Mari of “Small for Big” Is sharing a traditional God’s Eye into Spider Web for a fabulous Halloween decoration. I find her idea to be charming and original. She decided on this for her little daughter Birdie for yarn-based projects … Read More...
DIY Yarn and Felt Halloween Wreath
Jesse of “Just Flew the Coop” is sharing a very cute “Felt Halloween Wreath” with us. This is a spooky Halloween DIY project that may scare the younger children away, but I love it! She has a complete tutorial for … Read More...
Making T-shirt Yarn tutorial
Laura Hickman on “baking outside the box” has a tutorial for “Making T-shirt Yarn”! There are so many tutorials on using T-shirts for so many projects that you will want to learn her technique. Our sewing editor Anne Weaver has … Read More...
Yarn Wrapped Letters for Fall
Sarah of “repeat crafter me” is sharing her idea and tutorial for her darling “Yarn Wrapped Letters”! I have been seeing these letters with decorative Felt characters around the Internet and you can make these in your choice of … Read More...
How to make: A Dream Catcher (Molly Moo Day)
Is this not the cutest dream catcher you’ve ever seen? Well Michelle of Molly Moo made this for her daughter Molly as promised. Michelle has her own unique way of creating a colorful and delightful dream Catcher for a young … Read More...
Red, White, and Blue: DIY Hanging Yarn Art
Ellen Foord from “made remade” has this delightful “Red, White, and Blue: DIY Hanging Yarn Art” for display to celebrate all the patriotic holidays. She has a step-by-step tutorial for us to follow and tells us that the expense of … Read More...
How to Make Yarn and Felt Folks
How darling are these little dolls. You can make them to fit your occasion. Diane Gilleland, contributor to “Craft Stylish” is sharing her excellent tutorial “How to Make Yarn and Felt Folks” and pattern with us. She shows us how … Read More...
Caron’s New Yarn Helps Support Kids of Fallen Soldiers
Caron has launched a new yarn, called Caron United, that aims to help the children of soldiers who have died in the line of duty as well as providing a good experience for knitters.
The yarn is 100 percent … Read More...
DIY Yarn Napkin Rings Tutorial
“How Mom Craft” has this chic “DIY Yarn Napkin Rings” Create your own DIY Napkin Rings. You’ll need toilet paper or paper towel rolls, yarn scraps and hot glue. Cut the toilet paper rolls into 1” strips. Glue an end … Read More...
Jeran is a wife and mother of 3 and hosts her excellent blog “Oleander and Palm” filled with interesting and useful postings. I love her “DIY Yarn Art” with a tutorial showing us just how to make and hang it. … Read More...
Have an Old Fridge? Use it for Yarn Storage
Admittedly this is a yarn storage solution that is not going to work for many people, but it’s just so darn cool I couldn’t resist sharing.
The clever blogger behind Inspiration and Realisation found herself with a small refrigerator that … Read More...
Make a Fluffy Yarn Easter Nest: Tutorial
Donni of The Magic Onions is mom to a daughter and son and blogs out of Southern California. Her son had made a yellow yarn chick and then her daughter wanted to make something. When Donni asked her what she … Read More...
DIY: Yarn Wrapped Hair Comb
Katie lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and cat. She hosts “Lemon Jitters” and has this fun and pretty “Yarn Wrapped Hair Comb” with step-by-step tutorial! This will be so much fun if summer ever comes and we want … Read More...
Yarn Bowl Easy craft
Carolyn is a freelance marketing manager and a blogger on “Carolyn’s Homework”. This was her third day of her paper Mache paste craft-a-thon and she came up with this darling “yarn bowl” with easy instructions. I am seeing these in … Read More...
Yarn wrapped wine bottle = bud vase
This so much fun from for St. Patrick’s Day from “Cleverly Inspired” hosted by Tracie a wife and mother of twin 🙂 She repurposed an old bottle and filled it with flowers. Tracie shows you step-by-step how to create her … Read More...
Wrapping up Stash-Busting Month
Whew! When I had the idea to do a “little series” on stash-busting this month, I didn’t quite realize what I was getting myself into. It ended up being 16 posts full of ideas, advice, patterns and inspiration.
I hope … Read More...
Organizing and Keeping Track of Your Stash
This is the part of talking about stash that I’m really not equipped to talk to you about, because I’m really bad at storing my stash in any rational way. Every year or so I will decide I’m going to … Read More...
Stash Busting with Knitted Toys
I don’t knit a lot of toys, and I don’t know why that is, because I always enjoy doing it and they’re so sweet and fun to look at and play with.
But dolls and other toys are a great … Read More...
General Stash-Busting Project Ideas
Over the next week or so I’m going to be sharing a lot of different specific patterns that would be good for stash busting, but first I wanted to offer some general considerations for using bits of stash in projects … Read More...
Organizing Your Stash for Knitting
This is probably going to be the first of two posts about organization, because organizing your stash in a way that will encourage you to use it is slightly different, to my mind anyway, than organizing it for more long-term … Read More...