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Wrist exercises for Knitters and Crocheters « FreshStitches

Wrist exercises for Knitters and Crocheters « FreshStitches
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! If you knit/crochet a lot… chances are you suffer from some achy wrists! I know that during last week, when I was crocheting up a storm, I certainly did! Here are a few exercises that I do to relieve my sore wrists. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Happy wrists make a happy knitter/crocheter!

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Make + party | Wire heart crown | Make and Tell This week we celebrated the Queen’s birthday. Which I should point out is no where near the Queen’s actual birthday, but we get a public holiday so I’m not complaining! And despite the fact that I spent most of the day eating and relaxing and not thinking about the royal family at all, somewhere along the line I was inspired to create a project with a bit of a regal twist. It turned out to be easier than I expected given that I almost never work with jewellery wire. So if you have a costume party coming up or just want to be the queen of hearts for a day, try this one out for size! Materials Jewellery wire (I used 20 gauge copper wire)Jewellery pliers (for bending and cutting the wire) Step 1 Bend the wire so that it forms the top of a heart shape. Step 2 Join the two ends of the wire together at the bottom and twist to close off the heart. Step 3 Repeat the first two steps above so that you continue making hearts at intervals of about 3 cm. Step 4 And it really is as easy as that! xx Steph

Secretive Storms I can't tell you how relieved I am to finally get this secret out. Literally. After seeing the number of views to my blog skyrocket from posting Stalwart Staghorn, I've been stitching my little heart out at a fevered pitch just trying to finish up this pattern in time for Friday's post. Kelli, Kevin's sister (yes, it's the same Kevin from this post), celebrated her annual 29th birthday this week. Now, I had wanted to send her one of these hats, but (selfishly) I've been too busy trying to hammer out this pattern. Ok, so I know it's free, and I'd probably make more money posting it for sale and selling three copies, but I can't tell you how much I've appreciated having free patterns available to me. Oh! *All rights to the design and pattern "Secretive Storms" are protected by copyright.

Teach Me: How to Make Lace Crowns Last week I showed you an easy way to "glitterify." Now I'm going to show you how to make the crown that all the glitter goes on! I know, lace crowns have been all over Pinterest. But none of the tutorials gave the nitty gritty details. So I got my hands dirty, and I'm ready to spill what I learned. Honestly, it was easier to make the crown than it was to get someone to stay still long enough for pictures! Materials Needed: Lace Fabric Stiffener Round container Plastic gloves (optional, but you really should use them. Step one: Wrap the container you plan to use with plastic wrap or wax paper. Step two: Cut the lace to the desired length. 15 inches works for newborn crowns. Step three: pour some of the fabric stiffener into a shallow container. Step four: wrap the lace around the container. Step five: once it's dried, peel the lace off the container. Now you can embellish it! You can paint the stiffened lace with crafter's paint, like I did with the blue crown.

Knit Bags Articles 1 - 10 of 23 << Prev 1 | | Mini Knitting Tote Make this mini knitting tote to hang on your Christmas tree or as a gift topper for an avid knitter. These free online knitting patterns show you just how easy it is. Thrifty Market Bag This bag is small enough to keep tucked away when you're not using it, but large enough to expand and fit all your groceries. Leafy Cable Bag This spacious knit sack is great for your everyday book bag or shopping tote. BeeBopper Knitted Tote Bag This cute, striped knit bag is a great size tote for any age. Uptown Tote Bag With a sturdy knit, this is a great bag for everyday! Little Knit Tote Bag This cute, knit tote bag, made on a knitting board, is a great project for beginners. 13 Knitting Bag Patterns, Backpacks, and Purses Knitters of all skill levels love quick and easy projects. Shetland Cable Knit Bag This cable knit bag is made with chunky yarn and a toggle closure for an earthy finish. Easy Knit Backpack Striped Yoga Mat Bag

Friendship Bracelets Macraméd friendship bracelets were all the rage when I was growing up in the eighties. All the girls at my school would obsessively make them for one another in a dizzying variety of colors, widths, and patterns. It's amazing, thinking back, that such young girls could make such beautifully intricate accessories. I, of course, tried my hand at making them as well. Fast forward 20 years: Purl Soho started carrying DMC Cotton Embroidery Floss in every conceivable color (including fluorescents! Making friendship bracelets is a surprisingly easy craft, and best of all, in the end you'll have a bunch of cute summer bracelets to give to your pals. Materials Since this is such a free form enterprise the amount of colors of DMC embroidery floss you get is really up to you. Please not that the fluorescent thread is slightly thicker than the regular DMC floss. Beginning To begin, pick out your colors. For patterns use a doubled length of thread cut each color to a length of 72-inches. The Left Knot

Purses in nalbinding: 'Mystic spirale, but I'll change the name' [lots of pics] My first posting, I'm very excited! Since I have discovered craftster, I'm addcited. Thanks to everyone for all the inspiration! Thousands of things that I just love. But... no nalbinding. I do a lot of nalbinding. My first purse: front side, closed Seen from the back with the lid open.Handspun wool (not spun by me), hand dyed with rose leaves (a rose bush had just been cut very short in front of our house and I couldn't resist it), nalbound in Korgen Stitch F1 UOO/UUOO. I needed a purse quickly for a new medieval outfit and tried the newest dye (leaves of roses). My second purse: I call it the Bollywood purse, because I stitched it while I was watching a bollywood movie on TV, which gives you a lot of time for progress handspun (not by me), black wool from black sheep, yellow wool hand dyed with nettle. The yellow was my first attempt at dyeing larger amounts of wool, and I fell totally in love with it, because it turned out neon yellow! The third and fourth:

Ren Hoek Tapestry Crochet Tote Bag/ Ready to by eMLeeCrochetGifts Duct Tape Flower What up duct tape? Did you miss us?! For today’s bit of DIY accessory magic, we’ve figured out how to turn 3M’s Scotch Color & Patterns Duct Tape into gloriously neon rosettes. A fold here, a twist there, repeat a few times, and you’ve got a charming rosette to turn into a ring, pin, pair of earrings, or a little hair bling. Materials: - duct tape - scissors - ruler - accessories: earring backs, barrettes, comb clip, pin We used an array of neon duct tape as well as a fun snakeskin pattern as an accent for the hair accessory. We’ll start by showing you the step by step for our turquoise rosette ring. Repeat until you’ve folded all 20 pieces. Twist the first one into itself so it looks like the photo above. Cut off the bottom of the rosette so that you have a flat surface to attach your ring. Don’t worry about being gentle – duct tape is ridiculously durable! To make a ring, simply fold a piece of duct tape over itself lengthwise, roll into a ring and tape.

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