Posted by Underground Crafter on January 14, 2013 |
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Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Karia (also known as KoutureCrochet on Ravelry). As a Brooklyn native, I’m always excited to meet crocheters in my home borough online – somehow, it often seems easier than meeting them in real life! Karia is organizing an interesting Kickstarter project and also co-owns an Etsy shop. You can [...]
Tags: alpaca, audiobooks, brooklyn, camel yarn, crochet, drop spindle, dyeing, etsy, facebook, interview, kickstarter, kouture crochet, kouturecrochet, merino wool, natural fibers, ravelry, sheep, spinning yarn, wool, yarn
Posted by Underground Crafter on February 24, 2012 |
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Last Sunday, I took the Kitchen Safe Yarn Dyeing class at Lion Brand Yarn Studio. We were asked to bring two hanks of yarn from a long list of mostly wool Lion Brand yarns. Naturally, I made three hanks from stash yarn. Side note – It is almost harder to get a ball of yarn [...]
Tags: bernat lana, cake gel, destash, dyeing, ebay, FO Friday, hank, keep on knitting in the free world, kitchen safe yarn dyeing, kool aid, lion brand, lion brand fishermen's wool, lion brand yarn studio, skein, surmount the stash 2012, tami's amis, wool
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. Great Gifts for Yarncrafters There are [...]
Tags: a stash addict, amigurumi, beyond knit and purl, bitsy knits, black friday, chopped tomatoes design kitchen, citadel jewelry, cooperative press, craft kits, craftsy, craftzine, crochet, crochet classes, crochet stitches visual encyclopedia: 300 stitch patterns edgings and more, crocheted softies: 18 adorable animals from around the world, crochetville, cyber monday, dee stanziano, dee's hooks & stitches, denise interchangeable crochet set, drop spindle, dyeing, fresh stitches, funky monkey, gift guide, kate atherley, knit local: celebrating america's homegrown yarns, knitpicks, knitting, knitting classes, knitting stitches visual encyclopedia, kollage, laurel hill, local yarn shop, lys, maine woods yarn and fiber, robyn chachula, sharon turner, small business saturday, spinning, spinning yarn, stacey trock, sublime stitching, swoon fibers, tanis gray, this took forever woven labels, tulip etimo, vogue knitting live
Posted by Underground Crafter on August 20, 2011 |
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I’m really excited to interview Machelle Salmeen from the Chopped Tomatoes Design Kitchen today. I have actually been planning this interview since late June, but due to some bizarre email happenings, her responses just arrived this week. I was first exposed to Machelle through Sew Mama Sew‘s May Giveaway Day. You may remember that I [...]
Tags: artists project earth, cardiff, chopped tomatoes, chopped tomatoes design kitchen, choppedtomatoes, creativity, crochet, crochet me, dyeing, how can i recycle this, interview, knitting, machelle salmeen, may giveaway day, pesticide action network uk, ravelry, sew mama sew, spinning, spinning yarn, twitter
Posted by Underground Crafter on August 10, 2011 |
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So this week, I used my sewing machine for the first time in 3 years. Yep, it has been lying dormant since before I moved in with MC and after the move, my sewing set-up was never finalized. After my paper piecing adventure at my last Dear Jane class at the City Quilter, I decided [...]
Tags: baby blanket, baby lock, beads, bonnie hunter, buttons, city quilter, crochet, cross stitch, dear jane, dear jane block c-1, dear jane block d-13, dear jane block h-13, dear jane block j-4, dorothy wood, dyeing, embroidery, fabric strip rugs, freshly pieced, giveaway, hexagon, lucinda ganderton, needlepoint, patchwork, pompoms, quilter's choice, quilting, quiltville, sequins, smocking, tami's amis, tassels, ultimate book of quilting cross stitch and needlecraft, wip wednesday, wips, wipw
