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 [...]
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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 [...]
June 11, 2008
70’s TV Inspired Knitwear
All this talk about Seventies themed shows like The Sweeney and Life on Mars has gotten me hankering for some 70’s sensibility and style. Vikie Howell may look back on the 80’s with nostalgia, but not me. You know those annoyingly superficial rite-de-passage teen movies from the 80’s? My role in that movie would have [...]
