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Halloween Witch

October 15, 2008

Here’s a fun little witch decoration designed by Trish from Trish’s Crafts. It can easily be made out of scrap 3/4″ stock. Trish provides a printable pattern in JPG format. She also includes detailed painting and assembly instructions. The painting may look intimidating, but you can be as elaborate or as basic as you want. [...]

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Ready-to-Use Humorous Halloween Illustrations

October 13, 2008

I thought I’d stay on the Halloween theme this week. So to kick things off, this week’s Book of the Week is Ready-to-Use Humorous Halloween Illustrations from Dover Clipart. I really like Dover clipart because they are all royalty free images and perfect for designing some of your own patterns. Often, the clipart is in [...]

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Peek A Boo

October 10, 2008

Here’s a ghostly box to hold all of your Halloween treats. This free pattern was designed by Heidi Markish of Heidi Markish Designs and hosted by FreeCraftz.com. Heidi includes a materials/supplies list, printable pattern, assembly instructions and a great painting guide. This is a quick and easy cutting, but the painting may take a little [...]

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Halloween Luminaries

October 9, 2008

Here’s a great idea by TLT on the BT3Central.com forums. Rather than cutting pumpkins this year, he decided to take a few of the free pumpkin carving patterns available on the internet and use them as patterns to make his own luminaries. He used corner blocks with dadoes cut to hold the plywood panels, which [...]

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Black Cats Only

October 8, 2008

Sue Mey is tempting fate by inviting black cats over for Halloween. Bad omen or not, you can’t deny, this is a great pattern. This Black Cats Only design is available free on her website. This design is provided in JPG format for easy scaling. While you’re there, check out some of her other Halloween [...]

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The New Scroll Saw Handbook

October 7, 2008

Yesterday, I posted episode 2 of Scroll Saw Goodies Podcast. In this episode, I talk about how to choose a scroll saw. One of the major resources I used while researching this topic was Patrick Spielman’s The New Scroll Saw Handbook. This is such a great book, I wanted to make it the Book Of [...]

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Hobby Horse Toys

October 1, 2008

International travel is fun, huh? Well, let’s not stop, because this time we’re flying over to Ireland. Last week I wrote about hobby horses during folk toy week. During my research, I came across some hobby horses that I was in awe of. I desperately wanted to write about it at the time, but they [...]

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Real Fez

September 30, 2008

While you have your passport out, lets jump over to Algeria. Real Fez has a new blog where he shares his most recent works. If that wasn’t enough, he was also kind enough to share some of his patterns! And who doesn’t love free patterns? Recently, he’s been experimenting with cork, which has been really [...]

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La Bottegaccia

September 29, 2008

Time to grab your passport, because this time we’re flying to Italy. Cristina Gallons is an Italian scroll saw artist with a relatively new blog called La Bottegaccia. Here she displays many of her portrait cuttings of the stars of the past, my favorite being this portrait of Charlie Chaplin. You’ll find such stars at [...]

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Scroll Sawing Egg Roller Toys

September 26, 2008

I wanted to end the week with a book review that got me started on this folk toy kick. I recently got Scroll Sawing Egg Roller Toys by Doug Turner. Don’t look for it on your bookstore shelves, because you can only find it online. This is a self published 44 page ebook with detailed [...]

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