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Here is the perfect gift for the knitter on your list!  Lee Meredith shows us how to whip up this stripey, wavy hat from a free pattern download this week on CraftStylish!

Lee Meredith

Mary Ray teaches us how to master the miter and create these beautifully elegant napkins in one great tutorial.

Mary Ray

Make a gift-box keepsake with needlepoint and this smashing project by Diane Gilleland.  The best part? It's already wrapped!

Diane Gilleland

Jennifer Stern's pretty machine-embroidered snowflake napkin rings are quick-to-make and holiday bright.

Len Hasemann

These fab hair accessories are selling for $40 and up in retail oulets—but you can DIY with this awesome how-to by the ever-stylin' Jennifer Worick.

Jennifer Worick

You don't need any stencils, you don't need any stamps—just a few fall leaves and this terrific project by Kayte Terry and you, too, can have hand-printed linens to gussy up your table.

Kayte Terry

Here is the perfect gift for the knitter on your list!  Lee Meredith shows us how to whip up this stripey, wavy hat from a free pattern download this week on CraftStylish!

Photo: Lee Meredith

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Hey, Crafters! The site is buzzing with projects, challenges, and contests this week—all with the express intention to get you crafting! This year, this season, and this economy are primed to embrace the DIY sensibility and all its glory. Because you can make it yourself, for someone you love, and make it merry. Check out the fabulous projects and tutorials coming at you this week—we are busy putting together projects for everyone on your list!

• It's the final countdown to the Make It Pink Challenge!!! There are just a few days left for you to meet the October 31st deadline. Post any handmade pink project to the Make It Pink Gallery and CraftStylish will donate $1 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure for every project posted—up to $1,000! And for every pink prayer shawl uploaded to the Make It Pink gallery in October, Taunton Books will donate $10 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, up to $1,000! Click here for some pretty, pink project inspiration.

• Get organized for the Dare to Make Holiday Challenge! Jennifer Worick offers her top tips and a pretty download journal for you to keep your eyes on the prize and make it all this holiday season.
  

• Check out the skeleton that we dragged out of our closet for Halloween. Be forewarned, it's pretty creepy. For the first CraftStylish Caption Contest, we invite you to create a caption for our frightening photo and win a year's subscription to Threads magazine.

• Jeffery Rudell shows us how to transform our little darlings into demons with this creepy photo project —just in time for Halloween.
  

• Erika Kern returns with part two of her how to turn family portraits into an embroidery pattern project. This week Erika shows us how to make an amazing family picture with incredible hand-stitchery.

• Linda Permann's Dare to Make It Crochet-along loops into week three. This week, Linda shows us how to crochet sleeves for the Sweet Baby Hoodie, and this project turns the corner and really starts to look like something a baby could wear.

• The Queen of T-shirt restyling, Cal Patch teaches us how to fashion a color-blocked, tiered tea dress out of a pile of old faves. Quick, easy, and oh, so cute—this might be the perfect gift for any fashion-forward girl in your life.
  

• You'll wish the weather were colder just so you could snuggle up in Tina Hilton's knit lux neck warmer. Super-easy and super-fast, this knit project is another keeper for your gift list.

• Plus more DIY inspiration from Susan Beal and Wendy Sloneker, new posts from behind the scenes at FIT with design student Alex Sudalnik, and Pamela Jaye takes her business pursuit up a notch with a visit to the bank.

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