Bug Belly Bar. Rad-Made Lucets! Friends, neighbors, vikings alike… you may recall this radmegan blog post on using lucets to make scarflets (half scarf/half necklace.)
Quite a few of you asked where you could buy these lucets, and so I decided to shape and sand a batch. Just for you! I worked on these all weekend, and will officially put them up in my etsy store tonight, along with several scarflets I’ve made in an array of colors and yarns. If you would like to pre-order any of these now, please feel free to drop me an email. (megan at radmegan dot com) In addition to just the forks, which are $13 each and come with a hand-drawn instruction booklet, I will be selling some lucet-knitting kits that include some of my favorite yarns.
Create Intricate Fabric With Pin Weaving. DIY Untersetzer. Wool and the gang™ — home. Loopy is the new crazy! « Pass the eggnog, please.
PLEASE. NOW. | Main | Drop-stitch and felted join and cheetos and gnomes. And Bob. » Loopy is the new crazy! The muppet scarf got bound off and ends woven in and now it sits happily wrapped around a nice bottle of champagne in hopes that Karman will associate that fuzzball with bubbly drunkenness. Obviously, upon finishing The Muppet I should have returned immediately to the still half-completed fuzzyfoot which taunts me each day with its partial existence. Obviously, I started a whole new project. This project has no pattern, no gift recipient in mind, and no real purpose at all ... other than the sheer joy of knitting it. Yesterday morning I was running out the door to catch the bus and needed a project STAT! This yarn is so bulky it's practically polar weight.
For no logical reason at all, I settled in to my bus knitting groove and cast on ten stitches of Caldo with size 15 bamboo straight needles. I ADORE the loop stitch. Russian Join. Today, I'm going to give you a tutorial on the Russian Join.
A Russian Join is a way to start a new ball of yarn without weaving in ends! The Russian Join is particularly helpful when:You are joining non-felting yarn (to use instead of a spit-splice)You are joining fine-weight yarn, such as fingering or lace weightYou are conserving yarn - there's very little waste.Keep in mind - the yarn will be slightly thicker where the join is, and may show, depending upon your stitch pattern.
So far, I haven't had any unsightly effects using this join, and I use it frequently! I'm using a regular tapestry needle & Cascade 220 yarn (worsted, 100% wool.) With finer yarn, I like to use a darning needle, which has a sharper point. Weave the tapestry needle in and out of the yarn - you'll be stitching the end of your strand of yarn back down into itself. V and Co how to: jersey knit bracelet. I don't know what it is about this time of year that makes me just want to have my bare feet in the sand, be watching the sun setting into the ocean, and breathing in the warm salty air of the beach...as i get older, more and more i find myself missing that place i used to go to almost every.single.day. as a teen.
(my skin doesn't miss it. as a matter of fact, i now wish i listened more and DID put SPF on my face...hindsight is 20/20). my mom calls me from her walk on the beach almost every morning... *sigh*yeah, i get a little homesick around this time of the year. heck on my pinterest my "dreaming of summer" has the most pictures in it. ah yes. i miss my ocean. case in point. this bracelet, brought a flood of memories, not because i used to have one like it but because i can totally see me wearing it by the beach, not caring that it's gotten salty and wet, because i can totally make another one in like less than 5 minutes flat when i get home. *sigh* Cardboard Weaving Loom. Granny Squares. Crocheted blocks of color made up into garage-sale afghans and late-hippie-era skirts and vests bring the 1970s to mind, but the truth is that granny squares have been a mainstay of American needlecraft for over one hundred years.
Information about their origins is scarce, but most sources suggest that granny squares were first made by thrifty settlers faced with a dearth of warm textiles. Yarn was difficult to come by in the early days of our country; too expensive to be wasted, it had to be used sparingly and any remnants set aside for future use. Mismatched scraps, worked into squares and stitched together into blankets, resulted in the hodgepodge of color and texture we now associate with the quintessential granny square.
But hodgepodge isn't the only look possible with granny squares. Yarn today is hardly the scarce commodity it once was, and the sheer quantity of weights, colors, and fibers available lets anyone working in granny-square mode emphasize appearance over utility.
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