Yarncraft

How To: Craft a Gnome

Check out this great tutorial on how to craft a gnome from Myrtle and Eunice. The step-by-step photos are incredibly detailed and the final result is so jolly! These gnomes have a real solidity to them that gets your fingers itching to play with them amongst the leaves in the garden. This would be so […]

Knitted Ankle Bells

These knitted ankle bells that Kate from mini-eco made for her little boys would be perfect to wear to a summer music festival or dance party. And I love the word she uses to describe the feeling she had upon completion: chuffed. When I lived with a girl from England, she would throw “chuffed” into […]

Zero Waste Design

Photo by: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Simon Collins, far left, of Parsons, Scott Mackinlay Hahn and Fiona Dieffenbacher with a five-pocket jean pattern. I really enjoyed this article from the Sunday New York Times, “Fashion Tries on Zero Waste Design,” and I’ve been thinking about it all week. It was something I’d never […]

Great Ditrigonal Icosidodecahedron Quilt

George Hart on Make: Online writes: The traditional craft of quilting can be used to make many mathematical forms. While quilters have always used geometry to work out repeating patterns, some modern quilters go further in using mathematical objects as the subjects of their quilts. Here are two impressive examples by Sarah Mylchreest and Mark […]