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• Tutorial/Pattern Included? yes, with purchase
• Post: Hustle Bustle
• Main Site: Miss Twiss
• Artist/Author: Miss Twiss
• Registration Required? No
• Free? No, and currently sold out. Edit July 16, 2007: Now available for $10 from her etsy shop.

Miss Twiss has some lovely free tutorials, too:

• Tube Top/Dress/Skirt
• Elegant Shirt Reconstruction (link to pattern at bottom of post)
• Frumpy Skirt –> Sexy Dress Reconstruction

Although you can make this petticoat as a skirt to wear to work or school, its main utility is in its usefulness for the time-traveler. Say your future self invents a time machine, and comes back to offer you a ride in it, say next week. Maybe the two of you want to visit the Renaissance, or maybe you’re thinking Victorian. And maybe you want to stop and see the American Colonies on the way back, or drop in on a Sock Hop. I know what you’re thinking - what do I wear? And more importantly, what do I wear under it?

Just as a space traveler’s best friend is his towel, a time traveler’s best friend is her petticoat. Fashions come and go, but for a good 400 years or so they all required some floofiness under your skirt. And before some wise woman discovered pants, a warm fluffy petticoat was the best way to keep your legs from getting cold in the winter.

Link to DIYnamite: let’s create » Kitten bonnet

• Tutorial/Pattern Included? yes, very basic instuctions; hardest part is getting the bonnet on the kitty
• Post: Kitten Bonnet
• Main Site: DIYnamite
• Artist/Author: DIYnamite
• Registration Required? No
• Free? Yes

• Tutorial/Pattern Included? yes
• Post: Summery Dishtowel Totebag Tutorial
• Main Site: What’s THAT gonna be?
• Artist/Author: Emily
• Registration Required? No
• Free? Yes

• Tutorial/Pattern Included? yes; for detailed instructions, select ‘view all steps’
• Post: how to make a felt bag
• Main Site: burdastyle
• Artist/Author: Johanna
• Registration Required? No
• Free? Yes

This t-shirt to halter reconstruction looks simple and elegant. I imagine I’ll have to play around with the triangles to cover my somewhat-more-generous bosom.

• Tutorial/Pattern Included? yes
• Post: Go Make Yourself Something Nice
• Main Site: etsylabs
• Artist/Author: your friend, lipstickdipschitz
• Registration Required? No
• Free? Yes

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Heather rocks, and has a pincushion tutorial in the Summer 2007 issue of Quilts and More. She designs Freshcut™ fabric for Free Spirit. And, she’s insanely pretty.