Nearly every 4th Thursday of the month, I’ve been co-hosting a monthly mending group called A Place to Mend at The Octagon Center for the Arts here in Ames, Iowa. This January kicks off our third year and we are excited to add in a bit of intentional instruction each
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I have never really been a fan of decorating for holidays though, so I wanted something that could be used for a season. Winter Season. I like decorating for the season instead of the holiday. I guess I feel like it allows me to enjoy what I’ve done a little longer.
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
Read MoreOkay 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
Read MoreWell, 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.
Read MoreI 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
Read MoreIt’s crocheted, it’s half felted, and it’s just perfect. Download the pattern here (pdf). I just want to be clear about the fact that I didn’t write the stitch pattern. It is a pretty common one and is called an interlocking block stitch. I just thought it was great for
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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.
Read MoreOkay, 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
Read MoreWell, 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
Read MoreWell 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
Read MoreAlright 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
Read MoreWell, 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
Read MoreAlright, 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
Read Moreedited 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
Read MoreNniiccoollee 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
Read MoreUnfortunately 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
Read MoreWell here is the second pattern of August. It’s a little pillow that you can sew up with little scraps of fabric and fill with rice and catnip or other herbs. My boyfriend, Jason, donated some pictures of his cat, Molly, playing with it. She goes from sweet “aww, you
Read MoreBy 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
Read MoreAlright, 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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