Things to make & do with a VERY healthy preoccupation with yarn
A close friend collects Orangutans, which I find super adorable. For Christmas 2010 I thought I’d make her up a little tiny one to go on her desk, to go with some other gifts I’d collected throughout the year for her. Upon completion decided it’d make a great little pattern to share with others, remembering some monkey plushies I had myself as a child. The pattern is free, easy (advanced...
There’s a LOT of crochet star patterns out there, and several great free ones at that. Around a year ago now though I was embarking upon a project where I needed to create ‘under the sea’ themed knit or crochet items for an exhibition for the Adelaide Fringe. Called Knitting Nancy Dives In, the exhibit went really well, and garnered both excited local radio & newspaper coverage. Inspired by two...
Today only, Interweave Knits is selling a downloadable 10c Digital Edition of their Interweave Knits Accessories issue. 60+ kit accessories patterns for 10c? Can you say “Massive bargains, yes please?”? Interweave Knits Accessories 2009: Digital Edition – Interweave....
Whilst clicking about on Ravelry, I came across a cute Popular Yarns Meme, which was supposedly started on Feather & Fan, but the original link is now gone, the original was for the top 50 yarns, but its SO HARD to keep that kind of list up to date, so I’ve snipped it to the top 25… 😉 Definitely changes to the list since even last month when the other...