Fabulous 4th of July Week Craftastic Monday Link Party

It's a lovely holiday week, so it's never been a better time to  link up your summer makes.  Patriotic & 4th of July themed projects are especially welcome!

Last week I shared my Easy DIY Beaded Stretch Bracelet Tutorial:

And stay tuned for a fabulous fabric giveaway & matching project tutorial coming up later this week!

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Now for the Craftastic Picks features...

Abbotts At Home created this fantastic kid's play kitchen and shared the plans to make it:



Sew Yummy made this super cute fish quilt:

Handmade Weekly shared her clever plans for this DIY ironing board & iron holder: 

Eyelove Knots shared this cute free crochet watermelon sunglasses case:

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Easy DIY Bead Stretch Bracelets

This summer I'm getting serious about using my hoard of craft supplies.  It's a move it or lose it kind of mentality after years of collecting stuff that I've "meant to get around to using" and then well, not.  I'm starting with some of my jewelry making supplies and this 

Easy DIY Beaded Stretch Bracelet how-to.  

This is a great project for a beginning crafter & also ideal for keeping kids busy during summer.  Choose different colors, sizes styles and contrasting beads to make unique looks. I used chunky silicone beads for my melon colored bracelet and smaller acrylic beads & glass seed beads for my others.

   Materials:

     - Round beads (I get my silicone beads here & the acrylic ones are from my shop here)

     - Contrasting seed beads (optional)

     - Clear elastic stretch cord

     - Round crimp beads

     - Pliers

     - Ruler

Start by laying out a bead design against a ruler.  If possible, measure around the wrist to get the perfect fit.  7 inches is the ideal length for kids or petite adults.  Cut a strand of stretch cord that is 2 inches longer than the wrist measurement.  String the beads.

Bring the ends of the cord together and wrap them around a finger snugly & tie in a knot like you would a balloon.  Pull the cord ends to bring knot as close to beads as possible.

Grab a round crimp bead.  It will look like a puffy letter "C".

Cover the knot with the crimp bead so that it is fully inside it.  Move the excess cord pieces so that one piece is coming out of each end of the crimp bead.  Use the pliers to gently press the crimp bead closed. 

It should look like a little ball.

Trim off excess cord and try the bracelet on.  

Make more to share.  These make a great gift!

Hello Summer Craftastic Monday Link Party!

It's officially summer!  And I LOVE it!!  Come link up all your latest & greatest makes for summer: recipes, wearables, DIY decor, gardening, whatever you've been creating.

Last week I shared a great summer FREE pattern find that I used to make these fabulous color changing knit shorts:

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Now for the Craftastic Picks features!

The Scrap Shoppe Blog created this incredible enclosed :

A Big Green House had this 4 ingredient Nutella brownie recipe.  

Purple Hues and Me turned a tuna can into a sweet trinket box:

The Organized Dream shared this healthy yogurt banana bread recipe:

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~~ Due to Pinterest inappropriately censoring pins and banning accounts, 
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• As long as it's crafty, and made by you, it's Craftastic (no links to shops, link parties or other people's work).  Add the link to your specific post. Product reviews, plagiarized or sponsored posts for random items will be immediately deleted.  
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Summer Sewing Starts Now! FREE Shorts Pattern Find

Summer is nearly here and it's so good to be sewing for it!  A couple of weeks ago I shared my latest fabric buy - some cool Solar Color Changing Jersey knit.  I had to put working with it on pause while tending to a sick baby, but now that things are back to normal on the home front, I got a chance to get rolling on some projects.    

The real question was what to make??  I wanted to do some shorts for my daughter with this color changing flowers print that turns from this black & white design....

To this colorful print in the sunshine:

I poured through my pattern collection to see what I could find. I had used this free Ginger Shorties pattern by Sew Like My Mom for the first time a few years ago, back when my daughter was 6.  It covered sizes 12 months-8yrs and was free so it was a great find.

It was such a great and quick sew I made several pairs as the bottoms of some shortie pajamas too, which she really loved.

I wanted to use it again, but with my daughter being nearly 10 I was afraid the largest size would be too small and I'd have to scale it up myself.  So imagine my delight when I saw that Sew Like My Mom upgraded it to go through size 16!!  And it's still FREE!  You can get it HERE.

It was just as easy to make as before.  It's literally just 3 pieces to cut (two legs and a waistband) and three seams to sew.  SO quick to put together.  By using a nice rib knit I didn't even need to add any elastic to the waistband.  

Of course the sun refused to cooperate when I was taking photos and hid behind a cloud while she was wearing them, but a little later I was able to get an in-the-sun photo for the full color change magic effect:

I also made another pair with some stretchy stripe terry knit I had in my stash (yay stash-busting!!).  

Sew Like My Mom has several other free shorts patterns there and some cute patterns you can purchase too.  I'm definitely going to make some more and since the sizing covers so many ages, I can make stuff for my 1 yr old up to my 13 yr old.  With fabrics from my stash + the free patterns clothing 3 out of 4 kids for free is a win for sure! 

Hello Summer Craftastic Monday Link Party

Summer is nearly here!  School's are out and it's time to flip the switch to the season of sun, vacation and longer days (and hopefully less rain).  Boy, have I been waiting for this!!! Come link up all your latest & greatest makes below and get us in the mood for summertime!

My littlest guy is finally feeling better so I've got a number of new projects coming up - including a fabulous fabric giveaway, so stay tuned!!

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There were so many great links, this week has TWICE as many Craftastic Picks!

Frau Tschi-Tschi made these adorable amigurumi crochet wedding snails and shared her free pattern:

Our Table for Seven had this yummy crockpot fudge brownie recipe:

Kippi At Home shared this fabulous llama pillow tutorial.  I just LOVE everything about this project!!!

The Scrap Shoppe made these patriotic star spangled flower pots:

Adventured of DIY Mom shared how to make these sweet 3-D paper stars:


DIY Party Mom had these sweet free Commandments printable graphics:



Krazy Kabbage made this colorful tie-dye Fast Forward Chevron crochet bag (and free pattern):

Mi bitacora artesanal had this amazing glass bottle revamp done with chalk paint & decoupage:

If you're one of this week's features, be sure to grab my Featured On button over on my Buttons Page to share the good news. 

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I can't feature your post if you don't share the party.  
  

~~ Due to Pinterest inappropriately censoring pins and banning accounts, 
Sew Can Do will not be pinning projects or using Pinterest going forward. ~~  

I WILL feature these projects on Facebook

& Twitter instead for your creations to have MORE exposure!

Follow me there to see more great projects (and see if yours is one of them)!   

Ready to link up your crafty creations?

 

Party rules are simple: 

• As long as it's crafty, and made by you, it's Craftastic (no links to shops, link parties or other people's work).  Add the link to your specific post. Product reviews, plagiarized or sponsored posts for random items will be immediately deleted.  
• Grab my party button & put it on your post, party page or blog somewhere.  If you want the chance to be featured, this is key.  The button code can be found HERE.
• Check out some of the other fabulous links and share some crafty comment love.  We all love getting comments!!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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