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September Crafts: Fall-Friendly Craft Ideas to Work on This Month

Fall Craft Ideas

September Knitting

September Planner Dashboard Plus Fall Craft Supplies and Project Ideas — Pictured here: Fall-friendly yarn includes Andean Treasure, High Desert and Bare Hare by Knit Picks; My September Planner Dashboard is by Maggie Holmes / Crate Paper; I’m writing in my planner with Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic Pens; I’m reading Nordic Knits by Birger Berge, published by Trafalgar Square Books; and I’m going to use my Clover Takumi bamboo knitting needles to knit a cabled scarf using one of the patterns in this book.

September Craft Ideas: Try Entrelac Knitting! Entrelac knitting is a technique you can use for creating intriguing textured projects that appear to be woven. Pictured here is a book by authors Heidi Eikeland and Mette Hovden that is focused on giving you projects using this technique. Trafalgar Square Books is the publisher.

Maja's Swedish Socks -- A Sock Knitting Pattern Book by Maja Karlsson, Published by Trafalgar Square Books

Maja’s Swedish Socks — This is another fantastic book filled with fall-friendly knitting projects. It’s a sock knitting pattern book by Maja Karlsson, -published by Trafalgar Square Books.

September Planner Crafts

September Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Like Happy Planner, Arc or Tul

If you maintain a physical planner, junk journal, scrapbook, or art journal, you might want to decorate your September calendar pages, journal pages or scrapbooking layouts with seasonal stamped images or embellishments. I invite you to check out the following pages for ideas:

Garden Journal Pages: This page has information on how to put together September garden journal pages plus additional pages for the other months besides just September.
How to Create Your Own Planners and Calendars
How to Make Your Own Academic Planner: School Diary DIY Calendar Project Idea

September Scrapbooking and Journaling Ideas

Fall Themed Mini Album Titled Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice Featuring Supplies by Simple Stories

You’ll miss out on seeing some of the world’s most inspiring scenery if you sit at home on your couch during the month of September. This is the time of year when the trees are showing off their most splendid color schemes. If you have a park or a hiking trail nearby, you can feast your eyes as you go for a stroll. You’ll want to grab a friend and your phone or camera and take photos of the all the beauty that you encounter along the way.

Then you’ll want to document your memories in a scrapbooking layout or mini album.

Fall Themed 6x8 Pocket Page Scrapbooking Layout With Photo of Utah's Dixie National Forest

Fall Themed 6×8 Pocket Page Scrapbooking Layout With Photo of Utah’s Dixie National Forest

If any of these fall scrapbooking projects look interesting to you, you can click the photos to find more information about each one. If those ideas aren’t quite what you had in mind, you can check out this page of scrapbooking ideas to find a wider variety of projects.

September Holiday Crafts

Snowflakes Crochet Pattern From the Classic Christmas Crochet Book by Heidi B Johannesen and Pia H. H. Johannesen, With Photography by David Bering / Montgomery

Christmas will be here before you know it. If you celebrate this holiday, and you plan to give handmade gifts to your inner circle, you’ll want to consider devoting some time this month to making Christmas crafts. I’ve posted bunches of free Christmas craft patterns here at this website, and I’ve also reviewed bunches of amazing Christmas craft books you might like to know about.

September Art Projects

Reinterpreting Autumn — An Original Collage Painting by Amy Solovay

If mixed media art is your jam, why not make an abstract collage featuring fall colors? Pictured here is one possible idea you could use for inspiration, but there are zillions of possibilities beyond this one.

September Crochet Projects

Pictured above, you can see work-in-progress shots of the fingerless gloves I’ve been crocheting this month.

I am enthralled by this design and am planning to release a pattern for it soon. However, I’ve had a major setback with that, because my computer died earlier this month. Beyond that, my own personal projects are somewhat on hold while I help my husband with copywriting for his tech startup.

So this pattern release has come to a temporary standstill while I navigate those real-life issues.

The fingerless glove pattern is stuck in testing phase; I’m working my way through testing the design myself and fixing minor oddities in the pattern before sharing it with a broader group of pattern testers. If you’re interested in helping me test this pattern, please drop me a comment or contact me, and I will get you the details of the test as soon as they are available. In the meanwhile, please be patient with me. Thank you for your understanding.

Find More September Crafts and Other Fall Craft Ideas to Carry You Through Autumn

The projects posted above are just a small sampling of the ideas posted on this website. I’ve put together a list of fall crafts that are seasonally appropriate for September, October and November crafting in many regions of the Western hemisphere.

Of course, if you are in Australia, you’re likelier to need spring project ideas right now, so I offer you this list of spring ideas instead.

For even more ideas, you’re invited to check out our main index of craft project ideas. Happy crafting!!

By Amy Solovay

April 21st Daily Planner Layout for Happy Planner or Other Discbound Planners

Daily Happy Planner Layout for April 21, 2024 Featuring Stamped Images by Graphic 45, Echo Park, Lawn Fawn and Others

Need ideas for daily planner layouts to use in the month of April? This page gives you an idea of a page layout you could make if you have a need for writing down multiple to-do-list items and reminders that can’t all easily just be lumped into one long list. If you want to break out your to-do list into different sections and label each of them with headers to keep you on track, this is one possible approach you could take for accomplishing that goal.

