Re-fashion Old Clothes: Turn a Sweater into Ice Pack Covers
I was looking through my stuff in the craft room and found another way to re-fashion old clothes into a useful household item, this time I turned a sweater into ice pack covers. How this came about is I found two nifty little vinyl zippered baggies which I knew when I first got them that [...]
Re-fashion Old Clothes
Today we’re talking re-fashioning old clothes, but before I get to that, I’ll tell how I got to the point where I wanted to do this. There I was looking through my over-packed closet when I decided to pull out whatever I didn’t love to wear, whatever had seen better days, and whatever was too [...]
Make a T-Shirt Dress for One Dollar
I want to show you how I made a t-shirt dress for one dollar and we’re not talking about a dollar from Zimbabwe. I get the greatest ideas for things to make just by looking at crafting blogs and then looking through my craft room. That is how I decided to make this easy-breezy dress [...]
Crochet a Useful Dishcloth
Here’s another super easy, useful and very practical thing you can crochet…a dishcloth. You know you need them to wash those dishes and making your own just gives you something fun to do while chilling. You already have all you need somewhere in the house if you’ve been trying those basic crochet stitches. I wrote [...]
How to Read a Crochet Pattern
Now that you know how to crochet—that is to say you know all the basic stitches, because I showed them to you—it would behoove you to learn how to read a crochet pattern so you can actually make something. Crochet patterns can be very confusing to newcomers to the needlecraft of crochet. Pattern makers tend [...]
St Valentine’s Day Heart to crochet
With St. Valentine’s day quickly approaching I thought I’d show you how you crochet a heart. Now that you have a good understanding of the basic crochet stitches this project should be easy. The entire project is done with just a few stitches. The body uses the half double crochet and the edging is done [...]
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