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Julie Finn wrote this for Crafting a Green World and she shows and explains just how to create these adorable stockings.   Julie writes: Every Christmas Eve with my mom (you know about my mom, right?), she drags out these…

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I bought these adorable acorns from Kim Buchheit of Wildly Woolly and I love them.  I have a small black bowl filled with them on my coffee table and people always ask where I bought them.  I always tell them…

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Flora is knit and felted in Ultra Alpaca, then enhanced with free form felted flowers.  I think this is an adorable bag that can be made for the holidays.  This would be an amazing gift to gift to family or…

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This Needle-Felted Blanket is such a great idea and each step is shown in a video.  You can pick your color scheme for your room or this would be an amazing holiday gift.  Use your imagination as far as shapes and…

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Martha’s Stewart does it again.  These pumpkins are amazing and easy to make.  Assembled from yarn, rope, and foam balls, these homespun pumpkin decorations are simple to make. For each, gently press top and bottom of a Styrofoam ball against…

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I found the instructions for this adorable Mummy Doll on Woman’s Day magazine web site.  There is a written knitting pattern for you to follow with felting instructions.  I am going to get the yarn tonight and try one.  These…

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Since my daughter is expecting her first, I have been looking more at baby knitting and crochet patterns.  I have totally fallen in love with these slip-ons for adults and babies.  The free pattern gives instructions from newborns through adults…

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What a fascinating fiber artist featured on Lion Brand Yarn Studio.  Joetta has created a stunning wall hanging for this occasion.  Her work will be shown from now until the end of October we are proud to display her wonderful…

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Who does not love frogs?  They are fun to watch and kids love to catch them (ever if they may get Warts)!  This little guy is worth trying using wool and I am going to needle-up and try felting him. …

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This very cute necklace came from “instructables” and I am going to try one, so cute!

Rowsoprose tells about her creation. “Heavy metal chains conduct cold–and another word for diamonds? Ice! So if a girl wants to accessorize and keep…

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This is a very bittersweet review of Barbara Albright’s “The Natural Knitter”.  Barbara wrote both knitting and cooking books.  Sadly she died last fall of a brain tumor at the age of 51. This was her last book, and regrettable…

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We have heard so much about felting old wool sweater, but maybe you would like to use the wool yarn from a sweater to knit or crochet something new.  Neauveau fiber arts has a high-quality, pictorial tutorial on how to…

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Faith, Hope, Love, Knitting by Lorna Miser, is a charming book that it’s almost an autobiographical knitting project book. Lorna invites us to join her on her self-discovery trip. When she was a little girl her desire to knit was…

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Nikola went to the farm to see the animals up close, but she so a group of women making fuzzy hats and poking crazy needles into the fluffy pieces of fiber. She relates that she almost knocked everyone over…

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