egg carton fairy lights thrifted holiday trees mini felt stockings tomorrowland trees woolly decorations jingle mouse ornament ice wreath celestine knitted star froebel star no sew holiday ornament woodland ornament mitten ornament gumdrop wreath felt wool pomander little house ornament advent calendar pocket advent calendar blanket stockings b...
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edit sorry we had a technical issue and had to delete this post. were reposting so those that left a comment sorry ok i have to admit im not the one finding these awesome link posts i have a friend whos my pimp when it comes to this sorta stuff. so thanks friend and whipup readers enjoy. this list comes to you from everyday beautiful. an awesome list. i8217......
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made with lots of trepidation with the help of these two tutorials . i think it turned out well considering its the first time i used my new zipper foot i just need to remember to give more allowance on either end of the zipper to avoid the bunchedup look you see here. i also have a hemmer foot that ive yet to try and i called my friendly janome saleslady today to ask her ......
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no doubt many of us quilters all have this same problem what to do with our fabric stash here are some articles ive found on the subject. organizing your stash into books fabric folding scrap users system fabric stash organization and tutorial fabric justice fabric organization do you have any tips or other resources to share how do you organize yo......
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on a beautiful crisp fall morning 5 ladies set out to rhinebeck ny. im sure youve heard of the ny sheep and wool festival i mean.. ive heard of it but you cannot appreciate the magnitude of it until you go and experience it for yourself. it was a 3hour beautiful drive with a lot of laughter chatter and knitting not by me my hands were busy steering throug......
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another season another knitterly meetup this weekend i met some dear friends in boston for a knitting reunion of sorts. we knit cowls like mad for our weekend in philadelphia last spring but this time around it was all about mittens. sarah minty jennie megan julia v pam julia f nova ashley and i descended upon boston knitters maritza diana and caro . sadly st......
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caro pointed us to the how i knit purl crochet or spin group on flickr. members of the group upload photos and video of their techniques for things like how they hold the yarn while knitting. the picture above is frecklegirls crochet style . read this article comment on this article ......
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since i am giving you links to so many awesome sewing tutorials let me show you a few that i am going to do next. 1. double sided splat mat i just need to find some laminated cotton. 2. diaper and wipes case giggles picked out some dog fabric for this one already. 3. memory game of numbers 4. happy birthday banner 5. baby grab ball 6. best bunnies 7. tooth f......
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im heading off to seattle and since ill be there when we cast on for the knitting olympics or the ravelympics whatever i have opted to select my knitting project beforehand so i can take it along with me. and the winner is drumr oll the february lady sweater knit out of red cascade 220 in color 9404. stash yarn. i ended up finalizin......
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the knitting olympics will be upon us soon so i need to choose a project to knit something that will be a challenge to knit within 17 days that will push me but not something that will push me to the point of giving up. we dont want that. since ill be traveling during part of that time something that is easy to follow is great. since ill be traveling in the pacific north......
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link . can anyone explain why its called a serger in america in australia its called an overlocker .wh ats it called where you are......
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still working my way through fos. i know this can get a little old and when i get back from touring with d ill have some progress shots of what im actually working on. in the meantime patterns razor shell neckwarmer on rav yarn blue sky alpaca alpacasilk 2 skeins held doubled needles us 7 4.5 mm thoughts first and foremost......
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its been a minute hasnt it yesterday teresa and i went to northampton to visit tara. we ate delicious breakfast peanut butter pancakes and then shopped at valley fabrics and webs. i picked up a pattern to make what promises to be a stressfree quilt. well see about stress free. heres the fabric before i mess it up. i sewed a few small gifts as a......
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so i pretty much disappeared after that last post. almost a month i think that is the longest i have gone without blogging since starting this monster almost two years ago. where to start im sure there are some outstanding questions about the tweedy aran that i have not replied to yet so i will try to start digging those out and reply. or you can always write me again and say ......
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last friday i took my last exam then promptly drove to the airport to meet up with ashley caro christy diana jennie julia maritza megan minty nova pam and specs in philadelphia. unfortunately nova hurt her back and jennie got sick and then got a phd so i missed them providing plenty of reasons to plan another knitting weekend. the rest of us commu......
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while i was in the uk my sister handed me a piece of fabric a gift from jodi and asked me to make it into something for her. we decided a makeup bag would be a good choice for the cute fabric and i had the brainwave of adding a layer of clear vinyl over the lining to protect the lining fabric from getting makeup smudges all over it. i used splityarns zippered wristlet tuto......
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dpn project holder making stitch markers beaded stitch markers easy nowire stitch markers tiger tail stitch markers polymer clay stitch markers beaded stitch markers memory wire stitch markers row counter marker i think this is ingenious book for circular needles hanging circular needle storage circ hanger from pant leg ......
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squirrels......
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it had bad mojo all over it. i started a shedir hat with caros destashed cottonease to pass the time while i waited for my knit picks order to come in with yarn for the badly drawn boy hat. i wanted something complicated yet brief and it seemed perfect. but alas my gauge was seriously flawed and i was really far into it by the time i figured that out. so now you see it now y......
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i am by nature a bit of a nonconformist. in knitting terms this means that i have an active though often subconscious reluctance to knit the patterns that take blogland by storm the ones every knitblogger knits. this regardless of how lovely how ingeniously constructed the pattern its not a condemnation of the design just a innate tempermental avoidance of cr......
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