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If your kids have a lot of LEGO blocks but don’t want to keep assembling them as kits or aren’t sure what to build, these LEGO challenge cards and other ideas should help. Too Many LEGOs? The girl loved LEGOs for many years and ended up with a ton of kits, including Harry Potter, Frozen, […]
Applied I-cord (sometimes called attached I-cord) is a method for adding a border to a knitting project that looks like a tube of knitting. It’s pretty easy to do, though it is also rather tedious. Why Knit Applied I-cord? Applied I-cord gives your projects a nice, clean, finished look. It’s a great way to add […]
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. (And all of this applies to crochet, too, of course, it was just at the time of this writing people were talking about it specific to knitting.) […]