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Crafty Monday: Amulet Pouches

Since we traveled over Christmas, I had to get my ducks in a row before we left. Fortunately, I had seen a pattern for knitting with scraps of yarn. (it is in this book) My version is pictured here. Sometimes, when they were very young, my kids didn’t have pockets, or didn’t have enough pockets, [...]

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Fingerless gloves

I was knitting a ho-hum dishcloth, and used it twice already within a week. I need to replace my current supply badly. I made t-shirt yarn for this last dishcloth. I’ll review that another time, in order to write right now about something more exciting – fingerless gloves. My daughter has been part of a teen book [...]

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Homemade tubular yarn

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Experiment time from last week: homemade tubular yarn This last year has been full of t-shirt yarn tutorials. (Go ahead, do a google searh for ‘t-shirt yarn tutorial.’ You’ll get a gazillion results.) I purchased a few skeins of tubular yarn for a pattern, and it was pricey. So it’s fun to recycle old t-shirts [...]

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Open Mesh

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Finished another dish cloth. This pattern is a mesh that I found on Lion Brand’s website. I used scraps from my stash. All I have left now (in kitchen cotton at least LOL) is white yarn  You might also like:Quote of the DayRecent Smelt ActivityCrafty Monday: Flip Flop Cuteness

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