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The New Crochet Stitch Dictionary: A review
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes I am one step closer to my ultimate goal of owning all of the crochet stitch dictionaries! Someday, people will come and study at the “Catherine Madjaric Library of Crochet Stitch Dictionaries”. This will be my legacy! My latest acquisition is The New Crochet Stitch…
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Copacetic Boyfriend Sweater
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes “Hey, Mom, can you make a 90s style boyfriend sweater with a little fitting around the waist and not too floppy arms?” As “This Here Giraffe” starts playing in my head, I remember my own perfect “boyfriend” sweater. It was big and baggy and wooly…
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Say Yuck to Green
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Everyone has a favorite color. Mine is periwinkle. There’s something about that purply-blue color that brings me joy. I have vacillated since childhood between a true blue and periwinkle as my favorite, but I have never reached outside the bounds of blue’s cool and serene…
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The Met Gala!
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes I love watching the Met Gala! It is so much fun to see what people wear-from the fabulously fashionable to the fantastically fabulous. I watch every year and come away inspired and amused and happy. This year was no different. I loved the various interpretations…
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Book Review: Crochet Every Way Stitch Dictionary
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes I have a lot of books in my crochet library. Some are books of projects, some are books of stitch patterns, some are books about other crafts, some are just plain art books that I find beautiful and inspiring. I do have a very favorite…
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The Book of Circles: Inspiration in Graphs
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes Estimated creative inspiration: Incalculable I have a lot of crochet stitch dictionaries. I really like collecting them because they are fun to look at and very educational for me. What they are not, always, is inspirational. I can look through and think I would like…
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The Stellar Sleeves Sweater
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes One of the chief complaints about crocheted garments is that they are not stretchy nor can they be fitted. If you have looked at any sort of social media post discussing crocheted clothing, I am certain you have seen this sort of comment, among many…
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How to move from swatch to project
Estimated read time: 8 minutes I think when many people begin to crochet they hate swatching. It seems like just one more stupid thing to keep you from starting the project you are so excited to start, not to mention being a potential waste of yarn. When you begin making…
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The tale of the haunted spinning wheel
Estimated read time: 4 minutes Sometimes when you spin people give you spinning wheels. They do not give you priceless heirlooms that are aesthetically scrumptious, they give away tired wheels that definitely need work and may need parts. The wheels may, as my daughter’s did, come with extra parts that…
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A counting we will go! 2 lazy daisy patterns with endless counting
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Sometimes, I run across a stitch pattern that seems beautiful but is, in fact, evil to work. Often this means I never touch it again, but sometimes it continues to run around in my brain, and I end up pulling it out again and again.…
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