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		<title>Mr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (&amp; Stitching) Edge – Iviva Olenick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Cutting (&#38; Stitching) Edge! I&#8217;m Mr X Stitch and I&#8217;ll be your guide to the best in contemporary embroidery. Each week I&#8217;ll showcase someone who is rocking the world of embroidery and textiles. Iviva Olenick is an embroidery teacher and artist based in Brooklyn. &#160; &#160; &#8220;A visual artist, I create narrative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BERNINA 3 Series Master Craftster Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sweets4ever</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this installment of Master Craftsters, five talented Craftster members &#8211; Abbeeroad, kittykill, Leslieshappyheart, MissingWillow and rlynn &#8211; received sewing machines from BERNINA&#8217;s 3 Series line of sewing machines. Here&#8216;s a quick look at what they received and what they crafted!]]></description>
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		<title>May 23, 2012 Featured Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 19:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jungrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every two weeks we pick our favorite 15 projects that Craftster readers have voted for with the &#8220;This Rocks!&#8221; button. Here are our latest picks which were lovingly and painstakingly chosen (so many amazing projects to choose from!), this time by rackycoo. We hope you enjoy them! TARDIS in a bottle by hpotterwizard The Ring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Jeans? Upcycle that Denim!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rackycoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great thing about blue jeans is that they last for years. Alas, though, sometimes they&#8217;re outgrown, or they get ripped or stained or simply go out of style. Usually, they&#8217;ve still got lots of great denim fabric that crafty folks like us can use in several ways, like some of these: djonesgirl made several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr X Stitch Presents: Beefranck&#8217;s Emporium – mina.s.m.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MrXStitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m Beefranck, Queen of Ironic Stitching and Editor-in-Chief at Mr X Stitch. I know a thing or two about cool stitchery and it&#8217;s my pleasure to share my finds with you. So let&#8217;s do it! &#8212;&#8211; Hi everybody! This week I want to show you some work from my new craft crush, mina.s.m. I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epic Crafting: Five Projects That Amaze Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rackycoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a craft project can be completed in record time, but what happens when someone sets aside a hours, days, or even weeks to work on a single project? You know, those projects that obviously took just about forever, and are mind-blowingly awesome. Here are five labors of love that you should definitely see. First, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 9, 2012 Featured Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 20:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jungrrl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.craftster.org/blog/?p=20732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every two weeks we pick our favorite 15 projects that Craftster readers have voted for with the &#8220;This Rocks!&#8221; button. Here are our latest picks which were lovingly and painstakingly chosen (so many amazing projects to choose from!), this time by sweet4ever. We hope you enjoy them! Needle Felted Fox in the Woods pillow on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (&amp; Stitching) Edge – Harriet Maxwell</title>
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		<comments>http://www.craftster.org/blog/mr-x-stitch-presents-the-cutting-stitching-edge-%e2%80%93-harriet-maxwell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.craftster.org/blog/?p=20265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Cutting (&#38; Stitching) Edge! I&#8217;m Mr X Stitch and I&#8217;ll be your guide to the best in contemporary embroidery. Each week I&#8217;ll showcase someone who is rocking the world of embroidery and textiles. Harriet Maxwell is an embroidery artist from London, England. She creates machine embroidered portraits. &#8220;My current work is focussed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craftster MeetUp in VA</title>
		<link>http://www.craftster.org/blog/craftster-meetup-in-va/</link>
		<comments>http://www.craftster.org/blog/craftster-meetup-in-va/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 15:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rackycoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love meeting people through Craftster. Last weekend, I loaded Mr. &#8216;Coo up in the car and headed up to Virginia to meet some new friends.&#160; cackle and I have organized several swaps together, and we always chat on the phone both when we plan the swap and then again when we partner people up. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.craftster.org/blog/crafting-for-mothers-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.craftster.org/blog/crafting-for-mothers-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sweets4ever</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother&#8217;s Day is Sunday, May 13! If you haven&#8217;t already started crafting, you&#8217;ve still got time to whip up something amazing for a mom in your life. Check out these projects you can make this week, or hop over to the Mother&#8217;s Day board for more crafty inspiration. Wee House and Decorated Frame Phizzychick created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craftster Crush:  SevsOnlyGirl</title>
		<link>http://www.craftster.org/blog/craftster-crush-sevsonlygirl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.craftster.org/blog/craftster-crush-sevsonlygirl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sweets4ever</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, our Craftster Crush is SevsOnlyGirl! Sevs has been a member of Craftster since 2005 &#8212; seven years of Craftster love! She&#8217;s not only an amazing volunteer Moderator. She&#8217;s also an epic Swap Organizer and participant. As of today, she&#8217;s completely 111 swaps! When she&#8217;s not inspiring on the Craft Swap boards, you might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winner of Craft Challenge #73 &#8211; Spring Cleaning</title>
		<link>http://www.craftster.org/blog/winner-of-craft-challenge-73-spring-cleaning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.craftster.org/blog/winner-of-craft-challenge-73-spring-cleaning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sweets4ever</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.craftster.org/blog/?p=20688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s Craft Challenge was Spring Cleaning! The challenge this month was to to get cleaning and sorting! Your mission was to find at least one unused item in a drawer of your home and repurpose and revamp it into something useable and awesome. Our winning entry was created by flutterbysee! Her entry titled, Galaxy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craftster Quickies:  How to Make Subway Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jungrrl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Craftster Quickies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this episode of Craftster Quickies, kittykill teaches you how to make subway style art for Mother&#8217;s Day! With just some stickers, wood, and paint, you can make simple, meaningful statements and great pieces of art, too!]]></description>
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		<title>Mr X Stitch Presents: Beefranck&#8217;s Emporium – Glass Camel&#8217;s Needle Felting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MrXStitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m Beefranck, Queen of Ironic Stitching and Editor-in-Chief at Mr X Stitch. I know a thing or two about cool stitchery and it&#8217;s my pleasure to share my finds with you. So let&#8217;s do it! &#8212;&#8211; Hi everybody! This week we&#8217;re looking at awesome examples of needle felting from Glass Camel. These tiny Invader Zim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craftster Swap Gallery Highlights</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 13:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rackycoo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Craftster Community Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craft swaps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite things about Craftster is participating in craft swaps. Through swapping, I&#8217;ve met so many great people and have received so many wonderful handmade treasures from all over the world. Even though there&#8217;s no way I can participate in every swap, I still enjoy looking through the swap gallery to see what [...]]]></description>
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