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Cliff Notes -  5.5X6.5, & 5.5X7.5 Design Area is  I used to make these all the time, years ago, long before I had even heard of a cricut.  So when looking for a quick Valentine for my BSF small group, now that I have a cricut, these were perfect!  These could also make great stocking stuffers, Easter basket fillers, or gifts for a bridal party... This is another super simple sewing project.  Absolute beginner level - it would be a great first sewing project if you have never sewn before.   You'll want two pieces of fabric.  I like to use plain off white for the outside, and a pretty pattern for the inside.  For these, I used the scraps of off white material leftover from making pillow covers.  It's a lightweight canvas, a little thicker and muslin.  Plain cotton will work just fine!  I'm just using up some fabric scraps for these. For the outside (the part I'm applying cricut vinyl to) cut a rectangle 5.5 by 6.5. For the patterned inside material, cut a rectangle 5

This is my Ethnicity Estimate, as given by Ancestry For a basic explanation of what is shown here, read this:  More Than A Pie Chart I keep telling you all to download your raw DNA from your ancestry.com DNA tests, upload it to gedmatch, and run some of the algorithms there.  It can be a little overwhelming, there is so much to learn with our DNA, so today I'm just going to run a few quick projects to show you some of the things Gedmatch can do.   Gedmatch is a very barebones site  - it does a lot, but it does not explain a lot.  If you want to learn a lot more than what I am showing you here, go to this amazing site that breaks down what each option is, and why you should, or should not run it.   For instance, if you are not Jewish and you run the "Eurogenes Jtest" you may get false Ashkenazi (Jewish) results.  So you don't really just want to blindly run each test and believe the answers you see.   First you have to download your raw DNA.  If you did an Ancestry te

After owning my cricut for about 3 months, I put together a post of some of the projects I had created, with links to the tutorials on how to make each one. This post will show you those: http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-cricut-projects-in-2017.html    Below I've begun separating my projects by type, listing the links for each one under the proper heading. HTV  - Vinyl -  Paper  - Glass Etching HTV I love htv.  It's the easiest to weed, and its so simple to apply.  I use Siser Easyweed almost exclusively. It's cheap on amazon.  I also just use an iron, which can cause complete outrage and disbelief on many cricut groups.  I've made many, many projects by now, and all of them have held up great.  And I just use an old  thrift store iron (set between cotton & wool), on an old (literally antique - it is wood, not metal, if that makes a difference) ironing board.  I think the secret to this is the  silicone baking sheets  I use inside my shirts, or under th

This is one of my most viewed posts, and the one I get the most feedback on.  I tried to explain as simply as possible, how to use text in design space: http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/12/using-text-in-design-space.html The above link is actually part two of this post, which explains how to download and install fonts, so that you can use your own free fonts in design space. http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/12/all-about-fonts-text-in-cricut-design.html You'll quickly find that design space is very limited.  It does not do things like curve text and read font kerning (proper spacing) properly.  There are a lot of extra programs that many of us use to bypass the inadequacies of design space, and make designing easier.  If you ignore all the rest, at least look at FontLabPad, which is truly a HUGE time saver when using many of the pretty fonts and getting them to look the way the font designer intended, with almost no effort.    Which Apps To Use With Cricut http://field

I keep these printed out on the cabinet doors in my craft space My Cheat Sheet of My Favorite Fonts is updated regularly.  I include links to download each of them, and all of these are free, most are from Dafont:  http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-favorite-fonts-cheat-sheet.html Fonts With Tails Cheat Sheet This cheat sheet is for fonts with "easy glyphs".  Fun fonts like I love glitter, where you can quickly access the pretty tails and swirls without needing a full character map (as is needed for Samantha).  I update this post regularly, and have links to download all of the FREE fonts here as well.   http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/09/fonts-with-tails.html Writing Fonts Cheat Sheet Most fonts will write as an outline in cricut, but I have a long list of FREE fonts that will collapse on themselves and work great as writing fonts.  I'm constantly adding to this, so be sure to actually go to the link and check out the full sample sheet, and all the li