Found these online and thought you might like to see them too. Simply remarkable!
DEADLINES? GET ORGANIZED!
With the coming of the winter holiday season – Thanksgiving, Christmas, Channukah, New Years, Kwaanza – we often have a lot of deadlines to meet. We often have more budget than cash. We always need a roadmap for gifts, festivities, … Read More ...
DELICIOUS CROCHET
Do you know about Carolyn Christmas and Gourmet Crochet? I love the look of the site and Carolyn’s designs. I’ve been a fan of hers for a long time. I purchased Carolyn’s patterns before I knew she had a website.… Read More ...
SUCH A GREAT IDEA! WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF IT??
Have you seen this crochet pattern book? I’ve had it in my hands several times, wondering if I wanted to buy it. The last time I looked at it, I FINALLY SAW what the patterns were! They are just crocheted … Read More ...
CAN YOU CROCHET WITH THIS YARN?????
I had the opportunity recently to visit a LYS that I haven’t been to in about two years. When I walked in and greeted the owner, my eye was immediately drawn to the yarn shown here:
It’s lovely stuff … Read More ...
WHERE’S THE BEEF? The Lion Ate It……
I have a beef with the LionBrand website. It’s a great site – oodles of free patterns for crochet (and knit), great pictures of yarn and finished garments, etc. I have no beef with that. It’s all good.
But, why … Read More ...
COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER – WHAT IS RAVELRY??
This is one of Kim Guzman’s latest designs. It’ll appear in the next issue of Crochet World Magazine. What a beauty! Kim recently blogged about Ravelry, so I thought I’d share her blog since she has said about all there
… Read More ...SOME FRESH IDEAS
If you’ve been paying attention to a lot of my blog entries, you’ll know that I love to recycle common household articles, especially fiber-based items, and I love beads. I was digging through Etsy for a few minutes recently and … Read More ...
WRAPPED IN CROCHET – PART DEUX
WRAPPED IN CROCHET: Scarves, Wraps, and Shawls by Kristin Omdahl
As promised, here is a preview of some of the outstanding patterns available in this book. Omdahl shows the depth of her designing skill with this array of projects.
“Labyrinth” … Read More ...
WRAPPED IN CROCHET – A BOOK REVIEW AND A GIMME!
WRAPPED IN CROCHET: SCARVES, WRAPS, AND SHAWLS
KRISTIN OMDAHL
What? ANOTHER book about crochet scarves?? Why not something more impressive, fresher, newer, more fashion forward?? Kristin Omdahl has expanded her crochet horizon with many of the designs in this book, … Read More ...
CHAHULA IS ON THE WAY….
Despite some rather dramatic events in my recent life, unrelated to crochet (which is why they call if Life, isn’t it??), the winner’s gift in the Blueprint Crochet (Robyn Chahula) contest just got in the mail this morning. Actually, two … Read More ...
FRACTAL CROCHET?? What’s Cauliflower Got To Do With It?
What does cauliflower have to do with crochet? Not much. This is just an example of an everyday fractal. Fractals are amazing mathematical shapes first described by Gaston Julia and Benoit Mandelbrot. You can google those guys and read til … Read More ...
MAGGIE’S CROCHET
One of the most attractive crochet vendor websites online is maggiescrochet.com. There is always something enticing there. I find the photography and the projects pictured to be yummier than any other site.
I already own this book – and can … Read More ...
Book Review – CROCHET TECHNIQUES by Renate Kirkpatrick
Crochet Techniques by Renate Kirkpatrick has a great cover – colorful and appealing. The attraction doesn’t end there – but was not exactly what I expected from the title. There are several sampler projects in the book, each with well … Read More ...
ULTIMATE SOURCEBOOK ??
I’m not quite sure this is the ‘ultimate’ book of knitting and crochet stitches but it’s a useful one, albeit half of it is devoted to knitting making it virtually worthless to me. If you both knit and crochet, this … Read More ...