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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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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 [...]  Crochet baskets are a pretty way to store and display bits and bobs – today I’d like to show you how to make a crochet lace basket from ordinary cotton yarn. The basket is stiffened with a generous coat of water-based varnish, though you can also use liquid starch. You’ll need: Cotton yarn and crochet [...] 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 [...] 
*special request! If you like this project, please consider casting a vote for it in the instructables.com garden contest! Thankyou * Plarn, if you haven’t heard of it before, is yarn made by knotting together strips of old plastic bags, which can then be knit or crocheted. Who doesn’t have a stash of plastic [...] Have you ever wanted to design your own amigurumi? Today we’ll learn how to turn an initial sketch into a pattern, making your drawing into a cute knitted character. There is a little maths involved, but nothing too challenging! Lets begin with our sketch. I’ve started with this little monster character. Your design can be [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] A few weeks ago, we learned how to cast on, knit, increase and decrease, and bind off. Today, we’ll add to that by learning to purl, and a rather nifty technique called illusion knitting, to make what at first glance looks like a simple striped handbag. Seen from the right angle, however, a row of [...] Today we continue with our crochet lessons, learning how to single, double and treble crochet, plus chain stitch and the magic ring cast-on. We’ll be making a belt inspired by Susan Cooper’s ‘The Dark is Rising’ novels (incidentally, if you haven’t read these books, please do check them out! I’ve reread them every year since [...] Amigurumi is a Japanese word meaning ‘knitted stuffed toy’. Amigurumi are simple to make, once you’ve learned the basic techiques, and a fun way to use up scraps of yarn. Today I’ll show you how to crochet one of the simplest shapes, a ball – and to show you just how versatile even the simplest [...] |
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