Posted by Underground Crafter on January 1, 2013 |
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Last year, I hosted a Holiday Stashdown Challenge to encourage myself and anyone else who was willing to play along with me to make our holiday gifts early and to use as much stash yarn as possible. The successes: I used up over 3,300 yards of yarn from my stash, made gifts for 14 people, and [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on December 9, 2011 |
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Yay, I can finally share the secret project I was working on because the pattern has been published! (You can download my free Chubby Sheep pattern here.) I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been collaborating with Galler Yarns, a family-run yarn importer in Monroe, New York. I was asked to design some toys using Flore II, [...]
Tags: amigurumi, british goat society, central park, chubby sheep, crochet, FO Friday, galler yarns, galler yarns flore ii, goat, mohair, monroe ny, nylon, ornaments, sheep, south africa, tami's amis, wool
Posted by Underground Crafter on December 5, 2011 |
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I’m excited to share my first free pattern on the blog, Chubby Sheep. This is one of the super secret projects I’ve been working on, in collaboration with Galler Yarns. The Galler Yarns blog has a growing collection of free patterns. They also have a Facebook page. Download Chubby Sheep PDF Pattern. (Note: A correction to Rnd [...]
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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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