Popular Craft Websites

The old site is gone but most of the old patterns are now listed in Heather's friendship bracelet making forum. The forum is a great place to share ideas as well as find free patterns and advice on making friendship bracelets.

This site shares over 40 free beading patterns. Patterns include plenty of pictures so that even beginning beaders will be able to create their own beaded jewelry. Instructions include bead suggestions and substitution recommendations. Site includes a gallery of beaded jewelry others have created from these patterns. Be sure to check out Ruby's book, "Beading with Ruby ~ A Beginner's guide to creating beautiful beaded jewelry" to find 30 more beading patterns and tips on crafting with beads.

A nice selection of free paper pieced quilt patterns. There's even a number of patterns that combine the individual quilt squares to create a larger project. Decide which type of paper will be best for your individual needs with my side-by-side comparisons of commonly used paper types for paper piecing. Others have shared their ideas to make this site a great resource for paper piecing.

Robyn offers a number of well-illustrated step-by-step beading techniques. These projects mainly use seed beads and druks to make a variety of necklaces and bracelets.

Huge range of free beading instructions, including instructions for magnetic wraps, tigertail chokers, crystal earrings, chain bracelets and more. We also have a full online store, where you can find the glass beads, findings, semi precious beads and more needed for your project.

A whole site dedicated to making and building things using PVC pipe! Along with great tips on care, cleaning, and painting PVC pipe; this site is just crammed full of great free project ideas and patterns.

Free seed bead patterns and instructions. A wide variety of pattern types using the loom/square stitch, peyote/gourd stitch, two drop peyote stitch, and the brick/Comanche stitches. There's even a selection of fun patterns for beginners along with an easy brick stitch tutorial.

Learn how to bead around a cabochon with my easy to follow beading tutorial. There's several other great tutorials along with a number of free patterns. Editor's Note: The artist also shares some of her award-winning beadwork to inspire the bead lover in all of us.

A wonderful selection of free paper piecing quilt block patterns. Special sections for flowers, hearts and Christmas are joined by a variety of patterns in the small block, blocks for quilts and projects sections.

Free paper piecing patterns, applique shapes and even a nice selection of free border patterns can be found here. Many of the quilt blocks are pieced together showing how the blocks could be assembled into a finished quilt. Scans of actual fabric are used to better illustrate how the finished blocks will look. Along with what must be hundreds of paper pieced quilt patterns are more traditionally pieced block patterns. We even have a section of blocks designed for children to make.