Posted by Underground Crafter on September 24, 2012 |
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This post is part of my 2012 Hispanic Heritage Month interview series. I’m thrilled to interview blogger Vanessa Laven today. Vanessa was actually the first person I interviewed on my blog and I’m a regular read of her own wonderful blog, Mixed Martial Arts and Crafts. Vanessa is also Cuban-American and from the NYC area, so I feel [...]
Tags: cancer, che crochet, craftlit, craftzine, crochet, cuba, embroidery, freshstitches, frida kahlo, fu jow pai, hand painted signs, havana, heather ordover, hispanic heritage month 2012, interview, jane eyre, jenny hart, klutz, knitting, kung fu, martial arts, miami, mighty distractable, mixed martial arts and crafts, olivia gulin, tennessee, union city new jersey, vanessa laven, venezuela
Posted by Underground Crafter on April 29, 2012 |
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I know how to do most needlecrafts, but if you’ve been following my blog you will already know that crochet is my true love. Not only is crochet versatile and fast, but, since it is the one craft that I’ve done pretty much continuously since I learned from my grandmother back when I was 9 [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on April 8, 2012 |
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(This post is part of my Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class series. You can read the other posts in this series here.) After a few weeks of taking detours from the lessons in Crochet Master Class: Lessons and Projects from Today’s Top Crocheters, I decided to dive back in with painted crochet. Ferosa Harold, from Trinidad and Tobago, is the [...]
Tags: 12forself2012, 50 fabulous pineapple motifs to crochet, come blog a long, crochet master class, embroidery, embroidery floss, Ferosa Harold, hexagon, jean leinhauser, loops & threads craft cord, painted crochet, rainbow, roy g biv, slow cooker, surmount the stash 2012, trinidad and tobago, trivet, ukranian museum, year of projects, YOP11-12
Posted by Underground Crafter on April 1, 2012 |
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Today’s giveaway is for a book that I really enjoyed reading, Manga Cross-Stitch: Make Your Own Graphic Art Needlework by Helen McCarthy. Unfortunately, the sad truth is that I’m much too lazy for cross-stitch. Every year or so, I try to pick up embroidery or cross-stitch and it never takes. So if you have good [...]
Tags: blogiversary, cross stitch, embroidery, giveaway, helen mccarthy, manga cross stitch, manga cross stitch: make your own graphic art needlework
Posted by Underground Crafter on January 7, 2012 |
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Today, I’m interviewing Linda Wyszynski about her new book, The Complete Photo Guide to Needlework. I’ll also be reviewing the book and giving away my review copy, courtesy of Creative Publishing International. The Interview Linda Wyszynski has been a freelance needlework designer for over 20 years. Her work has appeared in countless books and magazines, [...]
Tags: A Pageant of Pattern for Needlepoint Canvas, bead embroidery, Becky Meverden, book review, complete photo guide to needlework, constant crafter, counted needlework, crafts 'n things, create & decorate, creative embroidery, creative publishing international, crewel, cross stitch, cross stitcher, cross-stitch and needlework, embroidery, giveaway, grace christie, hearthside creations, Helen M. Stevens, interview, joggles, kaffe fassett, Kaffe Fassett's Glorious Color for Needlepoint & Knitting, linda wyszynski, Maggie Lane, Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, mel designs, Melony Bradley, Mrs. Archibald Christie, needlepoint, Phyllis Dobbs, reverse painting, Samplers and Stitches: A Handbook of the Embroiderer's Art, Sherlee Lantz, silk ribbon embroidery, The Embroiderer's Story: Needlework from the Renaissance to the Present Day, the hive, The Myth & Magic of Embroidery, Thomasina Beck, tole decorative painting
Posted by Underground Crafter on December 5, 2011 |
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I’m pleased to review Firefly’s Step-by-Step Encyclopedia of Needlecraft today. I’ll also be hosting a giveaway of the review copy I received from Firefly Books, so read on for details! Book review As the name implies, Firefly’s Step-by-Step Encyclopedia of Needlecraft is a comprehensive needlecraft guide with tons of “over the shoulder” close-up pictures. The book explores [...]
Tags: applique, book review, crochet, embroidery, firefly books ltd, firefly's step-by-step encyclopedia of needlecraft, giveaway, good housekeeping illustrated book of needlecrafts, Good Housekeeping The Illustrated Book of Needlecrafts, knitting, louise dixon, patchwork, quilting, sewing, yarn forward crochet conversion chart
Posted by Underground Crafter on October 21, 2011 |
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After I posted about the awesome class I took with Jenny King at the Lion Brand Yarn Studio, Evelyn from Project: Stash asked me what I thought of the Studio, since she hadn’t been there yet. I decided that today’s post would feature my favorite NYC yarn shops. I often see threads on Ravelry about [...]
Tags: century 21, crochet, downtown yarns, embroidery, jenny king, knit-a-way, knitting, knitty city, la casita yarn shop, lion brand yarn studio, lys, nyc crochet guild, P & S fabrics, project: stash, purl soho, review, seaport yarns, smiley's yarn, string, susan bates silvalume, the yarn company, ukranian museum, yarntopia, yelp
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
Posted by Underground Crafter on August 4, 2011 |
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Tuesday would have been my maternal grandmother’s 85th birthday, and I thought this week would be a good time to show off some of her handiwork on my blog. I was inspired by Barbara from Made in K-town‘s recent posts (#1 and #2) featuring her grandmother’s crochet to do a post highlighting some of my [...]
Tags: amigurumi, bear, central park, crochet, embroidery, family, knitting, made in k-town, sewing
Posted by Underground Crafter on July 6, 2011 |
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If you’ve been reading for a while, you might know that one of my craft goals for the year is to finish my half of the wedding quilt. I lost my quilting mojo a few years ago, and I thought that if I took some quilting classes this summer, it might return (thus making it [...]
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