Just around the corner, on Saturday April 26th there is an exciting little fiber festival. Color Fiber Festival is taking place in Berkeley and will include fiber tastings (materials fee only) and free drop spindle classes. Several local indie dyers and crafters will be there including yours truly. I am …
You know how I was just writing about cuties and my new handcrafted lunch bag? i kinda combined the two ideas and made a cutie cozy Now I need to make about 5 more since I eat them about 6 at a time… [ravelry project page]
CraftCon 2008 is this weekend – I’ll be there!
There are two reasons why I have been good about bringing my lunch to work… 1.) California cutes are delicious 2.) My new lunch bag [Ravelry Project Page] The pattern is from the japanese book Motif Crochet winter accessories and I think it is for a little bento lunch box. …
Won’t you take me to…. Tawashi Town!! i just discovered what a tawashi is… It is a japanese knit or crochetes scrubber. Powered by a book from kinokuniya called “Magic Scrubbers Part 8″, I whipped up a number of little crocheted scrubbies and dusters. A baby seal. Believe it or …
That’s the sound of me tooting my own horn! My kitchener stitch markers were featured this month in Knitty’s ‘”Cool Stuff” (scroll down to the very bottom and don’t click the picture). It is always nice to know that someone likes your stuff. And I am not the only one …
Has anyone tried “retro-clean“? It is a detergent for cleaning old linens. Sounds nice.
Happy St. Patrick’s day! last week I was goofing off with my crochet hook and thinking about St. patty’s day. i thought I might make a four-leaf clover… I found a few shamrock patterns, but none of them had 4 leaves! After a few failed attempts, here is my version. …
Pretty much without even a second thought, I recently bought a few Japanese craft books in Japantown. These are my first, and while I don’t speak or read Japanese, everyone always says the diagrams are so good that you can figure everything out from the pictures. Well, they are mostly …
Lately, I have had visions of ripping this out. It is sized to become a queens sized afghan, so it is several feet wide. There is a lot of crochet going on there. I an unhappy with how strictly I striped the colors. Each color row is actually two rows …