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A sneak peek at Organic Embroidery by Meredith Woolnough
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Organic Embroidery by Meredith Woolnough is a seriously fun book filled with nature inspired designs. Woolnough works in thread and sews her designs on to water soluble stabilizer paper, which is then dissolved away, leaving open designs that call to mind the sea and nature. …
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The trials of a center panel
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I tried my very best to avoid the doom scrolling this week, and I managed to finish the second side panel for my mother’s wrap. The row counts and the shell counts across the top match in both panels, so I am super happy with…
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Crochet in Warehouse 13, Eureka, and School Spirits (or not)
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes I’ve been watching lots of shows on television lately, so it should come as no surprise that I have two fun crochet finds and one crochet fake to share with you. Each of the garments I found comes from a show that doesn’t really have…
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A peek at The Quilt Design Coloring Workbook
Estimated reading time: 2 Minutes Quilting books are full of inspiration for crochet projects! And I like quilts. I like them a lot. What I hate is sewing. Sewing is a chore that makes me want to never touch fiber again, yet I am a textile crafter, so what to…
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Patterns from my old blog
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes For various reasons, I am taking my old blog down. It was a good place to learn about blogging and how I want to present myself to the world, but it’s time to let it go. However, I wanted to preserve the patterns I had…
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Weekly update: The doom scrolling won
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes And another week of chaos has passed. I don’t know how to keep myself from doom scrolling for hours. It’s eating into my crochet time, but I keep thinking I will find a magical answer to how the chaos in the United States ends if…
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Review of Knit the Sky
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Lea Redmond’s Knit the Sky, as the title says, it’s not a crochet book. It isn’t a traditional knitting book, either. It’s a book of project ideas open to personal interpretation. You could take one of Redmond’s ideas and craft it in many mediums. It’s…
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A Peek at Strange Material
Estimate reading time: 3 minutes I pulled Leanne Prain’s Strange Material to share as an inspiration book this week. It’s a book about textiles and art and storytelling. Some of the artists presented are quite overt and use words and photographic images in their pieces to tell a story while…
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Weekly project update: The shawl grows and a mess of little circles develops
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I think I only have crazy busy weeks now. I keep waiting for a calm week that will allow me to feel like I not only got a bunch of work done but also make me feel like I caught up a bit. I need…
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A Peek at Fairy Tale Fashion
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes This week’s inspiration book is Fairy Tale Fashion by Colleen Hill. I think some people would refer to this as a coffee table book because it meets the definition by being large and well-illustrated. What people forget in classing such things, though, is that many…
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