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 [...]
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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 October 11, 2011 |
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If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, you know that while I’ve been crocheting continuously for the last 27 years or so, I only decided to pick up knitting again in the last year. I was, frankly, scared of knitting. As a kid, my grandmother introduced me to both crochet and knitting, but [...]
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