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Encourage Creativity with a DIY Kid’s Craft Box from Recycled Materials

Encourage Creativity with a DIY Kid’s Craft Box from Recycled Materials

Encourage creativity, design, problem-solving, and engineering with an inexpensive kid’s craft box made from gathered, recycled materials, and inexpensive additions. They say kids get more enjoyment out of the cardboard box than the gift, and while it’s meant to be a joke, I’ve found there’s a lot of truth to the saying. My kids fight…

Roundup: knitted dishcloth patterns

Roundup: knitted dishcloth patterns

A collection of patterns for making your own dishcloths. Once you’ve tried a knitted dishcloth, you’ll never go back to disposable – they work really well.

Quilting–the perfect frugal hobby

Quilting–the perfect frugal hobby

Quilting is the most frugal of handicrafts as it originally was all about utilising scraps of leftover fabric or recycling old fabrics like clothing. Here’s how to start quilting on the cheap.