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As part of her “continuing mission to bring plastic canvas to the people,” Diane Gilleland (CraftyPod) has posted a detailed tutorial on Craftzine.com for creating “a custom-sized, custom-crafted” storage box. Diane gives you the technical info; you supply the imagination and color.…

Connie G. Barwick, cross-stitch editor for About.com, has a gift-wrap idea that is a gift in itself. She decorated the top of a paper mache box with a hardanger design stitched on plastic canvas and attached with decorative thumb tacks.…

(1) Musique de Noël from Le blog de Mamou
(2) Mademoiselle Noel from Le blog de carmela
(3) Heart Christmas Tree II from Matrioshka Biscornu
(4) Joyeux Noël from kaligrilles
(5) Santa-in-the-chimney PC coasters from FreePatterns.com
(6) Santa’s elves from Les chroniques de Frimousse

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The pattern for this plastic-canvas Halloween door decor is free from FreePatterns.com. Get the pattern.

(1) Petite fille from Aurelle.
(2) Unicorn from kaligrilles.
(3) Sunbonnet Sues with jack-o-lantern from Lace ‘n’ Ribbon Roses.
(4) Mosaic stitch tissue box cover from FreePatterns.com.
(5) Mon beau chevalier from bdcouture.
(6) Four patterns including these sweet birds from Bien le Bonjour aux Brodeuses.
(7) I…

Last week I mentioned Diane Gilleland’s new plastic-canvas-project e-booklet, Hook, Needle, Pencil Case. Since then, I’ve had a chance to step through the project instructions and experiment with most of the techniques.

Wow. Diane continually amazes me. This guide — like…

FreePatterns.com calls this project Quilt Jar Covers. I haven’t downloaded the pattern yet, but the foundation material appears to be……plastic canvas. Yeaaa!! Get the free pattern.

Look what Diane Gilleland is doing with plastic canvas now! She says,

I turned the PC into a sturdy case for crafty tools. This Hook, Needle, Pencil Case also has the benefit of being covered with weaving rather than needlepoint. So, it doesn’t…

Craft Leftovers is sharing the pattern and instructions for this sweet plastic-canvas project. The mini sewing box is based on a design used by the author’s great-grandmother. Enjoy the story of the rediscovery (Sounds like my garage!) and download the pattern.

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There’s a mouth-watering buffet of plastic canvas delights and curiosities over on Sister Diane’s CraftyPod. Go see.

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