How-To: Yarn Shag Gift Wrap
Give your gifts a delightfully retro look and feel with yarn shag gift wrap!
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Giant Pom Pom How-To
I love pom poms – I’m guessing many of you do, too! Handmade Charlotte shows you how to make a giant (this thing is huge!) pom pom from a skein of yarn. What would you do with a whole box of these?
DIY Pom Poms
Corinne is the cutest thing on the planet, next to pom poms, of course. In this rad Threadbanger video C-Unit shows you how to make your own pom poms BIG or tiny and make them into awesome accessories.
DIY Yarn Sack Organizer
I love this clever (nay, brilliant!) DIY yarn organizer, or yarn sack, made with an eyelet for the yarn hole. With a young child and dog in the house, this could save my bacon. I have a plastic one someone gave me years ago, but this makes so much more sense for travel, and is […]
How-To: Easy Finger-Crocheted Scarf
I love this easy finger-crocheted scarf tutorial. It uses a Martha Stewart Caterpillar yarn, but any chunky yarn would do. I love the graphic look of this–it’s almost like cobwebs, perfect for Halloween!
Exploding Ball of Yarn
I’ll admit that until today, I had never wondered what an exploding ball of yarn looks like. But then I happened upon this image and animated GIF in Alan Sailor‘s Flickr stream, and… now I know! Alan writes, “In this case (as in many others) I walk around stores looking for cheap stuff to blow […]
Natural Dyeing
Book Review: Harvesting Color by Rebecca Burgess Review by Meara O’Reilly I recently experimented with using the oxalis plant (more commonly known as the weed sourgrass) to dye some towels a bright yellow. It was such an easy and rewarding process, I wanted to look around and see what other colors might be within reach! This book […]
