Craft Tutorials, Tool Guides And Gift Ideas

The Creative Folk is a crafting blog for people who already make things. Sewing, knitting, woodworking, pottery and two dozen more, written by crafters who use the tools they write about.

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Wooden toolbox holding a hammer, chisels and hand tools

Woodworking

99 posts

Close-up of a diamond ring being cleaned

Jewelry Making

78 posts

Hands assembling a scrapbook page with patterned paper and pencils

Paper Crafts

60 posts

Hands arranging unfired white ceramic bowls on a board

Pottery

42 posts

Embroidery hoop with white fabric, skeins of colorful floss and a thimble

Embroidery

41 posts

Stack of patchwork quilt squares in mixed prints

Quilting

37 posts

Gift guides

We keep a guide for most of the crafts people actually do, updated as picks come and go. Here are four of them.

Easel with a canvas, paint tubes and brushes on a wooden table

Gifts for painters

Acrylic and oil.

Ball of turquoise yarn with circular knitting needles curved into a heart

Gifts for knitters

From first scarf to sock weight.

Rotary cutter, pins and folded quilting fabrics on a green cutting mat

Gifts for quilters

Piecing, cutting and pressing.

Three crochet hooks resting on a purple granny square

Gifts for crocheters

Hooks, yarn and the rest.

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