Posted by Underground Crafter on November 24, 2011 |
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Happy Thanksgiving! In the U.S., the day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday) signifies the official start of the holiday shopping season. In the spirit of keeping the holidays a little more handmade and small business and a little less mass produced and corporate, I’m sharing several holiday gift guides today. Handmade gifts to make This time [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on July 25, 2011 |
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My recent freeform project – inspired by my Year of Projects goal to work my way through Crochet Master Class: Lessons and Projects from Today’s Top Crocheters and the Crochet Liberation Front’s July freeform CAL – has reminded me how much I love my stitch guides. I use them for inspiration for my own projects, [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on July 24, 2011 |
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(This post is part of my Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class series. You can find my first three posts on freeform crochet here, here, and here.) This is my first Sunday post for Year of Projects. I have been posting my updates on Monday, but since I have finished (!) my first project, I thought I’d post early. In [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on July 21, 2011 |
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Here’s my weekly update on my craft goals! Personal crafting goals 2. Work my way through Crochet Master Class. My latest update on my adventures in freeform was posted on Monday. I’m considering moving on to another chapter for my next update… Professional crafting goals 1. Read Producing Video Podcasts. and 2. Create and post [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on July 18, 2011 |
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(This post is part of my Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class series. You can find my first two posts on freeform crochet here and here.) This posts describes my progression through Days 11 through 17 of the Crochet Liberation Front’s Freeform CAL. This week, I took more detours from the instructions than in previous [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on July 14, 2011 |
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I’m keeping my weekly update of my craft goals brief today. Personal crafting goals 2. Work my way through Crochet Master Class. Instead of using the patterns, I’d like to create my own project (for myself and/or for teaching) for each technique/skill in the book. I’m still working on my freeform project, a cat blanket [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on July 10, 2011 |
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I forgot all about updating you on my craft goals on Thursday! (This is actually a good thing – I was busy doing stuff rather than dreaming up explanations for my blog .) Personal crafting goals 2. Work my way through Crochet Master Class. This week has been pretty consumed by my baby steps into [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on July 4, 2011 |
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(This post is part of my Come Blog-A-Long: Crochet Master Class series.) My first adventure from Crochet Master Class is freeform crochet. I hadn’t intended to start with freeform, but since the Crochet Liberation Front (CLF) is having a freeform crochet a long (CAL) during July and my recent interview with Margaret Hubert included so [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on July 1, 2011 |
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Earlier this morning, I posted about Crochet Master Class and my plans to participate in Ravelry’s Come Blog-A-Long year of projects by blogging through the book. I have today off from work, so I was reading through my various blog subscriptions on Google Reader, and I discovered that the Crochet Liberation Front is hosting a [...]
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