…compilation of tutorials
If you read English or American knitting instructions you always find different needle size specifications.
Now I found a knitting needle conversion chart :)
Links:
Knitting Needle Sizes and Conversions
There are more conversion charts, e.g. for crochet hooks or circular needles.
The grande dame of freeform has a blog where she presents every week a freeform scrumble, viz. a piece worked in freeform that can form a whole item together with others.
Wow!
I liked the scrumble on the picture best :)
Links:
Every Week a Freeform Scrumble (Prudence Mapstone A Scrumble a Week)
Photo from scrumble # 30
Knot Just Knitting – freeform knitting & crochet by Prudence Mapstone, see there in the upper neavigation list ‘what is freeform’
Here at unikatissima:
Freeform Needlework
If you knit lace, e.g. for the Crazy Lace Cardigan or all sorts of other things, you should always knit swatches.
And what to do with them later on? (For me this is the reason why I don’t make swatches, often to my own disadvantage ;-)).
Anyway, I’ve found something now: you can ‘simply’ make knitted lace notecards with them ;-)
I presented a site with lots of knitting (lace) patterns before, so that you can start directly ;-)
And if knitting isn’t your cup of tea, it works of course with crochet, too, as you can see e.g. with my cro-tat card for Mother’s Day.
Links:
Knitted Lace Notecards (NotecardSharonFloralSquareDoily)
via: Knitted Lace Notecards for Sharon 2009
By her own account the pattern for the knitted lace notecard on the photo is Grün ist die Hoffnung which is available as free ravelry download.
There you can read the following: “Grün ist die Hoffnung was designed for the Socken-Kreativ-Liste, a German yahoo-KAL with 2000 members.
It is available in English and in German.
You can find the English version in my raverlry store for free. Please contact me for the German version.
For more information, see: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/Socken-Kreativ-List…“
You can find photos of Grün ist die Hoffnung here:
Hoffnungangestrickt
Grünganz
Here at unikatissima:
Crazy Lace Cardigan
Knitting Stitches Galore
Simple Cro-Tat
Entries containing the word ‘knit lace’
There are a lot of crocheted flowers, anyhow I find this rose extraordinary.
I imagine it as a beautiful brooch or hair decoration.
Giant Granny Squares of apparently unfelted wool.
Wow!
I couldn’t even store the raw material in my flatlet ;-)
Links:
Giant felted Granny Squares
crochet medaillon
Actually it’s rather easy to make this necklace: you crochet with big beads und wrap afterwards interesting yarns around.
If you like you can add some extra fringes.
I like the necklace very much indeed :)
I told you before of the sewn Yoyo’s, here somebody converted the principle to crocheted Yoyo’s ;-)
I find them cute! :))
Links:
Crochet YoYo (Crochet Tutorial: Yo-Yo Puff)
Here at unikatissima:
YoYo Pin
Isn’t this a great idea to put a knitted lace into a frame to hold jewelry?
In the instruction you can also find a frame with a nice crochet lace.
By the way: actually you can use bought lace, too, can’t you? It must only be a little robust.
If you don’t like it, check again the other jewelry holders in the links below ;-)
Links:
Lace Jewelry Frames to Knit or Crochet – Knit and Crochet Pattern
Here at unikatissima:
Necklace Bust
Mini Dress-Form Jewelry Stand
Plaster and Doll Arms Jewelry Holder
I wanted to present these little, ingenious crocheted stitch markers.
I crocheted mine in less than five minutes!
She offers instructions for small, medium and large ones at ravelry.
Generally speaking it’s ‘only’ a chain ring base crocheted with single crochets – very simple as all ingenious ideas are :)
I did it a little differently:
– I wrapped a needle 3x too big a couple of times with the crochet thread and
– crocheted single crochets around this tread ring.
That’s because I don’t like rings of chains ;-)
Her stitch markers are more beautiful, but mine are sufficient for me ;-)
And I don’t have to fall back to my usual stitch markers ;-)
Links:
ravelry instructions (Stitch Markers)
Photos of her stitch markers at flickr: photo 1 (IMG_6415[1]), photo 2 (IMG_6411[1]) and photo 3 (IMG_6415[1])
Here at unikatissima:
Little Improvised Knitting Helpers
