Nerdy confession: I love plastic canvas. It’s one of the first crafty things I learned to work with way back in the day: I can’t tell you how many Christmas ornaments I’ve made as a child. Plastic canvas doesn’t seem to be very popular for modern crafters: many seem to think it’s only used to make… read more
Tapestry crochet is a color working technique where you use two or more yarns at the same time to create color patterns and pictures in crochet. Very simple patterns as well as more complicated multicolored tapestries can be created with this technique. One yarn is worked while the other color is carried underneath the stitches.… read more
I’ve really been digging thread crochet lately. The open and lacy stitch patterns are loose and quick to work up, and it’s such a contrast from the tighter wearable items I usually make. After finishing these doilies, I picked up my regular ‘H’ hook and some worsted-weight yarn, and it felt like thick rope in my hands. It’s nice… read more
Now that I’ve experimented a bit with felting, I don’t know why I was so nervous to try it before! I found a copy of the book Felted Crochet at the library. It outlines the basics of both felting by hand and felting in a washing machine. The book includes a wide variety of projects to crochet and then felt. I decided to try both… read more
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