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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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Just a quickie today – knit this pattern in intarsia for a pretty stripe, border or edging, or bead it as a cuff bracelet, hatband, or just one repeat as a tiny amulet bag. Have fun! And take a look here for more free butterfly knitting and loom-beading charts. New to loomed beadwork? Here’s how [...]  This pretty tam has a stranded colourwork pattern of flowers and butterflies, and a scalloped picot hem. You’ll need: 1 skein (approx 150m) each of 2 colours fingering weight yarn 3mm circular or double-pointed needles, or size to obtain gauge. Yarn needle for finishing Gauge – 19 sts/24 rows to 10cm Fits large woman’s head [...] Meep, looks like I spoke too soon when I said we were back! Hopefully from now on we can get back on our regular schedule (touch wood). Today we’ll take a look at knitting into the row below, a stitch which is used to create some reversible stitch patterns such as fisherman’s rib (also known [...] Another freebie for you This Discworld chart can be loom-beaded as a bag panel or wallet, or knitted in intarsia. You could also work it in crochet, needlepoint or cross-stitch, though this will stretch the design out sideways. You’ll need: 3 shades of green (dark, medium, light) 3 shades of brown (dark, medium, [...] Whee, more reasons to celebrate! Last week we hit 150 posts, and for the first time hit 100 000 pageviews a month! To say thanks to you all for reading, spreading the word, and generally being nice people (yay!), I’d like to give you a sneak preview of my forthcoming pattern book. It’ll be out [...] On Wednesday, I showed you how to make a heddle bead loom from cardboard. Today, lets take a look at how to use the loom. Tension-loom beadweaving is known as double-weft. The weft thread passes through each bead twice. Heddle loom beading is double-warp – the weft thread passes through each bead only once, but [...] I’m now on my fourth or fifth marathon re-watch of the last season of Doctor Who, and today I decided I’d pay tribute to one of my favourite scenes with this little felt Ironside Dalek, politely offering you a cup of tea Daleks have been scaring us since 1963, and have had many design [...] Today, let’s finish up our series on designing your own amigurumi, by combining the techniques we’ve learned so far. Of course, many simple amigurumi patterns can be improvised on the fly, but working out the outline of a pattern beforehand can save you having to rip out and redo parts of your design, and ensure [...] I hope you enjoyed our first two amigurumi design tutorials, where we learned how to calculate an amigurumi pattern, and how to add shaping to your amigurumi. Today, we’ll look at a couple of techniques for joining and splitting tubes, so that you can add limbs and appendages without sewing. If you want limbs to [...] A little while ago we looked at the first steps of how to design an amigurumi. We learned how to break down a sketch into simple shapes and how to translate that into a pattern. Today I’d like to show you how to add an extra dimension to your designs, adding curves using tall-row shaping. [...] |
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