While stitching has many health benefits, it can be hard on our bodies if we aren’t intentional and careful. I know many of you have probably heard this before, but are you listening? Have you applied what you’ve heard? In this convenient, everything-at-your-fingertips-on-your-phone world, it has become all too easy to sit in one placeContinue reading “Caring for Your Body While Stitching”
Category Archives: crochet
Sometimes, it’s just not time.
This is not the time for me to work on the crocheted sock adventure. It is still something I am curious about but it isn’t grabbing my attention right now like some other ideas that I have. Therefore, I have decided to put the project away, carefully. I want to retain the info I haveContinue reading “Sometimes, it’s just not time.”
Stacked or Staggered?
When working in single crochets, increases and decreases are more pronounced than they are when working with some other stitches. Sometimes this can be help and other times it is a distraction from the finished piece. Helpful when choosing where to place legs on your amigurumi, distracting on the top of a hat that nowContinue reading “Stacked or Staggered?”
Swatching and then Reclaiming Yarn From a Swatch
I feel like I am following in someone else’s footsteps time-wise as I write this. I’ve had the idea for a while to write this post but wanted it to be in the correct order with the other swatching posts. Edie Eckman recently wrote a post about reclaiming yarn from UFOs and WIPs and that’sContinue reading “Swatching and then Reclaiming Yarn From a Swatch”
Swatching
A couple of weeks ago when I wrote the post about Gauge vs. Tension I said that I would write another post and share some details about swatching, so here we are. There are many crocheters and knitters who don’t like swatching and never do it. Swatching is still stitching, I’m not sure why weContinue reading “Swatching”
What is a “Turning Chain”?
I have seen some interesting things come across my desk lately that involve the turning chain. I also have some info I want to share with you, thought I already had but I can’t find the post, so here we go. Let’s start with what is a turning chain? It can also be referred toContinue reading “What is a “Turning Chain”?”
Technology and Fiber Arts
What was once a daily needed skill has been relegated to art or hobby in many first and second world countries. Working with different fibers using our hands and some basic tools has been a survival skill of humans, almost since day one. Joseph’s family kept sheep and he had a woven tunic of manyContinue reading “Technology and Fiber Arts”
“Inclusive” Sizing
I am going to preface this post with this might not be what you think and it is possibly a direction you haven’t thought of yet. I am not against inclusive sizing but I’m not totally for it either. Continue reading to learn why. When I first started hearing about inclusive sizing for yarn patterns,Continue reading ““Inclusive” Sizing”
Gauge vs Tension
Many stitchers use these terms interchangeably, for others this is the reason why they don’t swatch and still some don’t know what either of these words is referring to. As a designer and tech editor these words are important to the work I produce and how I educate designers and stitchers on how to useContinue reading “Gauge vs Tension”
Vintage Crochet Technique #1
This is the first installment in what I am hoping will become a series, not scheduled but shared as I stumble upon them, of vintage crochet techniques. What do I mean by that? Techniques in crochet, either in the stitching or in the writing, that were the “norm” about 40 years ago, but that confuseContinue reading “Vintage Crochet Technique #1”
Azariahs Fibre Arts 