I have a friend who collects bags. Not purses, but bags. Interesting bags from interesting fabrics from interesting places. When she had a big birthday recently, the perfect present seemed obvious. I should make her a bag ... but what kind of bag? The fabric had to be South African of course. Beyond that, what …
I tend to crochet either when I need a break from my sewing machine or when I'm traveling. Crochet is the perfect travel craft -- yarn is light, you can do it in bits and pieces without worrying about interruptions, and the tools are not likely to be deemed "hazardous" materials. (I use nail clippers …
With a new baby named Rosey on the way, and a lot of plane travel ahead of me, I couldn't help experimenting with a new crochet project. This little blanket was done with a join-as-you-go, hexagonal variation of a granny square. Simple, but sweet.
This was one of my first experiments with the log cabin pattern. It's a 1-meter square baby blanket made from blue and brown variations of South African shweshwe prints. I really enjoyed the effect of the geometric prints within the log cabin blocks. There is no arrangement to the specific prints, though I did try …
Who says ties have to be boring? When I decided to make a stack of colorful ties for my choir students this year, a friend donated an old tie of his to my learning process. I took his apart, used it and a brown paper bag to make a pattern, then used the pattern to …
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