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Attaching amigurumi pieces is one of the most complicated things for beginners. In this tutorial I am showing two different ways to sew parts together.
VeryPink offers knitting patterns and video tutorials from Staci Perry. Short technique videos and longer pattern tutorials to take your knitting skills to the next level.
So I have spoken about my new 16th century German chemise/shirt, and I have also documented the whole process of making it so that I can show you how it is made. This hemd goes under the name of …
When we want to upgrade a project from “basic” to “fancy”, we are looking for ways to add little details that are almost invisible on their own but turn a project into a refined creation. One of those ways is to change the type of cast on. The Bulgarian cast on that I’m going to […]
How to knit an I-cord edge Hey friends! For today’s Tips and Tricks Tuesday, I’m going to show you how to knit an I-cord edge. A few people asked me how I got such a tidy looking edge on my new shawl design (work in progress), so I thought I’d share a quick tutorial. Here’s...Read the Post
Textured wall weaving create a lovely effect. In this tutorial, you will learn 5 simple and easy ways to add texture to your DIY wall weaving.
I love entrelac! I love that it can be manipulated to look like large rectangles with lots of drape or tiny rectangles that work like ribbing.
There are many tutorials out there on how to create a narrow hem. The problem is they mostly demonstrate on a rectangular piece of fabric, which makes the process deceivingly easy. With a few exceptions, that usually is not how I use a narrow hem. If I need to hem something straight, a wide hem of 1″ or […]
Creating a Crochet Sculpture I love creating freeform crochet sculptures. It gets me into a state of “flow”, helps me relax, and brings about a sense of joy. Today I thought I’d…
Five years ago, I started making waldorf-inspired dolls with my company Brambles & Blossoms. I only had 4 little boys at the time and longed to make them soft, cuddly dolls to be their best friends. My very first dolls were ones I made for the first four of my boys, but my fourth son, …
Easter is about the only time of year you might hear talk of bonnets, but for babies, bonnets are a fact of life! Snuggly and warm, bonnets embrace the delicate contours of a baby's head, while under-the-chin ties prevent the famous "stroller fling". The engineering of these little Baby Bonnets was inspired by the small miracle in sock knitting that is "turning the heel". I thought it would be neat to isolate that magical moment, using it to structure the planes of a bonnet. First from the front peak to the mid-crown and then across the entire back, you essentially "turn the heel", but somehow instead of a sock, you end up with a sweet Baby Bonnet! Thinking about tender babies, I turned to one of Purl Soho's most exquisite yarns, Anzula's For Better Or Worsted. A beautiful blend of superwash merino, cashmere and nylon, it is soft, sumptuous, and stunningly hand dyed. Just right for babies! I hope you enjoy knitting this little one-skein project. It's a bit surprising and a whole lot of fun!
The other day I was scrolling through Pinterest, as you do, and came across this photo . Of course the link was broken, causing me to become obsessive. I scoured the website trying to find the tutorial on how to make the delightfully rustic looking DIY sponge thing of my dreams but alas, no luck. S
I think this the 2nd or 3rd quilt I made around Bonnie Christine's Hello, Bear line. I love it. It is whimsical and modern and sort of neutral, with pops of color, and so fun! I'd had the idea to make a 2/3s economy block quilt for a bit. In the traditional economy block, the center piece is a square, set into a diamond, set into a square. In my version, the center was a diamond, set in a square. There might actually be a name for this type of block, I just don't know of one. Here is a close up of the blocks. I added sashing in between the columns to make it a bit wider. The creamy flecked fabric in the background, Firefly, might be one of my very favorite low volume prints ever. Aside from the softness that the cream adds, there is the actual silky softness that is the staple of Art Gallery fabrics. I really like how it turned out. I decided to back it with another print from the hello, bear line, because it is just so perfect!! And I decided to quilt it minimally, just around the diamonds. You can see it well on the back above. I was unsure of binding it in the black cotton + steel sprinkle fabric, but I am so glad I did. I feel like it adds a cool dimension to the quilt. I definitely think I will make another 2/3s economy block quilt again. haha!
How to make small doll heads and draw on bead heads by Atelier Pippilotta in English
I wanted to share how I make the hair for my amigurumi. I always wished that someone had shared this information when I was first getting started, and I searched high and low for a couple of months before deciding...
So I have spoken about my new 16th century German chemise/shirt, and I have also documented the whole process of making it so that I can show you how it is made. This hemd goes under the name of …
Rolls (these can be prepared the night before)
This rose petal salve recipe is made with real rose petals plus rosehip seed oil for amazing benefits when applied to mature, sun-damaged & dry skin.
