The beautiful butterfly stitch makes a statement but is a relatively simple stitch to learn. The butterfly is formed by gathering the slipped stitches together forming the "wings", with the gathering stitch creating the body. A little history on Smocking. "Embroidery...
Top Knitting and Crochet Trends for Spring 2019
Been meaning to do a recap of this Spring's hottest trends in fiber arts, specifically to enhance your Knitting and Crochet projects. This post contains affiliate links at no extra cost for you. Thank you for checking them out. We've assembled a list of great...
10 DIY Mother’s Day Knitted and Crochet Gift Ideas
Mother's Day is around the corner and there's nothing better to give to the greatest woman in our lives than a gift made from the heart. We've assembled a great YouTube playlist with some gift ideas to make for mother's day. Here are some of them: The Knitted Wash...
Halloween Pompoms – Candy Corn, Pumpkin, Ghost, Eye Pompoms
The Halloween Pompoms Tutorial is finally here! I've spent various days figuring out the best tools, yarn and techniques to get pretty pompoms that look like different lovable Halloween creatures. So I ended up with: Candy Corn, Pumpkins, Ghost and Eye pompoms. And...
Have a Spooktacular Halloween 2016
Booooo! Got ya, didn't we? Are you ready for a Spooktacular Halloween? It's that time of the year again...for candy overdoses. Oh, come on....we know you ate some of that Halloween candy you had for the 'kids'.....;) (oh, wait a minute. That was me... hahaha) Ok, so...