This was an interesting challenge, we were asked to make a project that contains something unexpected. I’d been wanting to play with adding things to classic toile fabric for awhile so this was ...
Apr 26, 2016
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I’ve been in Minneapolis for nine years and this year I finally made it to Yarnover, the MN Knitter’s Guild day-long event filled with classes and shopping.
I took a class in the morning ...
Apr 25, 2016
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Last month Matt and I took a fabulous trip to the island Hawaii. For the first part of the trip we stayed at Volcanos National Park in the historic Volcano House Lodge. What a stunning place with a br...
Apr 21, 2016
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If you have been following long at all, you know that I have been knitting a pair of mittens for the MN Knitters’ Guild Yarn Ends Challenge. The idea is to use up all those little scraps of left...
Apr 19, 2016
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It is time for me to get working on my submissions for this year’s MN State Fair competitions. I decided to knit up the Pride and Prejudice Mittens that I designed for an Iron Craft challenge la...
Apr 18, 2016
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For this challenge, the Iron Crafters were directed to use dots in their projects. Who doesn’t love a good polka dot?!
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Apr 14, 2016
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This week’s challenge might require a little thought. We would like you to create a project that contains something unexpected. Perhaps it’s a juxtaposition of two contrasting elements, li...
Apr 13, 2016
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For the current Iron Craft challenge, we were to incorporate dots into a project. I bought some Sharpie paint pens awhile back and have been wanting to use them to decorate some cheap porcelain. This ...
Apr 12, 2016
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Don’t you love it when you continue to learn and grow in your craft. I fully admit that I always have more I can learn about knitting. Yarn or color dominance was one of those things I’d ...
Apr 07, 2016
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I am offering a Cosplay/Costume sewing class at the middle school. When I started talking about it, I realized that I did not know ANY of the characters that the girls wanted to make. One girl said sh...
Apr 05, 2016
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