Posted by Underground Crafter on June 24, 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.) I am having great fun with Bruges lace, which I’m learning from the master herself, Tatyana Mirer, in a three-week class at Knit-A-Way. I’m the only person in the class at the moment, and it is a [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on April 11, 2012 |
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I took two vacation days from work and had a four-day weekend. (Actually, it was a three-and-a-half-day weekend, since I taught my Tunisian Crochet class at the Adult School of Montclair on Monday night.) I was brimming with creative energy, but after thoroughly depressing myself writing this post last week, I forced myself to spend [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on March 11, 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.) The subtitle of this post should be: Unraveled. Yesterday, I learned that squares for Heartmade Blessings, the intended charity recipient of my bullion stitch blocks, cannot contain any black yarn. So last night, this: became this. I [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on February 26, 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.) I was under the weather this week, and I’m taking the Craft Yarn Council Certified Instructor’s Program in Knitting this weekend (14 hours of fun, preceded by many days of swatch making), so I [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on February 12, 2012 |
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(This post is part of my Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class: Lessons and Projects from Today’s Top Crocheters series.) January was filled with huge stressful projects – of the crochet kind as well as of the full-time job kind. In the last two weeks, I’ve turned to some smaller projects that could be easily completed [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on February 5, 2012 |
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(This post is part of my Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class: Lessons and Projects from Today’s Top Crocheters series. You can find my previous Irish crochet posts here, here, and here.) Although some of you had me temporarily swayed to make a belt with my Irish rose motifs after all of last week’s comments, I realized [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on January 29, 2012 |
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(This post is part of my Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class: Lessons and Projects from Today’s Top Crocheters series. You can find my first Irish crochet post here.) Like Ace Frehley, I’m back! Did you miss me? (I missed you!) I skipped my Year of Projects update for the first time ever last week. I [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on January 15, 2012 |
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(This post is part of my Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class series. You can find my other posts in this series here.) I’m really excited today to share an interview with Dr. Carol Ventura, the tapestry crochet master featured in Crochet Master Class. I can’t think of another crocheter who is as associated with a [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on January 8, 2012 |
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(This post is part of my Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class: Lessons and Projects from Today’s Top Crocheters series.) After finishing up with my single crochet entrelac piece last week, I looked back at my Year of Projects poll results for inspiration. Irish crochet, bead crochet, and wire crochet were in a three way tie [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on January 1, 2012 |
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Happy New Year!!! I wish you the best for a happy, healthy, and creative 2012! (This post is part of my Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class: Lessons and Projects from Today’s Top Crocheters series. To read my other posts on single crochet entrelac, click here and here.) You may remember my little entrelac swatch [...]
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