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Welcome to the home of fivemoons. Home / Leading Men Fiber Arts. Tuto vetements. Designs by Romi: Elements - Page 1. Introduction to Knooking. First of all, I have to give a big “thanks” to Grieney at Ravelry who came up with the term “Knooking.”

Introduction to Knooking

Not only that, she even wrote a theme song! So what IS knooking? In a nutshell, it’s making actual knit stitches using a specialized crochet hook. Nope, it’s not Tunisian, slip stitch, crochetnit, double crochet, or any other knit-look-alike stitch. It’s actual knit and purl stitches. The technique and hook itself appears to have originated in Japan under the name Japanese Super Miracle Needle. Super Miracle Needle The American version is called the Amazing Needle, and can be purchased from Amazing Yarns. Amazing Needle It also appears that cabled crochet hooks may also work, such as the Denise Interchangeable Crochet Hooks, and possibly the KnitPro Symfonie Interchangeables. Denise Interchangeable Crochet Hooks Knit Pro Symfonie Tunisian/Afghan Crochet Hooks So what is so special about these hooks?

And now for our Theme Song: (Sung to “Makin’ Whoopee”, natch) Another skein, another wool. Knitting Needle & Hook Chart. Elann. Stitch-Finder. Yarn Comparison Chart. Are you looking for a yarn comparison chart?

Yarn Comparison Chart

The world is getting smaller these days (okay not literally but you know what I mean) and it is far more likely today that you will have a pattern or some yarn from a country that uses a different measurement scale. If you are in the USA - do you know the American equivalent of 4 ply? Or if you are in Australia and you have a pattern for worsted wool - do you know which ply to buy to make your garment?

Yarn Comparison Chart The tension is the number of stitches and rows over a 10 cm square knitted in stotcking stitch. All of the needle sizes in the chart are stated using metric measurements, if you need to convert them into UK or US sizes you will find a needle conversion chart on the needle sizes page. Yarn Size Demystified. About Yarn I'm not going to bother repeating a lot of yarn facts because I believe they've been explained well enough by The Craft Yarn Council of America and Fabric University.

Yarn Size Demystified

If you really want to understand your stash better, you'll want to bookmark these sites. As you read the rest of this article, you may need to refer to these sites for terms you're unfamiliar with. Yarn Weight Chart (or 'how many WPI is that?') Yarn%20Weights%20and%20Measures.

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Blogs & sites créateurs ou amateurs. Home. Standards and Guidelines for Crochet and Knitting. The publishers, fiber, needle and hook manufacturers and yarn members of the Craft Yarn Council have worked together to set up a series of guidelines and symbols to bring uniformity to yarn, needle and hook labeling and to patterns, whether they appear in books, magazines, leaflets or on yarn labels.

Standards and Guidelines for Crochet and Knitting

Our goal is to make it easier for industry manufacturers, publishers and designers to prepare consumer-friendly products and for consumers to select the right materials for a project and complete it successfully. Included are: We urge manufacturers, publishers and designers, to adopt these guidelines. Downloads of the graphic symbols are available at this web site at no charge. We ask that if you use them in any publication that you advise us in an e-mail of your intention to use them and that the following credit line be given: Source: Craft Yarn Council's www.YarnStandards.com.

Actualité. Petit journal de bord de la semaine passée - Les Rêves de Véro... J'ouvre pour vous mon journal de bord de la semaine passée.

Petit journal de bord de la semaine passée - Les Rêves de Véro...

Modèle "T Boléro à motifs ajourés" du livre Crochet Mode, ed de Saxe. J'ai changé les manches qui ne me plaisaient pas (trop "pleines"). Laine Suiza 2000 (3 suisses, pour crochet 3, 159m: et oui, le stock descend...),6 pelotes de 50g crochet n°4. Samedi dernier, dans une grande librairie je feuillette ce livre dont beaucoup de modèles me plaisent. Choisir sa laine - ALEXenVRAC. 7 choses à savoir concernant le crochet ~ Maman Fée du Crochet. 7 faits incroyables concernant le crochet que vous ne connaissez certainement pas: Toutes ces affirmations restent à vérifier, par exemple concernant le magazine Penélopé qui n'est pas allemand mais Hollandais.

7 choses à savoir concernant le crochet ~ Maman Fée du Crochet

J'ai trouvé des archives numérisées de cet ancien périodique dédié aux loisirs féminins sur Google Books : Vous et moi l’appelons "crochet", tout comme les français, les belges, les italiens [faux, les italiens utilisent le terme "uncinetto"] et les espagnols. On le connait sous le terme de "haken" en Hollande, "haekling" au Danemark, "hekling" en Norvège et "virkning" en Suède.D'autres formes d'artisanat comme le tricot, la broderie ou le tissage peuvent être datés loin dans le temps grâce à des archives, que ce soient des sources textuelles ou des représentations graphiques de divers types. Le crochet géant! Bon, vous aviez bien compris, malgré vous peut-être, que nous sommes dans une période crochet .

C’est comme ça, ça ne s’explique pas, c’est l’air du temps… Et dans la grande tendance CROCHET il y a une niche encore plus chouette: le crochet géant . C’est beau et spectaculaire. Clothogancho2.

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Tejido Crochet. Crochet sites. Tutos. Crochet tunisien. Fournisseurs de fils. Crochet. Châles/Couvre-épaules.