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Lucet, French Knitting or Kumihimo?

| November 28, 2012

Maybe you dont even know of them as such.. In short, they are very similar to macramé, only instead of just folding the cords you either put them round or through things. Many of us as children had the wooden dolly with 4 prongs at the top, eg it was a usually wooden or plastic tube […]

knitting

| November 25, 2012

Now. I’m no knitter. Can’t stand it. But I saw this and had to give it a try. My sadness is I wish crochet entrelac had the same woven out come. The instructions for this can be found at  

pompoms!

| November 23, 2012

I got some reusable pompom makers. The small ones are harder as the wool is big in proportion. I could have made the bigger ones more dense looking back but first go and all that

A relevant funny!

| September 13, 2012

For those of you who live with a crochetter, or know one.. Much can be learned. Thanks to the lovely people at gocomics see the comic

Tamzins blanket day 3

| September 12, 2012

On international crochet day. Here’s how the blanket looks now.

Tamzins wool is here!

| September 7, 2012

Just as I’m finishing Stuarts star the wool for my next project arrived. Yay

Something that always looks good..

| September 2, 2012

Tunisian cables: A good youtube video on proper cables. You can also fake cables using double crochets in lines below which look equally effective, and are a lot less fiddly but nothing beats the real deal.

Tamzin’s blanket! (Planning)

| August 29, 2012

After a good while spent looking through many of my stitch books, I now fear I should have gotten her looking at my pattern books instead.. After all, the original plan was white/cream textured blanket.. Heres what she picked, and she wants it in buff fleck and black (Pictures from the Interlocking Crochet book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Interlocking-Crochet-Techniques-Patterns-Projects/dp/1440212392/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346267838&sr=8-1) […]

Stuart’s star

| August 29, 2012

Well. This is made following Mikey’s tutorial from youtube. However. I do neef to point out when he says 5 hours for a baby one. This had taken so far around 6 and its no where near big enough for a baby.

Been asked to do a blanket!

| August 23, 2012

As you know I like to make blankets, its what makes me happy. Someones asked me to do her one, and I know I have a few others to make.. Things like a 3rd tardis do need a bit of a gap before I do that, and my friends scarf (Im sorry its a banner!) […]

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