Sample of Tunisian crochet honeycomb stitch.
Entries Tagged as ‘Crochet’
August 28, 2009
Explore the New “Black” in Craft Fashion – Crochet
The image above ( Lily Chin designed lace crochet dress found in the first issue of Interweave Crochet – 2004 under “Lace Dress”) and many others inspires me to learn and make more crochet garments that are fashionable and practical. I will always be a knitter, but in the past two years I’ve developed a [...]
July 7, 2009
“Learn to Crochet” starts July 20!
There are a few spaces left! If you’re interested please check in with the Naked Sheep Knit Shop via the link posted here. I’m excited to teach Learn to Crochet in a few weeks at the Naked Sheep. I’ve posted details and a link to the Naked Sheep site in an earlier post. Actually, teaching [...]
June 20, 2009
Offering classes this summer at the Naked Sheep
Summer’s here and I’m teaching a few classes at the Naked Sheep in lovely North Portland. I’m pretty excited about the crocheted cardigan class as I’ve discovered myself that you can make pretty and stylish garments in crochet. It’s not just about granny squares, afghans and toilet roll cozies (not that those are bad things).
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May 18, 2009
My Fiber Ed at the Knit and Crochet Show
I attended the Knit and Crochet Show this week and was fortunate enough to take two classes.
Fine shaping in crochet with Lily Chin. I recommend taking this class to anyone who has felt frustrated or limited with construction and design options in crochet. Lily’s excellent class helped open doorways to understanding how to shape garments [...]
May 16, 2009
Amigurumi Joy
I forgot to mention I bought a few more Amigurumi books during my San Francisco trip. Actually, I really need to write about and post some pictures from the trip but maybe in the near future.
I shelled out a bunch of dough for crochet books in general. I’ve been finding myself more and more drawn [...]
March 3, 2009
My Frog Amigurumi Pattern is Up!
After avoiding having to use GoDaddy to get my site hosted, I’ve finally created a place for my patterns. OMG GoDaddy has got to be one of the sleaziest sites out there with all the additional crud they sneak into your cart. ” No thanks!” I said. Their site makes me feel like I’m being [...]
February 19, 2009
Meet my sentimental frog
I’ve been having issues with my camera fuzzing up. User error obviously. I actually was able to whip up “Frog” in about an evening. I took some time the next day during lunch to construct him, and I added the scarf later. He’s got sort of a soulful and sentimental air about him. As he [...]
January 23, 2009
Crochet isn’t just for Granny anymore
Edit 1/25/09 – Please note I linked to the wrong pattern book for the Dusty Miller sweater pictured above. The correct book is Crochet Aran Sweaters by the same author. Sadly it looks like Amazon doesn’t have this book. It may be out of print.
Let me confess here. I once had a very low opinion [...]
January 20, 2009
Scratch that… no, unravel it
In the previous post I mentioned that I would dye machine knit blanks of my cotton yarn, assuming that I would knit all of these up in the handy knitting machine I bought for making hats and things. I tried making a long blank with three 109 yard skeins of cotton and discovered that this [...]
