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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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A picot hem makes an attractive alternative to ribbing or garter-stitch for finishing the end of a piece of knitting. Picot hems can also be used to make tucks or frills – one of my earliest knitting memories is making a baby bonnet for my youngest brother which had a picot-hem frill around the crown. [...]  Sashiko embroidery is a Japanese embroidery and quilting technique that is both practical and decorative. Unlike other forms of Japanese embroidery, which due to the costly nature of the materials used was restricted to the upper classes, sashiko (literally ‘little stabs’) was used by ordinary working people. The technique is used to strengthen fabrics in [...] Knowing how to sew french seams is useful when you are working with delicate materials that fray easily. They are also great if the inside seam is likely to show. They give strength, protect the raw edge from fraying, and give a neat finish. Sewing a French seam involves enclosing the raw seam allowance inside [...] When I was younger I often wondered how to make patchwork. Patchwork – for quilts, bags, clothing, home decor and more – can be as simple or as sophisticated as you like. You can recycle scraps of old clothing, or make use of the many beautiful quilting fabrics now available. You can piece patchwork by [...] 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 [...] There are two distinctly Japanese resist-dyeing techniques – one is shibori (which can also be adapted to a felting technique). The other is yuzen. Yuzen is most commonly known as a way to dye and decorate origami paper (yuzen-washi), but is actually more often used to dye silks and other fabrics for luxurious kimono. A [...] When is a rose not a rose? When it’s made of leather! It’s actually very easy to make leather flowers that look sophisticated, but are deceptively simple. Today we’ll learn how to mould leather to make roses and other flowers. You can wear them as jewelry or hair accessories, dress up a bag or belt, [...] With its echoes of chainmail, coiled wire jewelry nicely captures the current ‘warrior-inspired’ trend. Today we’ll learn how to make short wire coils with a knitting needle, to add dimension to a simple gemstone pendant. For this project you’ll need: Jewellery wire – I used 22-gauge round silver wire Large bead, with a hole large [...] Art yarns can be used for knitting, crocheting or weaving interesting textured pieces. They can be simple, with variations in colour and thickness, or include beads, felted bits, fabric, ribbon, unusual materials, and extreme variations in texture. Today I’ll show you how to spin a textured yarn with clusters of beads. You’ll need to know [...] On Wednesday we learned how to embroider with beads by adding beads to a simple backstitch.Today lets have a look at a more traditional bead embroidery stitch. This stitch is also called backstitch (or ‘lazy squaw stitch’ by some Native American beadworkers – thanks CraftyBloke for that little tidbit). This stitch is time-consuming but simple [...] |
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