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9 sources of free knitting patterns

These free knitting pattern sites will take you straight to the patterns, with no need to log in or subscribe or go through any hoops. There’s lots of great stuff here!

How to clean a hair dryer

Hair dryers tend to collect hair and dust in their vents – that’s the back end with grill. Cleaning that junk out can prolong the life of your hair dryer, and failing to clean it out can cause it to shoot small flames out the back end.

How I dressed up cheap modular shelving

This is one of the simplest, quickest and most affordable furniture upgrades ever.

How to touch up paint on a car

Little scratches from shopping carts and roadside shrubs and so on are the most common way for cars to get damaged. It’s not always worth either the time or money it takes to have a garage clean them up – a garage can take days to paint a car, because of the drying time. When

Make new candles out of old ones

This is a great little money saver, and a great way to recycle something which otherwise would have ended up in the trash. It’s easy to make new candles out of old ones, and it can also be fun and creative.

My double shower curtain and towel rod

Once upon a time, several years ago, I discovered a very clever thing: a double shower curtain rod. One rod holds up your shower curtain, and the other runs parallel to it, outside the shower, and on it you can hang towels, laundry to dry, or a shoe organizer filled with cotton balls and other

Homemade Play Dough Recipe Collection

It’s ridiculously easy to make homemade play-dough with this play dough recipe collection. It’s less expensive than buying commercial versions, and you can also add creative touches.

Free quilt pattern collection

One of the great things about quilts is that you can make them from the good parts of old sweaters or other materials that have seen better days. You can mix these fabric pieces in with brand new ones, or wait until you have enough scraps for an entire quilt. It’s a great way to

Using Todoist to stay organized

I’m notoriously hard to keep organized. I have so much going on, and am always thinking up new projects, and am easily distracted from getting things done. I’ve tried lots of online and offline systems (Springnote, Ubernote, etc.), all of which are awesome and may be ideal for your brain. Just not mine. Todoist has

DIY car organizer box

Craftapple has a brilliant idea: the car organizer, a box that sits in your car and holds all that stuff that normally gets dumped somewhere in the backseat or the glove compartment. You can buy the pattern and make it just like they did, or… …you can opt for my version, which involves no working