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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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Smocking is the art of embroidering over pleats, to form a pretty and stretchy gathered fabric. Lovely on baby clothes, smocking also features heavily in this season’s Anthropologie collection, and today we’ll be learning 2 smocking stitches – outline stitch and trellis stitch – to make over a mans t-shirt into a heavily embellished tank [...]  When handmade hats are mentioned, knitted and sewn hats spring to mind. However, it is not at all difficult to make your own stylish felt hats from wool fibre. All that is really needed is a hat form, which can be constructed from cardboard. Today I’m going to show you how to felt a beret [...] Happy Saturday! For this week’s quickie, we’ll make a cute jellyfish decoration, perfect for a sea-themed kids room or party. Even very young children should be able to make these with a little supervision. You’ll need: Plastic carrier bag, preferably semi-transparent coloured paper tape yarn, string, ribbon or streamers permanent marker Turn the bag handles-down, [...] Fairisle or stranded knitting is one method of knitting with more than one colour at once to form a pattern. The colour you are not knitting with is carried along the back of the work, which is why it is called stranded colourwork. Usually only two colours are used in any one row of knitting [...] Magic loop is a useful technique for knitting in the round, enabling you to knit any size piece, even down to glove fingers, on one long circular needle. Today we’ll learn how to knit with the magic loop method, and how to do a forward cable, while making this simple shawl-collared shrug with cable details, [...] Yay! My new crochet pattern booklet is finished! “Brighten your kitchen and wash up in style with this collection of sea creatures. Made from acrylic yarn, tawashi save on soap, protecting real aquatic life from the phosphates in our detergents. Pattern booklet includes 6 patterns, each using less than one skein of medium-weight acrylic yarn” [...] Tawashi, or ‘eco scrubbies’, a popular small crochet project in Japan, are small dishcloths or pot scrubbers made from acrylic yarn. The benefit of acrylic is that it is amazingly good at removing food particles from dishes, meaning you need less soap for greasy dishes, and no soap at all for ordinary washing-up. This is [...] Last week, we learned how to draft and sew a custom-fit slipper pattern, and how to sew leather. Today lets put them together, and make a simple pair of flat slippers. If you waterproof your leather, they can even be worn outdoors. For this project you’ll need: Your slipper pattern Leather – enough thicker leather [...] More felt sewing today, as I show you how to draft a pattern for, and sew, these sweet lovebird slippers. You could make them from thick wool felt for cosy toes, or from dollar-store felt for a cheap but personalised gift. Mine cost me just $3, using two large sheets and one small multicolour pack [...] For this week’s Saturday Quickie, I’d like to show you how to make a kokeshi doll from recycled drinks bottles. Kokeshi are traditional Japanese dolls, usually made from turned wood. The origin of the kokeshi doll is rooted in tragedy – ‘ko’ meaning ‘child’ and ‘keshi’ meaning vanished or disappeared, they were originally made by [...] |
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