Mighty Ugly encourages us crafty types to get over their need to make Martha Stewart-perfect projects by taking whatever scraps you have on hand and deliberating setting out to make a truly hideous critter. The site’s owner invites readers to send in their pics or video clips of their ugly-by-choice craft projects and even offers Mighty Ugly workshops in the Vancouver area.

On some occasions we set out to make something fabulous only to find our crafting reach exceeds our grasp. If you’ve ever had a craft project turn out disappointingly distant from the image in the magazine or website describing it, you’ll appreciate CraftFail. This community website allows crafters to share their worst projects and laugh over the ways crafting doesn’t always meet our ideals and expectations. Melting polymer clay angels, misshapen bath salt balls, deflated pom-poms and hilariously mis-sized sewing and knitting products all appear here. The blog includes categories for bath and body; general crafts; holidays; kids; pets and more. Visit the website next time you want to remember other crafters sometimes fall short of their goals as well, or upload pics of your project so you can salvage some humor out of the time you put in on a project that somehow didn’t quite turn out the way you pictured it.

If you sometimes find yourself aghast rather than entranced by the products of other crafters, you’ll get at least a few chuckles out of Kraptastic Krafts. The kind of projects you see at church bazaars wonder what the person who made them was thinking are featured here: knitted hats to hide your toilet paper, overly whimsical dish towels and misshapen crocheted potholders.

Kitchen crafters, or anyone who has ever giggled while checking out the display case in some bakeries, will want to surf over to Cake Wrecks to see some hilariously bad example of cake decorating.