Doily Crafts – Inspired ideas : Maggie's Crochet Blog. Some crocheters love doilies with their intricate designs, while others find them time-consuming and boring. Whether you crochet a doily yourself, find it at a craft store or stumble across it at a second hand shop, there is so much craft potential for the doily. Doilies are conventionally used as decorative mats, but let’s just forget that for a moment. Let’s step out of the box and get creative! Here are are some inspired ideas for doily crafts. What will you do with your doilies? The idea for this alternative to the typical jewelry box came from The Great Society: This Blog is Going Smash.
Turn a doily into a bowl. Add some elegance to a clutch with a doily. No more boring lampshades! Add a stylish twist with doilies to your wedge shoes. This specific blue doily necklace was made by Carrie from This Mama Makes Stuff; however, she followed a tutorial from Bleu Bird Blog to make it. Lori from Smile and Wave has a DIY blog on how she arranged these doilies to create this awesome pillow. Tutorial: Knitted-on Border - Miriam Felton.
A knitted-on border is a great way to add an interesting edge to a shawl or wrap, or to add some decoration to the edge of a sweater or tank. I’ve used this technique many times, including the hem of the Demeter Camisole, in garter stitch as the edging for my second Pi Shawl, and most recently the border for the Foliage Shawl, which will be released tomorrow. The most wonderful thing about a knitted-on border is that it gives you an edge that is not only decorative, but elastic enough to withstand severe blocking. Quite often, the stretch and openness of lace will be too much for a traditional bound off edge and an alternative must be found. There are many bind-offs specifically for lace, but none of them give quite the same decorative touch as a knitted-on border. The basic premise behind a knitted-on border is that the border stitches are worked at a 90 degree angle to the body stitches.
The border is joined to the body as you work border rows by a joining decrease. Knitting Tutorial: How to Sew Elastic into Sock Cuffs - Un Petit Squab : Un Petit Squab. Did you really already finish knitting Chipps? Did you enjoy carrying the yarn up? I am amazed, you are the quickest knitter ever! Now you just need to sew elastic into the cuffs and your socks will be perfect. This is how you do it, it’s really simple, but I figured you could use some nice big clear photographs to help you along. Basically to start you turn the sock inside out, cut a piece of sock elastic (this is what I used ) to be about 30 or so inches long and tie it close to the bottom of the cuff (see below for how to do a half hitch to secure it). Then you start threading the yarn, from right to left, through one leg of each knit rib. Keep spiraling up the cuff until you reach the top. Whenever you start to run out of elastic, just tie a little square knot onto the next length and trim the ends to about 1/4″.
When you’re at the top you’ll want to tie the elastic off the same way as you tied it on, which is to say, like this. Pull it snug and trim the tail to about 1/4″. Cheers, Sweater Wheel. About 40 years ago, I purchased a pair of sweater wheels from a Herrschner's catalog. There was a set-in sleeve version and a raglan sleeve version. Each wheel had children's sizes on one side and adult sizes on the other side. After many years, my sweater wheels look as if they have been through the wars. And in a way they have been. I always kept them covered with a clear plastic bag to protect them. The sweater wheels indicate that a Bea Freeman put a copyright on these devices in 1969. Each sweater wheel consists of three cardboard circles: There is a larger middle circle that contains rows of numbers radiating out from the center. The effect is sort of like "dial a sweater". Sweater wheels are sometimes offered for sale on E-bay.com auctions.
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