crochet

Free Crochet Pattern: Oscar’s Fingerless Gloves

First published January 05, 2007; Oscar’s Crocheted Fingerless Mittens was my very first crochet pattern every published on the blog. I still remember typing up the pattern in my college apartment all those years ago — and my complete delight when my new friend Diane shared a photo with me

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Crafty Business

Ep 14: Annual Review in an Hour

Before making a plan for the next year, (Ep 01 of Craft Leftovers), let’s take an hour to consider this past year. What went well? What could have been better? What just totally missed the boat? Do you try again next year or let it go? I’m taking you through

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fabric

How To: Fabric Stitchy Bookmark

One of the things I wanted to work on this year was reading. And I have. In fact, I’ve worked on it a lot. It seemed only right to make a new bookmark to mark my place. I’ve already read more books this year than I did in all of

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journal

Pin Tin Canny!

The table in my studio always has a mix of things on it, often making it difficult to get anything done because of all the clutter. So I decided to make something that would keep it all in one place, straight pins included! I put pens, pencils, scissors, rotary cutters

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fabric, patterns & tutorials

Stick a Pin in It!

Okay kiddos, here is this weeks pattern. It’s a little book to put your sewing needles and straight pins in. It’s made out of an really ugly past it’s time micro suede shirt and a cute, but way to felted to ever be worn again cabled pink sweater. It may

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fabric, patterns & tutorials

Pinch of Tea!

Well, it’s only 6:30pm on Friday and I have the pattern done! woot! Sorry about last week, it won’t happen again… well, no promises, but I will try my best. Anyway, this week’s pattern is a nice little tea bag that you can reuse. I just love tea…. love it.

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Boo Hoo!

I completely forgot that I would be leaving right after work tomorrow for an out of town trip so there will be no pattern this week. I’m really super sorry folks. Next time I will give you sooner notice or get the pattern ready before hand to post as scheduled.

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Needle Wrap

I have acquired quite a few felted sweaters and ridiculous blouses with weird patterns from the thrift store over time, just for fun, but I’m trying to clean out my closet and they were something that needed to go… Just a little past their prime. Put that together with the

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Oscar’s

Well the first pair that I made of these reminded me so much of Oscar the Grouch’s fur, so I decided to name them after him. They are Crocheted fingerless gloves, super warm and super quick to crochet up. Plus, they only take one skein of bulky yarn to make.

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Holiday Crafting!

Okay, so things have yet again gotten away from me. But I’m just going to embrace it and gear up for next time. Basically I’m leaving out of town today and this was finals week so everything is nuts and all nighters. But in all of this I do have

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Christmas Cards

Well, I decided to go ahead with a particularly Christmas craft this time around, which is actually good for me becase I procrastinate like no other. I will post close up shots on the flickr site, you should check them out. If you have any other ideas about making cards

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This week’s pattern…

Well I just thought I would post a little howdy here to let everyone know that you should look for the pattern on Saturday. I have to work a double shift and then off to pot luck for the artist group I am VP of.. I will be teaching people

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Tissue Cozy!

Alright folks, I feel like I’m on the up and up… It’s not even past nine and I have the pattern ready to go! I’ve been feeling kind of sick lately and riding my bike when it is only 23 degrees tends to leave me with a runny nose at

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Scrapy Pillow

Well, I’m not so happy with the colors that I picked out, so I’m going to make another one soon… Maybe with patterned fabric instead of just the plain color. I do like the pattern though. It’s a good way to use up little scraps of yarn and strips of

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fabric, patterns & tutorials

Vinyl Wallet

Alright, well, I had done a ton of work to pull out a pattern for this week, it was going great, and then, well I didn’t have enough leftovers! I thought I had more poly fill than I really did, or my ferret stole it and nested it in the

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Finally! Patterns again!

edited in: I found my cord, finally… i was getting worried about it, so here is a picture of the stamps that I made (and yes I did make the ultimate mistake of writing the text the correct way and so it is reversed when I stamp it… don’t do

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And the winners are….

Nniiccoollee and Crown Cap Crafts! Please email me at kristinmroach@gmail.com with your real name, address, kit preference, and a color/theme prefernce…. also tell me what color you reallllly don’t like and would be sad if I picked it for yor kit. I have some bad news…. my internet is down

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I regret to inform you….

Unfortunately I am going to have to postpone this week’s pattern to next week. I am out of town and even though I have the project finished it is going to take a little bit to get it written out (so that way it is not rediculouly confusing). I am

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And the winner is!

By Random out of the hat selection Sister Diane is the winner of this past pattern’s drawing! Woo! Congradulations! She has the choice of a kit from any of the posted patterns, I will let you know what she decides when she lets me know. I will unfortunately not be

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Dish Rag!

Alright, here’s this Wednesday’s pattern. As always there will be a drawing held and I will announce the winner later tonight (we want things to be random, so I will have someone draw the name out of a take out container, how exciting!). Okay, so I have found out that

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And the winner is…..

Nicole from Canada! She decided on a water bottle sling kit because she does not have a sewing mechine and dark and light blue for her colors. I am sending it off tomorrow morning and it will hopefully get to her in the next week or so. I hope she

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