This month’s CAL was a Wildlife-Along, so there were lots of patterns to choose from: …which led to a lovely variety of FOs (Finished Objects) from the CAL participants this month. Don’t forget to keep reading to the end of this post for details of the next CAL – starting tomorrow! Ready to visit the […]
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Archive for May 2012
beating craft business overwhelm
If you run a crafty business, do you ever feel like it’s overwhelming you? This is how I’ve been feeling: It’s the price of success: as your one-person business expands, so does your workload. At some point, you have to change something about the way you conduct business. According to this article, the options are […]
fuse bead coasters
A couple of years ago, I bought 2 bottles of IKEA Pyssla – more commonly known as Perler or Hama beads, or the generic name, fuse beads. If you’re not familiar with them, they’re little plastic beads that you arrange into a pattern or picture on a special pegboard, then heat using your iron to […]
invisible increase for amigurumi
Link easily to this tutorial in your patterns: www.planetjune.com/invinc We all (I hope) know by now about the invisible decrease, to smooth out your amigurumi decreases and make your amigurumi look much neater. But what about increasing? Increasing doesn’t have as much of a problem as decreasing, but forcing 2 stitches into one hole does […]
Polyhedral Balls crochet pattern
Not only fun to roll, stack, throw, and catch, these Polyhedral (‘many-faced’) Balls are very special: they are crocheted versions of the five Platonic solids; the only five geometric solid shapes possible where every face is identical and the same number of faces meet at each vertex (corner). Fun and educational! Not ready to make […]
Cape Town wildlife XII
This is the twelfth post in my monthly series on the fascinating nature I encounter here in South Africa. That’s a whole year of photos, and so I think this is a good point to take a step back and make some changes… I really enjoy sharing my photos with you, but the monthly deadline […]
homemade cardboard cat scratcher
Maui loves his double-wide corrugated cardboard scratchers – it’s the only type he’ll use. The pet shops here are tiny, with very little selection, and this type of scratcher doesn’t seem to be available anywhere. Luckily, we have an almost-infinite supply of boxes stored in our garage, which I kept after our move for just […]
amigurumi basics: changing colour [video]
Link easily to this tutorial in your patterns: www.planetjune.com/colour or www.planetjune.com/color I have a new Crochet Quickies video for you today, showing how to make clean colour changes for amigurumi. This is the same basic technique I explain in my original Changing Colour tutorial (and you may also want to check out my tutorial Changing […]
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