Posted by Underground Crafter on November 14, 2011 |
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I have two new knitting stitch guides to review today: the Vogue Knitting Stitchionary Volume Six: Edgings from Sixth & Spring Books and Knitting Stitches VISUAL Encyclopedia by Sharon Turner. I think it is fairly obvious that I’m a crochet stitch guide junkie. (Evidence: my reviews of 20+ stitch guides here and of the new Crochet Stitches [...]
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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 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 June 3, 2011 |
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After several weeks of posting about my tortoise-like progress on the fantail baby blanket, I finally finished it over the long weekend and am now posting my first F.O. Friday with Tami’s Amis. I took the pictures on a chess table in Riverside Park. I’m glad to finally be finished. It seems that people I [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on May 25, 2011 |
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I have not made much progress on my baby blanket this week. Yesterday, I chaperoned a group of students attending a conference and brought it with me. I imagined that I would crochet for three hours. But there were computers at the conference center and instead I found myself drawn into entering Sew, Mama, Sew! giveaways on other [...]
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