Craft Gossip

noveltywool_thumbnail.jpgaviposter.jpgblackbabyalpacasilk1_thumbnail.jpg

I just purchased some roving from Matahari Spinnery and many rovings are on sale at great prices.  They also sell spinning equipment and yarns.  Check out this site.  The ordering is a tad different, but it is simple enough.

Read more

51r0nxpcy9l__aa240_.jpg30859104.jpg30859101.jpg30859105.jpg

Felt It!

by Maggie Pace
 
You should be forewarned before diving into this book that felting has been known to cause addiction. The 20 quick-to-knit projects presented here are only going to help add to your sudden desire to felt all your…

Read more

If you are apprehensive about jumping into felting, you may wish to consider a felting kit.  Maggie Pace started Pick Up Sticks! in 2003 and is still serving us felters needs.  At Pick up Sticks you can purchase some very charming…

Read more

quilflk02.jpgshibori04.jpg

I found Alison’s blog at 6.5tst.  Alison lives in Sidney Australia and is an Architect, but more importantly a mother, wife, crafter and an amazing designer and knitter.   In my humble opinion, Alison is an accomplished photographer.  I spent an hour just…

Read more

green1.jpggreen2.jpg

Since I have been writing for Craft Gossip I have been experimenting more and more with felting.  This pendent was knit with KNIT PICKS Palette 100% wool yarn in white.   After knitting it, I put a piece of a bamboo skewer…

Read more

fairywing24a.jpg

I located this tutorial on needle felted wings on Alpaca.com .  Go and take a look around this site, as they have many interesting supplies and ideas.

Read more

dsc03092.JPGdsc03090.JPG

My friend Carol Caldwell and I created this scarf together.  She machine knit it and I did all of the relief work and the felting.   It was fun and I think we ended up with a pretty cool scarf.  To see…

Read more

After visiting what seemed to be a hundred felting sites, I happened on FeltWest.  Just sit back and look through their collection of wonderful felted items.  This site is filled with worthwhile articles also.  Enjoy and let me know what…

Read more

This is an excellent site to pickup roving, yarns and patterns.  If any of you have been lusting after Noni bags patterns, Deb has them all on her site.  At Heart Felt Knits they are dedicated to bringing you quality products and…

Read more

This felted scarf is so lovely and the pattern is free from:
Berroco
I really want to share it with you.   If anyone makes it I will show it here.
Regards,
Linda

Read more

I received my Wonder Washer yesterday and I used it this morning and it worked great.  I took the pictures below and will put them on my site so you can see them closer. 
I knitted a ruffle collar in 100…

Read more

When looking around the web for free patterns, I find that Lion Brand Yarn offers plenty.  The patterns diversity is enough to give us an abundance of projects to work on through the fall and winter.  I found this pattern for…

Read more

I am so impress by Jessica Jones’ Blog, How About Orange that I had to share it!  There is a tutorial on felted magnets, but the entire site is filled with free tutorials.  One of the most inspiring pages in the…

Read more

http://rosensweet.com/sarah/index.shtml

 Sarah Rosensweet is a Toronto based artist who combines her painting/visual arts skills with her love of sewing and crafts to create unique sweaters for children. Each sweater is constructed from a recycled vintage sweater and decorated with hand-dyed wool…

Read more

I found this wonderful blog  named Luscious Gracious that offers some very nice tutorials and I decided to spotlight the following tutorial for you, but do go and check out all they have. http://lusciousgracious.com/strap.htm

Steve tells and also gives the pattern for…

Read more
keep looking »
    Sponsors