…number of yards you’ll need, determining the yardage of your yarn is crucial. Fortunately, it’s not too tricky! In this post, I’ll show you how to use a scale to calculate the yardage of your yarn. Materials required To calculate the yardage of your yarn, you’ll need: the yarn (duh!) a digital scale a box or bowl (to hold the yarn on the scale if you’ve got a lot of little bits of yarn) Step-by-step: How to determine…

…ly is there the cost, but she also has to adhere to strict guidelines (to accurately portray the colors and design of the logo). Each design takes about 6 months to create. Melanie charges a certain price for each kit to cover the cost of licensing. It’s what you pay to get an official product. The cost for officially licensing an NFL team would be even greater and probably out of reach. So, when someone pops up on Etsy and sells an unlicens…

…t works well for one person may be a disaster for someone with a different crocheting style. The best thing that I can do, as a reviewer, is tell you the pluses and pitfalls of various crochet hooks. What you end up loving is going to be dependent on your style! On Wednesday, you learned what kinds of hooks suit your particular crochet style (if you weren’t here on Wednesday, no worries… go do it now!). There are oodles of crochet hook…

Welcome to day 2 of Knitting and Crochet Blog Week! Today’s topic is creative photography! I’ll fess up: I’m still working on being creative with my photos. I can’t wait to have a peek at everyone else’s posts! My Current Level: I adore my baby tripod, since it allows me to take photos of me wearing my knitwear: They’re not the most creative shots, but they’re better (and at least a little more professio…

…wear them around the house, which is evidently a no-no), and so holes do occur. I decided it was time to learn to darn. Darning is basically doing a duplicate stitch over thinning fabric, or (when a hole has erupted) creating a little framework with yarn to do the duplicate stitch on. I found this tutorial, which has really great step-by-step instructions. And do you know what? It wasn’t so hard! I’ll admit: my first attempt (pictured…

…rculars and dpns. What have I been up to lately? I think my most stunning accomplishment is that I’ve learned to love garter stitch: For the longest time, I’ve resisted garter stitch because I thought of it as something for ‘what newbies who can’t purl’. Now I know better. I’ve come to love it’s squishy fabric that doesn’t curl and the meditative state that knitting in garter gets me into. Now I&#821…

…r your knitting area. It’ll serve as a reminder of what you want to accomplish… and it might give you the boost you need! If you don’t want to keep a physical photo up, Pinterest is a great site to use. I keep boards of my crochet and knitting inspirations… always something I look at! Love the practice, daily In watching the games, I’ve heard countless athletes talk about how much they love training. They love getting…

…tual-ness… follow these, and you’ll be crafting with ease! 1. Accept that your work won’t be perfect If you’re multi-craftual, then you’re only spending a small percentage of your crafting time on any particular skill. So, if you show up to a quilting group, don’t worry that your skills aren’t as advanced as some other people in the group! They’ve probably put more time into practicing! Instead, be p…

…r the class? Information in the class might be flying left and right… and it can be difficult to catch every tidbit. Maybe your goal is to learn a new technique. Focusing on accomplishing your task (as opposed to trying to remember every word from the teacher’s mouth) will set you on the path to success!…

…And a tapestry needle. (mine is a bent-tip needle, but that’s by no means necessary for this. All you need is a needle that’s big enough to fit your yarn through the eye.) Okay, now we’re ready to start! We’re going to make our magic ball by joining all of these leftover yarns together using a technique called the ‘Russian Join’. The Russian join allows you to fasten yarns together without a knot, and it has the advantage of working with any type…