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Absolutely Free Scroll Saw Patterns

November 26, 2007

In my last post, I mentioned Absolutely Free Scroll Saw Patterns. AFSSP is an online community with over 3200 members. Here, you can get advice from other members and exchange ideas and patterns. One really neat thing they do is have a monthly design competition. They choose a subject and members submit their designs. The [...]

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Giving Thanks

November 21, 2007

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. So what better pattern than of a cornucopia? This pattern was developed by Sylvia, a moderator and pattern developer for Absolutely Free Scroll Saw Patterns. AFSSP is a MSN community dedicated to creating and exchanging patterns with its members. While Sylvia has numerous patterns available at AFSSP, she also [...]

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Moose Tealight Candle Holder

November 19, 2007

Sheila Landry of Sheila Landry Designs is a painter and scroller from Nova Scotia, Canada. Her site has a nice collection of patterns, all at a pretty reasonable price! She has a free pattern for a moose tealight candle holder. It really is a neat project and pretty easy to do. I’d imagine this would [...]

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Puzzle Tutorial

November 14, 2007

The last post, I talked about Carter Johnson’s puzzles. He really creates unique and heirloom quality puzzles. He is an active member of the Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts message boards and the resident expert in puzzle making. His experience and advice is priceless. He was kind enough to share his knowledge in a tutorial [...]

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CarterJ Puzzles

November 13, 2007

From time to time, I’d like to showcase galleries of scrollers. Its really neat to look at other’s work and find inspiration. Carter Johnson is a regular contributor on the Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts forum. He’s the ‘go to’ guy when it comes to puzzles. If there is a question about puzzles making, he’s [...]

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Welcome Friends

November 9, 2007

“Welcome Friends.” What a warm sentiment. Create this plaque for your front entryway to welcome your guests into your home. This is a free pattern from Sue Mey of Scrollsawartist. Sue is an artist from Pretoria, South Africa and has designed patterns for Creative Woodworks and Crafts, Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts, Craftwise and The [...]

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Shop of Arpop

November 7, 2007

Looking for free scroll saw patterns? Well, Arpop from Shop of Arpop has a few. Actually he has quite a few. They really are beautiful patterns. I have my eye on a half a dozen patterns already, and I’m sure I’ll try even more. His website is easy to navigate. The patterns are organized into [...]

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Japanese Puzzle Boxes

November 5, 2007

Who doesn’t like puzzles and brain teasers? Bruce from Homemade Puzzles certainly does. He has accumulated 19 Japanese style puzzle boxes of his own design. He offers them all for free on his website. And what a website, too! Very easy to navigate with plenty of pictures, animations and descriptions so you can quickly find [...]

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Red Skelton Portrait

November 2, 2007

I try not to post entries about the same website so close to each other, but this pattern from Steve Good is so wonderful, I couldn’t pass it up. As stated in my last post, my favorite websites for patterns is Scrollsaw Workshop. He usually doesn’t do portraits. In fact, this is the first one [...]

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Scrollsaw Workshop

October 31, 2007

I’m a visual learner. It’s much easier for me to grasp a concept if I can see it demonstrated. And when I first started scrolling, I was looking for videos on how to use the scroll saw. That’s when I came across Steve Good’s Scrollsaw Workshop. He had several scroll saw videos on YouTube which [...]

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