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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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Although you can successfully work nalebinding with any large blunt needle, such as a yarn needle, nalebinding is traditionally done with a wide flat needle. These needles are generally made of wood, bone, or other natural materials. Today, we’ll learn how you can make your own needle from wood or bamboo. You’ll need: A length [...]  On Wednesday, we took a look at lace knitting, for which stitch markers are a real help. Of course, you can get plain ones fairly cheaply – they are basically little plastic rings that you slide onto the knitting needle between the two stitches you want to mark. As you knit past those stitches, you [...] Making your own stamps can be so much fun, to add a personalised touch to cards, gift tags, scrapbook pages and other craft projects. Small and medium-sized stamps can be carved from erasers, which are easy to obtain, and have the advantage that they don’t need mounting on a wooden block to be used. To [...] When loom beading is mentioned, most people think of tension looms, such as the box lid beadloom I posted a while ago. Beadweaving can, however, also be done on a loom with a rigid heddle. The advantage of weaving in this way is that unlike tension looms, where the thread has to pass through each [...] 
I have so many pairs of disposable chopsticks lying around – no matter how many times I say I don’t need them, the convenience store clerks will still almost automatically put a pair in. Instead of throwing them away, I decided to make knitting needles from them instead. For this project you’ll need: Disposable chopsticks [...] On Wednesday, we learned how to make a miniature frame loom for weaving small pieces. Frame looms can be made in many sizes, from coaster size, right up to looms a metre or two in height, such as Navajo looms. You can make a DIY frame loom from various materials – a cardboard box, PVC [...] If you’ve ever wanted to learn to weave, but don’t have space or money, then you’ll like today’s project. Today we’ll make an ultra-portable miniature frame loom (more like a peg loom) suitable for weaving small pieces such as coasters or quilt blocks. You’ll need: Craft wire – I used 2mm aluminium wire from the [...] You’re learning to spin, and you come across a real bargain of a spinning wheel in a thrift store or garage sale – but it has bits missing, or it’s a double drive wheel and you’re finding it hard to manage. Today, building on a conversation on Craftster, I’ll show you how to make a [...] Top-whorl, bottom-whorl, rim-weighted, centre-weighted, heavy or light… when you’re beginning to learn to spin it can be hard to decide which drop spindle is best for you and for the yarn you want to spin. Spindle preference is very personal, and if you aren’t fortunate enough to live near a spinning supply store or have [...] Loom beading or bead weaving was widely used be Native American and other cultures. Conventional beading can be thought of as one-dimensional – beads are strung in a single line – but bead weaving is 2-dimensional, producing flat decorative pieces for cuff bracelets, hatbands, bags, and many other decorative items. Commercial bead looms start at [...] |
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