Phineas and Ferb are gonna do it all! . . . → Read More: Month of Love, Day 3: Phineas + Ferb
In which I fall in love with crocheting toys. . . . → Read More: Amigurumi Smitten
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“What can I make with this yarn?“
Over the years I’ve compiled scads of ideas (and posts) on what to make with handspun yarn, banana yarn, hemp yarn, even handspun organic cotton (which I keep selling out of, but look for a few more colors tomorrow morning!). After almost 4 years of this yarny adventure it’s time for a the Mother Of All Lists. Let’s do it! Patterns for Banana yarn Patterns for Hemp Laceweight Patterns for Handspun Organic Cotton Patterns for 1 skein of handspun yarn Part 1 Patterns for 1 skein of handspun yarn Part 2 Knitting patterns for handspun yarn (for boys) Knit gift patterns Knitting patterns worth buying Granny Square patterns Crochet Patterns for handspun yarn Sweater patterns for handspun yarn If I’m missing YOUR favorite patterns, share them in the comments! PS. Want the yarn and the pattern to . . . → Read More: 40+ Patterns for Handmade Yarn I’m honoring National Craft Month by posting something crafty that catches my eye every weekday. Share your favorite crafty finds in the comments! I love Crochet By Faye‘s idea for celebrating National Craft Month – adopt a designer! You can read all the details in her post. The general idea is to pick a designer every day for the rest of the month and do something to help them succeed: blog about them, recommend them, buy a pattern! I love this idea and will be incorporating here my already-planned National Craft Month blogging. I’m also going to spend the month looking for more designers to feature in my bricks+mortar shop, A Novel Yarn. If you know of a designer (especially one that works with handspun or handdyed yarn), let me know in the comments! Remember how last week I got a bit crochet-obsessed? Yeah, that didn’t fade away. I’m crocheting a bunch of these hexagons to make a blanket for my bedroom (lots and lots and lots of green scrap yarn). I start with cute little circles, crochet as many of those as I feel like and then I move onto, adding the second round. I usually do one round of that and jump right to the last round: And at this point, I stop and move onto the next hex. Because though it’s not a full hexagon left, I want to join them together as I add the last brown, hex-making round. Every circle is going to be hex-ed with the same brown yarn (I think it’s an alpaca/wool blend, but a big bag was given to me un-labeled, so I’m just guessing. Since I want to join . . . → Read More: Hex-Love It’s been a while since I’ve talked about yarn (the New Year brought new projects), but it is still my first love. Sometimes I forget and wander into the land of launching a yarn store in 12 days or teaching other yarnies…but all it takes is one great pattern to pull me right back to my first love! This granny square is what drew my fervent adoration this week. Or maybe it was this entire rainbow-colored blog. Or maybe it was Mercedes of Kitchen Sink Dyeworks (she’s kitchensinkdye on Twitter), who is crocheting the most amazing granny squares from her handpainted yarn.
(yarn dyed, squares crocheted and photograph taken by Mercedes) But once I fell into this granny square vortex, I started scarfing up granny square information. How to Granny from Meet Me at Mike’s How to Granny from Purl Bee And then I . . . → Read More: Cro-Crazy |
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