I made this daily planner layout for April 21st, but there is no special reason for using it on that particular day. You can make a planner layout like this one for any day of any month.

I try to spend about 15 minutes each day production stamping multiples of different images that I can use in my planner layouts and scrapbook pages. If I didn’t do that, putting together a stamping-intensive planner layout like this one would be really challenging. There is a LOT of stamping on this page!

I stamped most of these images ink blended cardstock, then used a stencil to draw around them with a Gelly Roll or other colored pen, and then fussy cut them out straight or scalloped scissors.

Craft Supplies You’ll Need for Creating a Similar Daily Planner Layout:

Planner Stamps: You’ll need a variety of planner stamps and assorted other stamps to make this planner layout. I used the Milo’s ABCs stamp set by Lawn Fawn; the “Plan on It” stamp set by Lawn Fawn; the “Seek Out Adventure” stamp set from the “Let’s Go Camping” collection by Echo Park Paper Company; and Graphic 45’s Calendar Stamp Set. The stamp with the crochet hook and yarn is by Simon Says Stamp. The stamp with the laundry suds is from the “Loads of Fun” stamp set by Lawn Fawn. A few of the word stamps are by My Favorite Things and Waffle Flower Crafts.
Ink Pads and Reinkers: I used ink pads to do the stamping and reinkers to do the ink blending techniques used on this planner page. Ink colors I used on this page are as follows: Catherine Pooler’s Premium Ink in the Uptown color; Tim Holtz / Ranger Industries Distress Oxide in Dusty Concord, Salvaged Patina, Stormy Sky, Bundled Sage, and Rustic Wilderness.
Cutting Dies: The scalloped lace at the top is die cut using a die from the Lacey Edgers set by Pinkfresh Studio.
Scraps of Patterned Paper: I used scraps of patterned paper from the Ephemera Queen collection by Graphic 45; this can be seen under the dated image and in the scalloped frame in the middle of the page at the lower edge of the planner layout.
Washi Tape: I used a strip of glittery, sparkly washi tape by Graphic 45 close to the discbound edge of this planner layout. This is prettier in person; the Graphic 45 washi tape is really sparkly, but the sparkle doesn’t show up that well in my photo.

So there you have it: That’s one possible way to make a daily planner layout for April 21st or whatever day your calendar says it is when you happen to find this page.

Thanks so much for taking a look at my project! I really appreciate your interest. Happy planning!

Posted By: Amy Solovay

Craft Ideas for the Month of April

Happy April, crafty friends!

Are you interested in finding creative, fun, useful, unique, interesting and engaging craft ideas for the month of April? Whether you enjoy needlecrafts, paper crafts, or some other sorts of crafts, you’ll find many possibilities for lovely things you could be creating. I’ve rounded up a bunch of project ideas and suggestions for April craft ideas you can use this month. If you have other suggestions to add to this list, I invite you to post a comment at the end letting me and the other readers here know about them.

April Holiday Crafts

Earth Day Crafts

Fabric Crochet Tote Bag: Free Crochet Pattern

Earth Day is coming up soon. This year, Earth Day will happen on Monday, April 22, 2024. I have a huge list of recycled crafts and upcycled crafts you might want to check out if you’re interested in making crafting a part of your Earth Day (or everyday!) celebrations.

One possible idea is to upcycle old sheets or garments and transform them into useful projects like the fabric crochet tote bag pictured above. If you’d like to make a bag like this one for yourself, you’re welcome to use the free pattern posted here at this website. I also have bunches of other rag crochet patterns available for you to use.

April Planner Crafts

April Garden Journal Pages

If you maintain a physical planner, junk journal, scrapbook, or art journal, you might want to decorate your April calendar pages, journal pages or scrapbooking layouts with seasonal stamped images or embellishments. I invite you to check out the following pages for ideas:

Garden Journal Pages: This page has information on how to put together April garden journal pages plus additional pages for the other months besides just April.
How to Create Your Own Planners and Calendars
How to Make Your Own Academic Planner: School Diary DIY Calendar Project Idea

Spring Craft Ideas

Get Your Spring Cleaning On! You Can Make Yourself a Puff Lace Crochet Dishcloth or Washcloth With This Free Crochet Pattern.

Spring has already sprung; the first day of spring this year was Tuesday, March 19, 2024. I hope your spring got off to an enjoyable start.

Are you ready to get your spring cleaning on? If so, I offer you bunches of free patterns to use for making your cleaning supplies. Check out earth-friendly upcycled scrubbies HERE, and make yourself some irresistibly pretty spring dishcloths with these crochet dishcloth patterns.

The projects posted above are just a small sampling of the ideas posted on this website. I’ve put together a list of spring crafts that are seasonally appropriate for April crafting in many regions of the Western hemisphere. Of course, if the weather in your neighborhood is still wintery, please feel free to continue using this list of winter craft ideas instead.