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tunisian crochet resources

15 September 2023

mannequin with a black long sleeve tshirt wearing the multimesh cowl looped three times

Over the past few years, I've fallen in love with Tunisian crochet. It was a long time coming. Honestly I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. When I was a child, I wanted to learn to knit and couldn't figure it out. My mother couldn't and said it was "too hard" so she hated it. We both knew …

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technique tuesday: granny squares (& other motifs)

15 August 2023

stack of multicolorful motifs in progress on a black background. in front are 6 centers, the stack includes the first 3 rounds for the "literary fragments blanket"

Happy Granny Square Day! Don’t worry if you didn’t know that was today (15 August); I hadn’t heard about it until earlier this week. May your counting be correct and your ends weave themselves. Granny squares were the next thing I learned to crochet after perfecting miles of chains. When I was 7, …

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3 tips for washing wool

22 October 2021

a plastic bowl with sudsy water and some knitting. a post it with "gauge" handwritten, a pen, and a small ruler is in front of the bowl

It's my favourite time of year -- I'm no longer the only person wearing and washing woolen items. Today I'll discuss 3 tips for caring for items that are made with wool. While this post is written mostly geared to knit socks, it does apply to other woolen items. A future post will discuss both short …

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knitting stripes, a tip to “carry up”

08 October 2021

knit striped swatch, in purple anda varigated purple-green-grey yarn. The striped sections are seperated by solid purple knitting.

The first time I worked a project in stripes I was confused what it meant to "carry up". How did I do that? My sole reference book at the time simply stated: "Wrap the working yarn around the other yarn(s) every 2-3cm (1in). Make sure the yarns do not pull."[1] Did I twist the yarns together to the …

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Fixing Mistakes

09 October 2020

If you look closely at my progress on the High Sierra Shawl in my last post, you'll see that the edge looks different from other samples. I read the instructions and intended to follow them, but my fingers did what they wanted. My eyes warned me it wasn't correct, but I was too excited by the …

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stitch rhythm

26 June 2020

Has this happened to you? You fall in love with a yarn and a stitch pattern and are determined to stay the course even when it's obvious they're not a good match? Perhaps the yarn is too variegated for the stitch, or it doesn't work for the yarn structure, or it's not the right stitch for the maker …

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