Tag: crafts
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Daily Art Musings: A First Time for Starting Over; The Necessary Evil of Frogging
“You can’t be afraid to burn everything down and start from scratch. Because the only direction you will go from there, is up. New opportunities will have no choice but to eventually open up for you.” ― Robin S. Baker I was once in love with a very expensive yarn, heathered in shades of olive, moss,…
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Daily Art Musings: Admiring Folk Art
“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina It occurred to me just how much American culture has undergone a sort of “grayification,” “squarification,” and “boxification,” which has inevitably led to a…
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Yarn Weights for Regular People
“There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you’re taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you’re letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.” — Chellie Pingree The World of Yarn When…
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How to Make an Elegant Fabric Bookmark
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are” ― Mason Cooley Although admittedly I never get through as many books as I wish annually, I love to read. It began as a struggle when I was a child, falling behind in elementary school while watching my classmates vigorously complete those old…
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Fall Knitting Plans: Autumn Colors and Memento Mori
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” — Edgar Allan Poe I always feel giddy at the slightest, sexiest scarlet leaf poking through the woods during late September. It is the sign that I require to mark…
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Big Girl Needles
“I don’t think you turn thirty and become immune to mistake-making or lesson learning. You grow wiser (supposedly) but never omniscient. There’s always something you need to be taught, and so you keep learning and you keep growing up- until you’re dead.”― Jessica George, Maame I just finished cleaning my Velvet Room―the name of my little arts…
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Consummating the Knitting Marriage
“I made this for you. I thought of you while I made it. I guess I kind of love you.” ― Elizabeth Berg My number 1 priority tomorrow is… to keep showing my unfinished knitting projects some love by actually knitting them. Sometime in 2009 or so on a fateful spring afternoon, there was…
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Simple Knitting Terminology
Bind Off (bo): The process of finishing a knitted piece by securing the stitches and creating a final edge. Blocking: The process of shaping and setting the final dimensions of a knitted piece by wetting and drying or steaming it. Bobble (mb): A small, raised decorative ball of stitches often used for texture. Cable Stitch: A technique where stitches…
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