Getting Ready for Spinzilla 2014
Next week is Spinzilla. I know, you’ve been waiting. Me too. You’ve been stalking the event blog and everywhere else on the web for tips on production spinning so that you […]
Really Big Nupps
As I might have mentioned before, my official WIP these days is the Mary Lennox shawl. Its a circular shawl that was published as a mystery Knit-A-Long on ravelry. The […]
Arrow Head Lace – Using Charts as a Pattern
Free pattern! This Arrow Head Lace Headband is a fast knit and a great way to practice you chart reading skills.
Working with a Few Easy Charts – A Place to Begin
Previous Post in This Series: Getting Past A Fear of Charts What’s in this post: – The basics of reading charts for flat knitting – Explanation of a few common symbols […]
Drive By Post – A wee bit of yarn bombing
Just a short post today as I should be getting ready for my knitting class. But I wanted to share the two little yarn bombs that went off last night […]
Getting Past A Fear of Charts
This week in my stitch clinics I’m starting a short series on using charts in knitting. As a knit and crochet instructor, resistance to charts is something I see over […]
Doing Mean Things To Yarn – Let's Try Felting
Most of the time when you wash your hand knit, hand crocheted items you treat them like the precious babies they are, right? Of course you do. With all the […]
Get Cored – How I learned to make core spun yarns
Tonight I’m thinking about those people that are just never satisfied with hand-made gifts. You know who I’m talking about, right? Of course you do! Lol. We all do. You […]
Going Public
It was a holiday weekend and I didn’t get to do what I really wanted to: go somewhere and knit. Don’t get me wrong, I did plenty of knitting. I […]
Welcome to Roving Crafters!
Welcome welcome! This is the new blog for a small crafters group that meets at the Austin Community College southern campus in Austin. I say small, but in reality we’re […]