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  • Wet Felting Experiment: Can I add Pockets and a Flat Strap to my Bag?

    Wet Felting Experiment: Can I add Pockets and a Flat Strap to my Bag?

    Hello everyone,

    I am back with another bag, but that’s cause the previous two were not for me… and I realized I really didn’t like the round strap.

    So I decided to embark on a Felting Experiment and see if I could improve the architecture of the felted bag.

    I first decided to try and make a felted strap… which, as expected, was not so easy to make: it was difficult to make it look perfectly straight and with the same width… it turned out a little bumpy but not that bad after all. I did adjust it a little bit with needle felting, to take out some of the bumps and that’s it. I would say this was a success, EVENTUALLY.

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  • The Lace Flower Scarf

    The Lace Flower Scarf

    About two months ago I started trying to create a pattern for a spring-inspired scarf: I wanted to use the alpaca yarn which I had dyed in delicate pastel colours (I made a post about it, you can read it HERE) to make a beautiful scarf that I would wear on Easter Sunday.

    But the plan got a little mixed up: I finished the scarf over 2 weeks after Easter, and I guess I am going to wear it this coming September/October because it is definitely too late for wearing alpaca and mohair now 😛

    This scarf was a long process to refine: initially I wanted to make it into a big triangle shawl, it took me up to 6 samples to figure out the increase rate to make the triangle form properly… and then I figured I didn’t actually enjoy wearing big triangle shawls ><

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  • Felting 15 Years Old Wool

    Felting 15 Years Old Wool

    I am not sure I have shared it openly on my blog yet, but I am actually using up my entire stash of wool right now. I have so much wool and yarn that I bought in the last 15+ years that sometimes I think I could open a shop (and this is NOT intended as a flex)… so I have decided to not buy any more of it until I finish what I have.

    To be fair, right now I also have no budget for any more wool and yarn, so I thought I would just go for it and try and make something beautiful out of the kilograms of wool that I have, forgotten in the attic.

    So, when I got a request for a bag from my nephew (it is a gift), I went and picked some of the first wool I ever bought, which was a Kg of light brown roving… to see if I could make the bag out of it.

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  • Learn to Knit – a thoughtful Knitting Tutorial

    Learn to Knit – a thoughtful Knitting Tutorial

    Hi everyone,

    while I’ve been sharing free knitting patterns lately, I realized that even the simplest designs require a starting point. That’s why I created this Beginner’s Knitting Tutorial.

    I looked back at what would have helped me most when I first picked up needles. Through these three coaster projects, we’ll cover the essential foundations of your knitting journey.

    What you’ll learn:

    • The Disappearing Loop: A clever way to start any project: while you could start a work with a simple slip knot, this loop will make you a pro from the start, saving you yarn in the future (when you select a tail that is too short in your long tail cast on).
    • Casting On: How to get your stitches onto the needle using the long tail cast on method.
    • The Knit & Purl Stitches: The building blocks of all knitting.
    • Casting Off: How to securely finish your work in the simplest way.
    • Reading Your Knitting: How to recognize knit vs. purl stitches as you go (might sound silly now, but it is actually one of the most important skills in early knitting! If you can read your stitches, you will recognize mistakes really fast and really early… it will save you a ton of headaches!)
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