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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 design an amigurumi

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 [...]

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Undersea Tawashi Collection

Yay! My new crochet pattern booklet is finished!

“Brighten your kitchen and wash up in style with this collection of sea creatures.

Made from acrylic yarn, tawashi save on soap, protecting real aquatic life from the phosphates in our detergents.

Pattern booklet includes 6 patterns, each using less than one skein of medium-weight acrylic yarn”

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Readers ask - what does 'no stitch' mean on a knit chart?

Knit charts aren’t always rectangular – in fact some lace charts, for example shawls or doilies, can be very odd shapes indeed. The reason for that is that the chart is meant to show you only the stitches you actually need to knit. Because charts are a visual representation of the knitting pattern, it makes [...]

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Loom beading basics - finding patterns (and making your own)

It can actually be pretty hard to find free bead patterns online – searching for ‘free bead patterns’ brings up around 300,000 hits, but most of them are either pattern sales sites having at best only one or two free patterns, or blog and forum posts from beaders complaining about the dearth of free patterns!

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