Do you want to join your yarn in a fast and secure way? Learn how to join yarn with the magic knot! Useful for both crocheters and knitters
Welcome back! When I think about Dress A Girl Around the World I think about pillowcase dresses. It is a great little dress pattern…the length can be adjusted with the ties, and the width has plenty of ease. This tutorial includes step by step instructions for making the standard pillowcase dress with ties on the shoulders. This is a chart of the finished dress lengths. Sometimes it is difficult to make a dress the correct number of inches so here is a range. Do you know what size dress you would like to make? Take a look at the chart below. Size/years old Finished Dress Length Infant 14-16 inches 1-2 years 17-19 inches 3-4 years 20-22 inches 5-6 years 23-25 inches 7-8 years 26-28 inches 9-10 29-30 inches 11 31-33 inches 12-14 34-35 inches There is one quick thing you need to do before we get started. You need to draw a template for the arm opening. Here is a photo of my templates in S, M, and L. Get out a piece of paper or cardboard to draw your template on. I am going to give you the measurements for the width and length. The curved line should go straight down for about 3 inches and then curve in a J shape. No matter how your curve looks it will work out as long as you have the length width measured correctly. Template measurements: (width then length) Small 1 1/2" x 4 1/2" to fit infant to size 4 Medium 2" x 5" to fit child size 5 to 9 Large 2 1/4" x 6" to fit child 9 to 14 Let's get started! For those of you that bought a pillowcase, choose the length of the dress that you wish to make and add one inch. Take into consideration the width of your pillowcase particularly if it is large or king size. Some king size pillowcase are pretty narrow and you don’t want to make a dress too narrow to run or play in. If you are more of a visual person (like me) take a tape measure and measure the width of the pillowcase x 2 and put the tape around your own legs just below the knee. What do you think? Is it too narrow? If so make a smaller size and you can use the leftover fabric to make pockets. Lay your pillowcase flat on a flat surface. With a yard stick measure from the hem to the desired length + 1 inch. Cut across the closed end. Pillowcase people skip the following paragraph and pick up at the pink sentence below. (scroll down) For those of you that bought fabric, choose the length of dress that you wish to make and add two inches to the length the width will be whatever the width of the fabric is… we’re going to take advantage of those selvages. Go ahead and cut your dress the length you’ve chosen. Put the selvages together and seam the length of the dress. If you do not have selvages zig zag from top to bottom to make sure that this seam does not come apart. Now let’s put in a hem. On one end of the fabric tube turn up ½” all the way around the dress, pressing as you fold. After you’ve completed this go around again folding up another ½”. Stitch close to the edge of your hem with your machine. We should ALL have a tube of fabric with a hem on one end. Lay your tube out flat with the seam on the side rather than down the back. It will be much less noticeable and both the front and back will appear seamless. Trace and cut your arm openings. Your fabric should look like this. It’s starting to look a little like a dress isn’t it? On the top front fold over ¼” and press. Now fold over ¾” and press firmly. Flip the dress over and do the same thing on the top of the back of the dress. Stitch close to the edge along the fold on the front and the back. After you finish, press the casing one more time. Dress Size Elastic Length 6 mo to 5 6” 6 to 9 7” 10 to 12 8’ Select the size dress you are making. You will need to cut two pieces of 3/8 or ½ inch elastic. (If you prefer you can leave the elastic in once piece for example if you are making a size 6 dress you will cut the elastic 14 inches and mark the center with a pin or marker. (I like to do this because it is easy for short pieces of elastic to get away). Put a safety pin on the end of the elastic and push it through the casing. When the center of your elastic reaches one end, pin or secure with a few stitches, clip the end of the elastic and continue across. While the safety pin is still attached fasten the end securely with a stitch or pin. Do not stretch out to distribute the gathers…we’ll do that later. Turn the dress over and repeat on the other side. If you used pins to hold the elastic tack all four of the elastic ends using a zig zag stitch. Make sure that you can see the ends of elastic so they will be well secured. This is what your dress should look like…if it does give yourself a pat on the back. Now for the ties. Find the length of ties that correspond to the size dress that you are making and cut two. It will take one package to make one dress unless you are making an infant size dress. If you buy 2 packages you will have enough tape to make 3 dresses. Size Tie Length Infant 24 Small 30 Medium 36 Large 38 If you look very closely at most bias tape while it is folded, one edge will appear to be a little wider. You can see it pretty well on the tape edge on the left. The wider side will go to the inside of the dress that way when you sew the tape about the arm opening you won’t have to worry about catching the edge of the tape that is out of sight. Fold in and press the ends of the ties. Fold you ties in half and mark with a pin. With the right side of the fabric facing out pin the center of the bias tape to the center of the underarm. Remember the widest edge of the bias tape needs to go on the inside of arm opening. Make sure the dress fabric is all the way in to the fold. Pin every inch or so to make sure that the fabric doesn’t slip out. Lay your dress out with ties laid up like this. You start sewing on the top of the left tie. Sew the edges together with a straight stitch. When you get to the dress fabric keep sewing removing the pins one at a time and then continue sewing up to the end of the tie. You will be sewing a giant U. Repeat on the other side. *If it is easier you can sew around the U with a zig zag stitch. Look on the inside of the arm opening and make sure that you caught all of the edges. Turn your dress inside out and clip all the threads, check your seams and the hem. You are finished! Flip your dress right side out, tie you ties and hang your dress up and admire your work. GOOD JOB! Now it is time to embellish your dress and make it your own!
