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Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores has revealed the winners of its 2012 National Craft Month Photo Contest. Crafters were encouraged to submit photos through Jo-Ann’s Facebook page of their favorite handcrafted items throughout the month of March. Over 1,000 entries were submitted.

The winner of the popular vote, cast by Jo-Ann Facebook fans, is Kim Butler of Newburyport, Mass. who submitted a river rock hand-painted to look like a bunny. She won a $250 Jo-Ann gift card.

The second grand prize winner, chosen by a panel of judges from Jo-Ann, is Allison Hoffman of Austin, Texas. Hoffman, who also earned a $250 Jo-Ann gift card, created an amigurumi Bob Ross doll. Amigurumi is a Japanese method of knitting or sewing stuffed animals. Hoffman’s work can be found at craftyiscool.com.

Photo: Jo-Ann/Business Wire

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F+W Media is reportedly partnering with Hoffman Media and the Martha Pullen Company to launch an online store at store.marthapullen.com. There is already an online store there, but the new site launching on July 1st will also include original content, classes and sewing and cross-stitching products. Martha Pullen is the publisher of Sew Beautiful.

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Publishers Weekly reports that C&T Publishing is launching a new imprint called Stash.

Four titles are set for release this fall under the Stash imprint and five in the fall, Marson said, including one-to-two titles per season in the Design Collective line. The launch list will feature Me and My Sewing Machine, City Quilts, Little Birds and Socks Appeal. C&T handles its own sales to quilt and fabric stores and NBN distributes to bookstores.

C&T Publishing has blogged about Stash here. The book covers above are the first four books from the imprint. Love the cute Little Birds cover.

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Megan Nicolay, the author of Generation T: Beyond Fashion: 120 New Ways to Transform a T-Shirt, explains how to turn a t-shirt into a halter top with just two cuts and no sewing. Megan also knows how to turn a t-shirt into a pillow.

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Megan Nicolay, the author of Generation T: Beyond Fashion: 120 New Ways to Transform a T-Shirt, explains how to turn a t-shirt into a pillow in this video. No sewing is involved. You need a t-shirt, sharp scissors, a chalk marker and a mixing bowl. Take a look:

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Here’s how I’ve managed to combine my love of vintage clothes, vintage fabrics, and thrift stores: A circle skirt created from a thrifted vintage sheet.

An upcycled tank top is a quick and easy sewing project to make from any old T-shirt.

Let’s face it, Mother’s Day is two days away and even though I’ve warned you, you still haven’t made anything for your mom. Well, no fear my friends, I’ve put together a list of fabulous eco-friendly and last minute gifts for Mother’s Day!

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I donat usually stream Netflix onto my television to probe the a”inner workings of my mind, but it had that effect not long ago. a”While I was catching an old episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, the actorsa voices lagged a fraction of a second behind the movement a”of their mouths, making me so disoriented it completely ruined the show. Soon my irritation turned to puzzlement, and some self-observation allowed me to track my frustration to a precise source. I didnat care that the ominous soundtrack rose half a second late when Vincent DaOnofrio and Kathryn Erbe crept into the subway tunnel where they a(c)were about to find a body. I didnat care that the showas trademark duh-dung! sound marking a new scene was still duh-dung-ing after the scene started. It was only when people talked that I went batty. I would watch the characters speak, and then Iad switch to listening to them, and then Iad watch them speak again. I just couldnat meld the two streams of information in my head.

Thanks to Netflix, I was confronted with one of the most crucial tricks that the human brain uses to make sense of the world: combining input from all five senses into a single, coherent experience, updated many times a second in virtually real time. Because the techniques our brains use to meld the senses are far from perfect, it turns out, we can fall prey to a variety of illusionsaand to maddening confusion when Netflix delivers audio and video out of sync.

One of the most famous such illusions is known as the McGurk Effect, named for its discoverer, Harry McGurk, a developmental psychologist at the University of Surrey in England. In the 1970s he filmed people repeatedly making the sound ga. Then he had a new audio track laid over the film so that ga was replaced with the sound ba. The new audio and video were perfectly in sync. Many people who watched the movie were sure that the speakers were actually saying da, a different syllable entirely. If they closed their eyes, they heard the correct ba. When they opened their eyes, it became da again. (If you donat know about the McGurk Effect, you may want to experience it via this very impressive video)…

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