Many instructors are in a bind when it comes to class discussions: they want everyone in the class to contribute, but they do not feel comfortable calling on students who do not raise their hands to speak. Kurtis Swope, in a 2006 article for the Teaching Professor , writes of an

To Bind is a spell in the Book of Shadows which, as the title indicates, allows witches to bind the powers of whom the spell is cast upon. (Book of Shadows text:) I take your hands in mine, And with this spell I will entwine, Your powers I'll forever bind, From now until the end of time.

All done and the binding will be in a white with irregular black dots. Love this :) Pictures & comments in Piecing 2015 Set 2.

Want to see step for step how to work a tubular bind off for 1x1 rib? You've come to the right place, just visit the tutorial!

Out of a collection of some 130 items, nine (9) items are presented online in this section. Relevant items found in other parts of the total Schoyen Collection are also highlighted.

Binding off in pattern is a technique that’s often used when you’re binding off rib stitch. Unlike a regular bind off, where you knit all the stitches on the bind off row, binding off in pattern requires that you knit the bind off row as if you were working the next row of your stitch […]

Are you living a stuck existence? Need help? This symbolic journey can offer you guidance in removing the chains that bind you daily. Tarot spread included to aid the journey away from the Devil card.

No need for your reading glasses on this one, but perhaps some knowledge of 18th century Spanish might be useful. This is one of a collection of twelve giant books made in 1715 by a priest in New Spain (as in Spanish colonial Mexico), currently being preserved by the library of the National Autonomo

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They're incredibly rare today, but portable girdle books were once very handy.

Kennedy James' Serial Bondage series features chairs tied up, strung up and hung up in the ancient art of Japanese Shibari (rope bondage). Sexy! She has

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I love books that are already spiralbound if nothing else because I don’t have to make a trip to Kinkos to have it spiral bound. I guess spiral binding is a sign of my respect for a book in some sort of weird way that I really don’t want to examine too closely. The Sock Knitter’s Handbook by Charlene Schurch and Beth Parrott is one of those kind of knitting books. Not a pattern book but it will definitely get you heading towards your sock yarn stash whether you are just beginning to explore the pleasures of knitting socks or you’ve got a few dozen in your sock drawer.

No need to worry as you can now consult a spell caster for a spell to make someone obsessed with you. This kind of spell with profound effect will showcase affections, emotions, and love of the person you love.

A German art student hand-illuminates Tolkien's bible of Middle Earth.

A step-by-step tutorial on the pinhole cast-on method - including a video. How to do it with circular or double-pointed knitting needles.

In a previous post on making collages with kids, I mentioned my visits to P.S. 142 and the wonderful students I worked with there. A few weeks ago, I made my last visit to two 1st grade classes, a…

(Image credit: Flickr user Northampton Museum)There is an argument over where the story of Cinderella came from, China, Egypt, or Greece. But the ancient tale of Ye Xian contains a rather creepy clue that the story originated in the land of the original foot fetish. In the Chinese version, the king never even meets our heroine at the ball -he becomes obsessed with finding her solely because of the miniscule size of the shoe she left behind. This makes sense in light of the traditional practice of foot bi...

In this post I’m going to show you how to knit a stretchy bind off step by step for a regular knit bind off and a rib bind off.

Even though paper would eventually come to be more popular, parchment was the preferred material for book making, and eventually printing, throughout the middle ages. Parchment, used before the rise of paper between the 5th and 13th centuries, is made from the thin membranes of the flesh of an animal, typically a cow or sheep. It is quite difficult to produce; thus, it is expensive.

They're an art form all their own.

Despite being a craft dating back over 30,000 years, fiber work only started to get sculpturally experimental in a serious way in the 1960s and 70s.

From mushrooms to cheese to mini books - here's six of the stranger books to be found in the collection of the Bodleian Libraries Rilke's mushroom spores Mushroom spores growing out of the pages of a book are usually the...

Does it make you just giddy inside when you see something totally new and different? Well this nalbinding technique featured in the book Knitting Around the World: A Multistranded History of a Time-Honored Tradition isn't new, but it is to...

Learn how to bind off stitches in the round neatly without a jog. This method creates an additional stitch that connects the first and the last bound-off stitches seamlessly.

With the new year stretching ahead, many of us will be thinking about ways to improve ourselves or master a new skill. Your resolutions for 2021 don’t need to be painful promises, though – why not...

4 out of 5 biologists agree: Knitting in Biology 101 is the cutest biology project, ever! If you agree, then this, my friend, is the pattern for you. The knitting is pretty easy, but you do need to be able to: knit in the round on double pointed needles, work short rows, work standard increases and decreases, work a picot bind off, and needle-felt My patterns are written in a pretty standard format with common abbreviations. I try very hard to make my patterns clear and easy to follow, with detailed instructions on things like the picot bind off, and I am always available through email or Etsy convo to answer pattern questions.

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Five short-tail cast-on methods that can be used to create new stitches in the middle of a row. Read on to find out their pros & cons, and when to use them.

There's a reason these became classics.