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 [...]
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 [...]
Learn to Crochet: More Basic Stitches and Tips
Last time, in the hope of teaching you how to crochet, I showed you a few basic crochet stitches, namely the beginning slip knot, chain stitch, single crochet stitch and slip stitch. Today I thought we’d go over a few more basic stitches and a couple of tips to make crocheting as easy as possible [...]
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