I remember the first time I brought home yarn in a hank. It was a disaster. I laid it out nice and flat on the couch next to me and started to knit. Wow. You can guess what happened next. So I went to the yarn shop and asked about […]
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Beginning Knitting Book Round Up!
My first beginning knitting class is coming to a conclusion and I want to make sure to give these new knitters some great resources to take with them into their future knitting adventure. I know I would recommend Stitch N’ Bitch for sure, it has great illustrations and tips for […]
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What yarn? What hook? What needle?
One of the things that many of us take for granted is how to know what hook or needles for the yarn you have. This is especially important if you are making up your own project as you go along or if you are altering a pattern you already have.
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Meet Suzanne Mwamba :: Tapestry Weaving for All!
Suzanne Mwamba is the author of the TangleCrafts website – a great resource for all things diy weaving and embroidery! You can visit her website here and her shop here. Make sure to take a look at her new zine+kit subscription: DIY Weaving Club! I first met Suzanne Mwamba when […]
clm - vol 1
March Craft Leftovers Monthly!
The March issue of Craft Leftovers Monthly is in the shop! You can get a one month subscripton or three month subscription or the zine only. You can also get the February issue of clm if you missed out on it last month. I know I say this every month, […]
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Birdy Bookworm Bookmark :: Free Embroidry Pattern!
I love love love reading. And I love love love books. So that being the case I often am reading, looking through, or skimming a half a dozen or so. I go through a lot of book marks. Over time they just get misplaced, or if they are paper destroyed […]
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ReRelease :: Travel Tissue Cozy :: Lady Moss Mittens
I have many patterns from when I just started Craft Leftovers that are just a jpg you click on and print. Although this works okay, pdfs are a quite a bit nicer (better quality and readability) and smaller file size (easier on my server limitations). So as I announced last […]
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This Week at the Library :: Embroidery!
I told you, oh, last week, that I would post the other set of books that I fell in love with at the library. It’s taken me longer than I thought – but only because I had other fun things to tell you about – but finally, as the last […]
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Thrift Kitchen :: Leftover Spaghetti Sauce
I’m happy to announce the birth of a new blog! Thrift Kitchen! It started out as a solo deal – to help me cope with the reality of a shrinking budget – it’s turned into a collaborative project of three woman who love food, but don’t have a lot of […]
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The Black Swan :: Free Crochet Hat Pattern!
I’m really growing fond of combining crochet and knitting together. It is the perfect coupling of techniques. Crochet is organic and thick and has a much different drape than any knit fabric. While knitting has stretch and give and is wonderful for so many garment structures – you can do ribbing with knitting that is perfect for keeping caps on tight. I named this beret the black swan because, just like a black swan it’s all black with a few flecks of white.
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Amy Sedaris :: I love you :: And Craft Magazine too!
Craft Vol 10 is due out on news stands February 10th! It’s going to be a great issue full of idea on how to Celebrate Like Crazy! And best of all Amy Sedaris is the cover lady this issue – she shows us all how to make a great beautiful, […]
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Stitching School: Chaining and the Single Crochet
I’ve had a crush on crochet for a long time. I feel like I’ve been giving a lot of attention to Knitting lately -which I also love- and I really wanted to wax poetic about crochet. I love the way that I can improvise and work organically. You can connect […]
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This Week at the Library!
Well, in all honesty it was last week that I picked these books up. I’ve decided to break it up into two groups this week as I found quite a few winner and they are in two distinct categories. We will start out today with dyeing and then I’ll show […]
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ReReleasing to the Wild:: Coffee Sweater!
So the coffee sweater is this month’s Craft Leftovers Monthly Kit. I did a run through with it to make sure it would work with fingering weight yarn. Welllll, it does…. but then while knitting through it I found that just about ever row, except the “knit all” rows, was […]
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Spicy+Savory :: Free Spice Jar Labels!
I have been buying the majority of my spices and herbs from the bulk bins for quite awhile now. At least a few years actually. I tend to reuse the spice containers that I had on hand from the pre-bulk-bin-buying period in my life. I would just put the little […]
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How To :: Purling!
Purling defied my understanding for quite some time when I first learned to knit. mainly because I was twisting all my stitches. One thing that helped was to think of it as going over the top of the needle counter clockwise and with knits going around clockwise. I’ve remembered it […]
clm - vol 1
February Craft Leftovers Monthly!
The February Craft Leftovers Monthly is in the shop! You can pick up a: 3 month full subscription 1 month full subscription February Zine only and if you missed the January issue, don’t fret, it’s still in the shop until the end of this month. If you order the January […]
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February Craft Leftovers Monthly Preview!
February Craft Leftovers Monthly is going on sale tomorrow evening around 7pm! Here are some drawings for your delight that will be all mashed together, remixed, and poof, craft leftovers monthly is born!
patterns & tutorials - stitching school
Stitching School: Cable Cast On
I use this cast on all the time. It’s my default, if it’s not specified in the pattern cast on to use. It’s also the best cast on to show in training knitters. The thing is, the cast on method is pretty much the same as knitting a knit stitch. […]