Yarncraft

Ask CRAFT: Sewing Machine Cabinet

If you have a question for Ask CRAFT, shoot me an email at becky@craftzine.com, or drop us a note on Twitter! We’d love to answer your crafty questions on any topic: technique, projects, crafty culture, or anything else! Each week the answers are here; include your name, where you’re from, and your website or blog […]

World’s Largest Knitted Poem

World’s Largest Knitted Poem

The Poetry Society recently unveiled its massive (43 ft by 28 ft) knit poem at London’s British Library. More than one thousand knitters and crocheters around the world contributed more than 1,200 12-inch squares, some blank, some with a block letter inside, to the project. The knitted poem was In My Craft or Sullen Art […]

Top Stitch Trompe L’oeil Dress

Top Stitch Trompe L’oeil Dress

Craftster user littlepierre created this stunning trompe l’oeil topstitched dress as part of her senior design class at Florida State. I love the details and how they turn a simple dress into something quite extraordinary. Fantastic! (also worth mentioning are the amazing plastic canvas pill box hats she’s wearing in the pictures) [via Mr. X […]

Sewing Gift List

I really love this Gifts for People Who Love to Sew list over at A Dress A Day, starting with a review of the Sewing Bible by Ruth Singer and Diana Eng’s Fashion Geek, running through notions (“Go nuts. Seriously.”) and fabric they’d never buy for themselves, and ending up with that elusive, magical, thing: […]