I’m very excited to share with you my newest method of preventing the gaps in Amigurumi when crocheting over single crochet decreases. I’m especially proud of this tutorial because this Amigurumi Hack is actually something that I came up with myself! I haven’t seen this tip anywhere else on the internet but obviously the world...
How to Knit a Cable Heart | Free Knitting Pattern + Video Tutorial by #StudioKnit #knittingpattern #cableknitting
Bowl Cozy To Protect Your Hands and Furniture. With stacks of microwave cozy patterns around, I love the idea of a soup bowl cozy for just one bowl. The bowl cozy protects your hands, lap and table…
Inspired by Bo Friberg's Cherry Crossover in The Professional Pastry Chef.Recipe Update June 2015: The method for using the dowel depicted in the original photos in the post above makes it easy to have a uniform cut for the crossovers. However we have found we often skip using a dowel and just free-hand the cuts and transfer of the dough to the baking sheet. Both methods work great so use which ever you prefer. For using a dowel for the cuts and transfer, see the note below the recipe for instructions. Please see post images for step-by-step. It may be very helpful for visualizing how to cut and fold the crossovers.If you like your pastries on the sweeter side, toss the berries with sugar to taste before filling the pastries with them.
Kimono: me (tutorial below) similar looks here, here, and here, , Top: Forever 21, Pants: Dittos c/o (On sale for $15, down from $79!), Shoes: Target, Necklace: Poshlocket c/o, Cuff: vintage I have be
There are lots of ways to sew a bias binding to finish a garment, so I've put together a series of tutorials to walk you through three of my favorite options! You'll see...
To complete the sophisticated look, it is important to graft the ends of each i-cord edge together seamlessly.
Circular knitting, or knitting in the round, is worked on a circular needle or with a set of four or five double-pointed needles. With the right side al...
Learn how to make a sewing wrist cuff of your own with this tutorial by Feeling Stitchy. -Sewtorial
I take it as a great sign that you’re here! You’ve made it through casting on and you’re ready to knit! This is where it...
(Love saying that!)Hey there! Happy to see you!Another awesome weekend is here and I am so ready.Even though we had a day off on Monday, I still feels like this has been the longest week ever!I
One of the many benefits of sewing your own wardrobe is that you can customize handmade projects however you like. Kaysie of KZJO'STUDIO shared this beautiful Shell Edge Finish Tutorial that is the perfect finishing touch for many different knit sewing projects. This lovely accent will transform any basic piece into a one-of-a-kind creation. Click here for the entire tutorial and happy sewing! In her example, Kaysie uses KZJO'STUDIO Ashlin Dress Sewing Pattern to add her shell edge finish, but you can use this technique on almost any knit sewing pattern. Order your Ashlin Dress along with many more Indie Sewing Patterns at Girl Charlee today! Kaysie's tutorial includes many sewing tips for readers like the suggestion of using a contrast thread to show off the shell edge. This is such a fun added touch, why not show it off? Don't forget to practice on a scrap piece of fabric before sewing your Ashlin to master the technique and see how your stitches will look. The Ashlin is designed to be sewn in a stable knit fabric including Cotton Lycra and Ponte De Roma. A few of my picks from the store: Follow Girl Charlee Fabrics's board Knit Fabric Sewing Tutorials on Pinterest. We hope you enjoy this tutorial! We love to see what you sew up so please send 1-2 images* of any project you make with Girl Charlee Fabrics to [email protected] and you might see your creation featured in our next Knit Picks! *Please note that all images submitted are subject for Girl Charlee promotional use. Happy Sewing! ~ Heather & The Girl Charlee Team SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave
This is the seventh design in the Celtic Cable Shawls collection.Ishneich is a top-down triangular shawl, designed to work well with a variegated yarn and a co-ordinating solid or semi-solid. The cabled section features a Celtic knot comprised of a single strand looping around itself. Two lateral braids are worked after the cabled section, and finally a lace edging is knitted on perpendicularly.In the materials list, Yarn A refers to the semi-solid yarn used for the cabled section and Yarn B refers to the variegated background yarn used in the body section and lace edging.Sizes S [L] Shown in size L Length of neck edge: 45 [60]"/(114 [152.5] cm) Neck edge to centre point: 22.5 [30]"/(57 [76] cm)Skill required include: • Garter tab beginning • Closed-loop cables (tutorial links included in pattern) • Lateral braids (explained in pattern) • Basic lace • Knitting on an edging perpendicularly
Hello friends! Some interested parties have asked for a tut on these adorable paper foxes I folded recently. It is a quick and easy model using just one square piece of paper. With a bit of glue a…
Free crochet pattern for essentials baby blanket, afghan, throw by Pattern-Paradise.com #crochet #patternparadisecrochet #blanket #baby
As Promised, here's the seven part tutorial 'A Book Folding Course'. I put this book folding tutorial together to help people new to book folding get to grips with the basics. Once you have this knowledge it's a very easy craft to get involved with. That's one of the great things about book folding. It's also cheap! You're likely to have all the tools you need to get started already and second hand books don't cost much, if anything, and are readily available. Throughout the course w
