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The provisional cast on is a great way to start a knitting project when you are going to want to work from the cast on stitches again. For example you might work a scarf with a lace motif you want to make sure goes in the same direction down each side of the scarf, or […]
Basic stain removal is so important in helping your clothes last longer, so let’s take a quick look at how to get blood out of fabric. It happens to everyone and is actually a pretty easy stain to deal with as long as you have a few tools. What I Use to Get Blood Out […]
The waistcoat stitch crochet pattern is sometimes called the crochet knit stitch because it’s the crochet stitch that looks the most like knitting (in this case, stockinette stitch). It can also be known as center post single crochet, because you’re working into the center post of the stitch. It makes a dense fabric of v […]
It’s easy to make a pillow form out of any fabric you might have in the house to use with a pillow cover or even on its own. My pillow form is made from part of an old pillowcase and I intend to cover it, so it’s not quite as perfect as I might make […]
I recently wrote a post about what I think about when choosing yarn for a knitting project, which is about how to substitute yarn in a general way. But there’s been a lot of talk in the knitting community the past few days about offering more yarn options in knitting patterns and whether it is […]
I have been on the lookout for free women’s shorts sewing patterns for a while now because all my purchased shorts don’t really fit anymore (the pandemic pounds are real!) and even though I’m mostly inside, summer in Arkansas is real. I thought I would share with you some of the free women’s short patterns […]
I know a lot of places are starting to open up again but where I live and a lot of other place, numbers keep climbing and I think we’re going to be home as much as possible for the foreseeable future, so we’re still very much in quarantine crafts mode. While I’ve ordered a few […]