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"Undersea Tawashi Collection"

6 patterns, $4.50

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"3 Flower Tawashi"

3 patterns, $3.50

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How to make a felt beret

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 [...]

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Saturday quickie – make custom buttons from shrink plastic

Ever been stuck for the perfect buttons for a sewing or knitting project? Why not make your own?

You’ll need:

Shrink plastic (e.g. shrinkydinks) marker pens or coloured pencils – non water based scissors hole punch aluminium foil toaster-oven

Simply draw the designs you want onto the plastic – don’t forget they will shrink, and [...]

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Magic loop knitting - cabled shrug

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, [...]

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