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Origami. Knitty. WigUsing straight needles or one set of circulars, cast on 96 sts. Work in 2 x 2 rib until the piece is as long as the distance between the bottom of your chin, and your eyebrow (about 6.5"), ending with a WS row. NOTE: The extra stitches along the edge of the work will balance the width of the first and last ribs. Later on, when the bangs are added, these stitches will become parts of purl ribs. If more length in the main body of the wig is desired, work more rows at this point. Next row [RS]: work as before, but slip the first and last stitch. Bangs With RS facing and using backward loop cast on, loosely CO 32 sts. If more length in the bangs is desired, work more rows at this point. Work Decreases Using diagram B below as a guide, rearrange stitches on needles and add stitch markers. NOTE: Decreases will be worked identically at the front and back of the wig. Begin decrease round by working decreases over bangs.

Reclaiming yarn from a thrift store sweater & ***Warning*** This is a very photo-heavy post! Since starting my blog, a few people have shown interest in learning how to recycle sweaters for the yarn. I spent the weekend working on a tutorial! On Friday, I went to our local Salvation Army and struck gold. Five sweaters. The teal sweater on top is a cotton/ramie blend, the green, pink and light blue sweater are all a blend of wool/angora and nylon and the darker blue sweater is merino. I chose to use the darker blue one for this tutorial because it was the smoothest yarn and was a little thicker than the rest. The first thing you need to do is turn the sweater inside out and remove all the labels.

This is a good seam. This is a BAD/serged seam. I like to call these pieces the zip cords. This was the hardest picture to take for this tutorial! Begin taking your sweater apart! Ta-da!!! Now you’re ready to start unravelling your sweater! I start with the smaller pieces of the sweater and work my way to the larger ones. There’s one! Keep going! Craftgawker | look to inspire. Felt Gift Tags. These cute gift tags are a great way to use felt scraps. I wanted these to be a fun, stress-free kind of project because as we all know, no one needs any added stress during the holidays. With all the travel, shopping, cooking, and entertaining going on I just wanted these tags to be a nice thing to do while watching holiday specials on TV or hanging out by the fire. If you get 3 of them done, great!

If you manage to sew a dozen, bully for you! There's no pressure, you already have the presents, this is just the cherry on top! Materials Holiday Wool Felt Bundle or leftover pieces of any wool felt.contrasting Valdani Embroidery Threadone page of white card stocka Felt Gift Tag Template, available for free download here, printed and cut out Cutting Cut a small rectangle from your card stock using the template, put this aside. Trace both template pieces onto a piece of felt and then cut it out. Embroidery Pin the back piece of the felt to the front window piece, wrong sides together. Mozilla Firefox.

Free Fabric Friday. December is looking merry and bright around here! We received several beautiful collections this week. In the spirit of the season, we’re going to give away a little bit of all of them. Little Folks Voile by Anna Maria Horner We’re very excited to have the complete collection of Anna Maria’s newest group! This 54″ wide cotton voile is a beautiful, light-weight fabric with a silky, flowing drape. It’s great for quilting and apparel and can be used as a sheer in home dec applications. Dolce by Tanya Whelan Tanya Whelan’s new group is a departure from her usual style but just as (dare we say “more”?) Wild Thyme by Carolyn Gavin Carolyn Gavin of Ecojot has taken some of her fabulous designs to cloth! Quilts of Gee’s Bend Solids from Windham Fabrics We have packs of 23 fat quarters of hand-dyed poplin solids from the Quilts of Gee’s Bend fabric group.

Don’t forget our current Quilting For Peace Team Sew,Mama,Sew! Wrap Them in Love quilts. How to transform an IKEA vase into a Charging Station for your g. …a simple idea with an even simpler approach… I live in a small apartment and I own several small devices that are energy-greedy. I tried in the past to dedicate some space near a wall plug, to charge them all, but it always looked bad and cluttered. I searched for a professional solution to buy, but they are either expensive or ... really expensive! And usually not future upgradable... So I decided to build one, and the result was a BULKY IKEA box that laid on the floor for quite some time behind a rocking chair. After furniture rearrangement (chic!)

, I used that space and I was left with no-money. THEN it struck me!! (The eagle-eyed viewers already noticed that the photo couldn't be taken in my living room but i have a great excuse ... Plan: Knock Off of the Pottery Barn Stratton Bed. Marnie MacLean. // knitPro. A Planet Named Janet. Janet Nelson (jangogh)