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This is a link to stuffed animals made from gloves.

SUPPPPEEEERRRRR cute!

so adorable

I'm going to purchase regular composition notebooks and cover them with fabric or scrapbook paper to make customized journals for my teens. they love to write and draw so they would like that.

this is a really cute applique t-shirt and you could use this technique with bags, adult clothes, pillows.... and you do't have to stick to the dog templates they offer, you can easily mke your own shapes or motifs!

Click on the picture to get the link.

wow i love those glove pets ... seems easy and fun to make  too.

This hooded towel project is so easy and so fast!

Hooded Towel Tutorial

I made this hooded towel for Christmas for my little girl. It is a really simple and quick project made from 1 bath towel and 1/2 of a hand towel.

Cut your hand towel in half

Fold over the finished edge of the hand towel. I folded down just past the ribbing. You want to have about 10 1/2 inches in finished length. Stitch down the edge.

I stitched a little ric -rac to the front.

Fold hand towel in half right sides together, find the middle of the side and mark with a pin.

Bring the folded edge into the middle. You may have to remove the pin while you adjust the towel.

Stitch across the bottom edge making sure you catch all layers of the pleat. When finished stitching, zig zag or overcast your seam to prevent raveling. When you are finished the right side will look like this.

Fold the bath towel in half, right sides together.

Measure over 3-4 inches from the fold and 3-4 inches down from the top and stitch.

Open bath towel flat and open and flatten the tuck. You can baste across the tuck if you want.

The front of the bath towel will look like this when finished

With right sides together, line up center of bath towel and center of hood.

Pin hood to bath towel. You will stitch from the side edge of the hood across to the other side. Be sure to back stitch when starting and stopping to reinforce the seam. I stitched close to the edge along the inside of the towel’s finished edge. (I have not stitched in the following photo)

The finished towel looks like this

Written by Allison of Funky Little Monkey.

I am a rather creative person. I love anything and everything that has to do with crafts and even before I had kids I dreamed of being creative with them. Well my son is now 16 months old and I figure the time is right to get him into the arts and craft mood. But everything seems to small for his little hands to hold.

I bought a box of used crayons at a consignment sale last week and decided that I was going to make some chunky crayons for my son to color with (since he is just 16.5 months old). I used only regular Crayola crayons since I figured that not all crayons color alike - so they must not melt alike either (I'll do another batch of just Rose Art Crayons next).

I then took a mini-muffin pan and coated it with a dab of vegetable oil in each space (just enough to show that's it's there but not enough to leave it dripping in oil).

I then took the labels off all of the crayons and broke them into fours. You can either pick the labels off one by one - or you can soak them in cold water to get the labels wet and they will slide right off - your choice (I picked them off one by one just to be difficult.)

I choose to do crayons in like colors but you can do high contrasting - your choice. I separated them out to each mini-muffin space - about three to four crayons per space:

I put them in an oven that had been preheated to 300 degrees and cooked them for 8 minutes (just enough to where they were liquid and melted and you couldn't see the actual crayon shape anymore:

From there I let them sit on the counter for 15 minutes until the congealed again. The I put them in the freezer for another 15 - 30 minutes. It was there in the freezer that they started breaking away from the pan - so when I took them out they just came right out of the pan:

And that's it .... for $3 (which is what it cost me to buy the huge box of used crayons - which I still have more of)... I made some cool toddler friendly crayons for my son:

This tutorial was written by Allison of Funky Little Monkey.

here's a link for a toddler's shirt dress.

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=2a3cdcee01e8413351ece43a5aae3cad&topic=170402.msg1742893#msg1742893