The Disorganized Crafter Blog

TL;DR: Craft shopping in both Singapore and Tokyo are amazing.

Skill Share: History of beads, part 1 by Laurie

Laurie covered prehistory up to the Egyptian dynasties.  Part two will be in October.

Show and Tell:

This looks a bit like polymer clay's answer to dichroic glass.  Whether it is or not, I've got to try it!  8-)

From Polymer Clay Polyzine, way back in 2004, they're peeling the the shiny, holograph-y layer of a CD off and adhering it to polymer clay.  Wild, no?  It's not like there's a shortage of used CDs or DVDs here'bouts.

http://www.pcpolyzine.com/2004april/barettetute.htm

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Needlework

Cross Stitch Charts from photos

My Photo Stitch a free service that takes photos you upload and gives you a cross stitch chart using (last I checked) DMC colours

Knots

Turk's Head Cord length calculator

http://turkshead.50webs.org/

Turk's Head Knot designer

http://data.oreilly.com/jallwine/knots/

Globe Knot Core Calculator

http://khww.net/gkcc.php

Turk's Head Design Playground

http://web.meson.org/crafts/TH/TH.html

Kumihimo Braiding

8 strand kongo gumi colour planner

http://www.lythastudios.com/123bead/kumiplanner.html

16 strand kongo gumi colour planner

http://craftdesignonline.com/kumihimo/

A colour planner for the 7-loop Spanish finger loop braid

http://www.islandlife.heliohost.org/cgi-bin/fingertips.pl