rural Arkansas, you don’t have to try very hard to find a little bandwith… I’ve caught a wifi signal, so I thought I’d just post a quick Howdy. I found a huge doily at a flea market for $1.50 yesterday
Vintage Crochet
Monday morning Originally uploaded by lebonbonmulticolore. I’ve been rescuing crochet from the thrift store a lot lately, and I’m not alone–check out this great vintage find from lebonbonmulticolore on flickr!
The New Knitscene
The current issue of Knitscene has some fun projects including this great crocheted hat designed by none other than Lady Linoleum herself! There are some other great projects featuring both knit and crochet–an adorable cropped cami from “it girl” Doris
Now that’s big yarn!
Via the Style Files blog, designer Christien Meinertma’s giant knitting for the home includes a rug that took the wool of 18 sheep to complete. According to the designer’s web site, she worked with wool producers in Kyrgyzstan who make
Crochet Insider
Dora Ohrenstein has just launched issue 2 of her new webzine Crochet Insider. It’s magazine of news and reviews and this time has interviews of Doris Chan and Kim Werker, and I’ve reviewed a few books–Carol Ventura’s Bead and Felted
Thrifty.
1211062245.jpg Originally uploaded by plainsight. Too tired to blog much tonight, except to say that I found a pair of handmade socks at Value Village this weekend. It’s the kind of thing that keeps me going back. often. Of course,
Burbank!
This is the Knitty Gritty Jacket as seen by Apple’s Photobooth software. 🙂 It’s really quite warm even in my cold basement where some electrical problem keeps switching the space-heater off. A couple of days before I left for Burbank
I’m back…
Knitty-gritty.michelle.amy.shelley.kendra Originally uploaded by plainsight. …and madly trying to dig myself out from below my pile of work. I just wanted to share this one picture of me with my “knitsters.” They did such an awesome job on their sweaters–each
The Winter Crochet Me is Out!
I’ve got a fun scarf duo, Cool Warmth, in there. I’m turning the computer off now, so I’ll finish packing and go to sleep. More when I get back from CA!
A felted pillow…
Berroco has a very pretty felted and needle felted pillow made with mitered squares and alpaca yarn. Technorati Tags:knitting, felting, pattern