Firstly, can you help solve a puzzle? Susan Crawford posted a photograph of some Kangaroo yarn on her blog (scroll down to the bottom of the post). If anybody has any information about the provenence of the yarn or the makers, please do leave a comment. The always interesting Worn Through blog has a very […]
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Have you been wondering when @platea would have their next online art performance? Well, fear not for it is this very month! If have always wanted to be part of an international art fair, but didn’t have the chance, then this is the performance for you. @Platea founder, An Xiao tells us more in her
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The book that I am reviewing today has been of invaluable help to me in understanding the nuts and bolts of craft skills and how we learn them, which of course, is my geekdom. In his fascinating book, The Art of the Maker, first published in 1994, crafts critic Peter Dormer discusses both amateur and
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I’m describing this tutorial not so much as a pattern as a recipe: I think that by following the instructions below and tweaking them to you own likes, you will be able to produce a variety of flowers with just these instructions. In order to make your own knitted flower, you’ll need to knit a
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Short row shaping seems to elicit a marmite reaction: you either love it or you hate it. I’m firmly in the ‘love it’ camp, thinking it is a great technique to use and very useful too. So, what is it? Essentially a short row is a row which is not fully knitted, just as the
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