno felted silk chiffon Fairy Summer Scarf. Make a drawstring backpack to carry suggested items for family trips, spend a summer day natural dyeing, even learn how to make your own stilts for less than $10 this summer, and more.

Enjoy a variety of projects from knitting, sewing, woodwork, beadwork, and wool doll making in this, the second issue of the best and only natural craft magazine around! Included are simple projects for beginners and children, like making wool butterflies and knitted bunnies. Something for everyone.

The Premier Issue includes a variety of projects from knitting, sewing, and doll making to soulful articles on bead necklaces and wool felting. It offers simple projects for beginners and children, like felt hearts and beeswax modeling for children. Also, an exciting feature and pattern for a magnificent sweater designed by Suss Cousins. This issue has instructions for a Felted Farm Playmat (a blanket with a scene) and the article It Takes a Village to Knit a Farm which includes instructions for a knitted playmat.