Posted by Underground Crafter on May 10, 2013 |
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Way back in February, I learned my cousin had a newborn daughter via Facebook. Her name is Brooklyn. (Yes, like me, my cousin was born in Brooklyn, but he hasn’t lived there for about 20 years). I decided to make her a baby blanket using some stash yarn. I started with the motif from Frankie [...]
Tags: african flower square tutorial, caron, caron one pound, central park, crochet, destash, ellen gormley, family, FO Friday, frankie brown, granny square, jelly mould blanket, lion brand, lion brand vanna's choice, lion brand yarn studio, made in k-town, red heart, red heart super saver, sunny spread, surmount the stash 2013, tami's amis
Posted by Underground Crafter on March 11, 2013 |
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Every Monday during National Crochet Month 2013, I’ll be interviewing crocheters. Today’s interview is with Johnny Vasquez, a crochet teacher. As a crochet and knitting teacher, I’m constantly looking for online resources to share with my students so they have additional supports when I’m not around. I can’t remember how I first came across New [...]
Tags: caron simply soft, complete photo guide to crochet, craftory media, creative commons, crochet, donnie vasquez, erika knight, fibershed project, fiberstory.tv, harmony guides, interview, jessica hicks, johnny vasquez, kickstarter, knitting, lion brand, lion brand yarn studio, loopy, margaret hubert, natcromo13, new dress a day, new stitch a day, rebecca burgess, red heart, simple crocheting: a complete how-to-crochet workshop with 20 projects, social media, teaching, ustream, yarn craft academy, yarn nation
Posted by Underground Crafter on February 6, 2013 |
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It’s amazing what you find out through Facebook. For example, I had no idea my cousin’s wife was even pregnant until she posted pictures of her newborn, Brooklyn Sophia. Being of the old fashioned naming sort, I assumed that Brooklyn was an adjective describing Sophia. (As in “born in Brooklyn” Sophia.) Later, I came to [...]
Tags: and all the stars, baby blanket, brooklyn, brooklyn nets, frankie brown, jelly mould blanket, kindle fire, prophets of science fiction, reading, red heart, red heart super saver, robert a. heinlein, small things, starship troopers, stranger in a strange land, surmount the stash 2013, tami's amis, wipw, yarn along
Posted by Underground Crafter on December 1, 2012 |
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I’m so glad that I said the Ripple Mania CAL giveaway winners would be selected randomly because it would have been impossible to choose my favorite projects from among all of the great entries! I had a wonderful time during the CAL, and I hope you did, too. I want to thank everyone who participated [...]
Tags: abhall76, alottastitches, classic ripple, eleggant hooks, eyelet ripple infinity scarf, izybit, leisure arts, linda74, lion brand, magique enterprises, melissagreen, myissag, red heart, ripple mania CAL, winner
Posted by Underground Crafter on November 26, 2012 |
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…to enter the Ripple Mania CAL giveaway for your chance to win amazing prizes from Leisure Arts, Lion Brand Yarn, Magique Enterprises, and Red Heart. You can find all the details in this blog post! Share your pictures by 11:50 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, November 28! And, for all you knitters out there, you have until Thursday, [...]
Tags: 30 min-knits: what can you knit in half an hour or less?, barron's educational books, carol meldrum, leisure arts, lion brand, magique enterprises, red heart, ripple mania CAL
Posted by Underground Crafter on November 15, 2012 |
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Whether you’re just joining in or you’ve been participating in the Ripple Mania Crochet-a-long since October, I know you’re excited to hear more about the prizes! The Ripple Mania CAL has four fantastic sponsors, Coats & Clark, Leisure Arts, Lion Brand Yarn, and Magique Enterprises, who have each put together a great prize package. This post describes the prizes, [...]
Tags: 40 Favorite Ripple Afghans, Beauty of the Earth Afghans, candy color ripple cowl, crochet, crochet today, eleggant ergonomic crochet hook handle, eleggant hooks, facebook, flickr, giveaway, leisure arts, lion brand, lion brand amazing, magique enterprises, red heart, red heart with love, Ripple Afghans to Crochet, ripple effect, ripple mania CAL, ripples, Rippling Effects, susan bates, twitter, underground crafter, underground crafter ravelry group, Vanna's Choice Color It Beautiful Afghans, windsor ripple throw
Posted by Underground Crafter on November 7, 2012 |
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This week is all about squaring up a ripple – how to combine a ripple pattern with a straight edged stitch. This week’s Ripple Mania PDF includes a baby blanket project. I’m also very excited to announce two more sponsors for the Ripple Mania prizes: Magique Enterprises and Lion Brand Yarn are joining Red Heart and Leisure Arts by contributing [...]
Tags: crochet, leisure arts, lion brand, magique enterprises, red heart, ripple mania CAL
Posted by Underground Crafter on November 2, 2012 |
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It’s been three weeks since I last participated in F.O. Friday, but I’ve actually finished quite a few projects in that time. I made three secret projects using this yarn, along with about eight swatches, for Kollabora, a new maker community. The big reveal was supposed to be this week, but it was delayed due [...]
Tags: crochet, eyelet ripple infinity scarf, FO Friday, kollabora, leisure arts, magique enterprises, red heart, ripple mania CAL, scrappy ripple scarf, secret project, tami's amis
Posted by Underground Crafter on October 31, 2012 |
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This week is all about ripple variations – how to make your ripples pointier, lacier, more or less textured, and so on. This week’s Ripple Mania PDF includes four stitch patterns and one project. Due to Hurricane Sandy, I didn’t take as many pictures as I would usually, but here are the patterns you will [...]
Tags: blogtoberfest 2012, curly pops, i saw you dancing, leisure arts, red heart, ripple mania CAL
Posted by Underground Crafter on October 22, 2012 |
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Today, I’m interviewing Amy Shelton, the co-owner of Crochetville and the current President of the Crochet Guild of America. Amy is obviously a big supporter of the crochet community, both online and “in real life,” and she happens to be a pretty busy lady, too – so I’m really glad she had some time to [...]
Tags: amy shelton, blogtoberfest 2012, cgoa, chainlink, complete photo guide to crochet, crochet, crochet guild of america, crochet tips and tricks, crochetville, curly pops, cyber crochet, decorative crochet, designing vashti, donna hulka, dora ohrenstein, doris chan, dreamcatcher crystal earrings, edie eckman, i saw you dancing, interview, juanita quinones, knitter's pride dreamz, lily chin, magic crochet, margaret hubert, ravelry, red heart, stitches events, vashti braha
