CRAFT Magazine: Crochet http://blog.craftzine.com/blog/archive/crochet/ CRAFT: The first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance that is occurring within the world of crafts. Celebrating the DIY spirit, CRAFT's goal is to unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly imaginative and resourceful people who are transforming traditional art and crafts with unconventional, unexpected and even renegade techniques, materials and tools; people who undertake amazing crafting projects in their homes and communities. en-us Copyright 2008, O'Reilly Media, Inc. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:00:56 -0800 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:01:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Craftzine.com blog http://craftzine.com/images/craft/craft120x60.gif http://blog.craftzine.com/ O'Reilly Media, Inc. Transforming Traditional Craft CRAFT: The first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance that is occurring within the world of crafts. Celebrating the DIY spirit, CRAFT's goal is to unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly imaginative and resourceful people who are transforming traditional art and crafts with unconventional, unexpected and even renegade techniques, materials and tools; people who undertake amazing crafting projects in their homes and communities. webmaster@craftzine.com Arts nob Crochet Headphone Covers I have a pair of Grado headphones with rapidly degrading foam earpieces. Sometimes this part wears out far before the headphones, making them uncomfortable to wear. Flickr user ofenjen made little crochet covers for hers using embroidery floss and... headphonecovers.jpg

I have a pair of Grado headphones with rapidly degrading foam earpieces. Sometimes this part wears out far before the headphones, making them uncomfortable to wear. Flickr user ofenjen made little crochet covers for hers using embroidery floss and a tiny crochet hook. Crafty and functional! Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool.

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From the CRAFT Flickr pool: user Kinda Kinked made this fabulous crochet raygun. Pew pew!

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Crochet this beautiful Maggie Wrap by Robin Chachula of Crochet by Faye. The pattern is featured on Knitting Daily TV and is from her new book, Blueprint Crochet.

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Danielle Kassner designed these beautiful Finnish tapestry crochet gauntlets inspired by a sweater in the Ostrobothnian Museum in Vaasa, Finland. The pattern is available for free on Black Purl Magazine. via Lime & Violet.

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Craftster mellifluousfondue made a pi scarf for her boyfriend. The nice thing about a pi scarf is that you can really make it as long as you want.

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The new PlanetJune store has launched and June's also got a whole new set of adorable crochet patterns. This time go on safari with the AfricAmi animals -- elephant, hippo, and rhino. All three animals are about 6″ long when worked in bulky weight yarn with a G/4.5mm hook, or you can use worsted weight yarn and an E hook to end up with miniature versions like the baby elephants. Each pattern is $4.50 each or $11.25 for the whole set here in her shop.

Also, sign up for PlanetJune's new email mailing list. (If you subscribed before, you'll ned to sign up again). The good news is for CRAFT readers, sign up before the end of Monday, August 4th. and you'll get a 10% discount from the store.

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MyLifetime has a free feature pattern for these beautiful crochet lace vases by Julie Holetz from her book, Uncommon Crochet. [ via Lime & Violet ]

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Helen writes:

I organize Yarn Smackdown, a knitting- and crocheting-to-the-death competition with 12 events. It is themed around lace and the Olympics. The 12 events are beginner sock, advanced sock, bookmark, dishcloth, knitted animal, scarf, knitted stole, crochet stole, amigurumi, crochet hat, granny square, and the food fight event.

Sign-ups are open until midnight on July 31st and the competition begins on August 8th. There is no fee for competing. Knitters and crocheters can sign up at the website. The knitter or crocheter with the most points wins.

That's right, the deadline for signups is Thursday. Get 'em in and start competing, folks!

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Noreen of Hankering for Yarn has a pattern to make this crochet wasp be gone nest. Apparently, wasps will see this and go elsewhere to build their nest thinking that another hive's already there. [ via Lime & Violet ]

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Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Crafts by Alice has been whipping up some fun Alice in Wonderland-inspired crafts--most recently these cute crocheted Mome Raths. (Here's a still from the Disney movie, which she used for reference.)

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Alicia of Create! has a free pattern to make this crochet safety cone. Aren't they adorable? I love them all clustered together in the right photo.

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Featured as a free pattern on Crochet Today is the Julie Cuff by Robin Chachula of Crochet by Faye. It's from her new book, Blueprint Crochet which I can't wait to check out! [ via Lime & Violet ]

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Flickr user Here Be Dragons made a Cthulu amigurumi and posted a picture of him posing in California. Apparently a Cthulu is a creature from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulu Mythos. via GeekCrafts.

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Linda at CraftStylish points us to this free pattern to create a crocheted lace vase from Julie Holetz. I love the subtle earth tones the creator used

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Christen Haden, author of "Creepy Cute Crochet", made this USC Trojan amigurumi for her boyfriend's mom. I love a perfect union of football fandom and craftiness. Found in the CRAFT Flickr Pool.

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Sunshine's Creations shows you how to crochet Romanian Lace Cord in her tutorial and online video. You can also check out the beautiful finished work or add your own by joining the Romanian Crochet Flickr Group. Pictured above is a baby bonnet from the Flickr group.

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Craftster user Nannetta created this festive granny square handbag in fresh and fruity colors, just perfect for summer.

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Artist's page at five15 gallery in Phoenix
Pictured above (left to right): Double wranger, Strap Dandy Wrangler, and Crop Style Wrangler
Bottom left: Terissue

Recently I had a chance to talk with Amy Long, a fibers artist local to me in Tempe, Arizona. She creates very intriguing work and I'm very excited to share with you all her words on her inspirations and processes!

Becky: Where did you learn to crochet? Who taught you how to felt?

Amy: I learned how to crochet in fall 2005 in a three-dimensional fibers class at ASU. The regular professor, Mark Newport, was on sabbatical that semester so a fiber artist from Tucson named Valerie Constantino filled in. Mark knits rather than crochets, so if he had been teaching the class, I may have never learned crochet! I learned how to knit when I was a child and always struggled with it -- but crocheting came to me very quickly. My first sample/practice piece turned into a chicken. I tried to teach myself how to felt and made a couple of sheets but I really "learned" it when I was shadowing Mark Newport in a beginning fibers class. I sat in, and participated in the beginning fiber class to gain teaching experience. After learning and falling in love with felt making, I went to a workshop taught by Jean Hicks. She makes handmade felt hats. Learning felt making from her really helped me fine tune my felt.

Becky: Where do you get your materials? Is it hard to find fibers locally?

Amy: I generally buy yarn from Fiber Factory in Mesa, AZ -- they offer a student discount so I stocked up before I graduated. They sell fleece for felt making there too, but I need so much that I order big 22+ pound balls of fleece from R. H. Lindsay. I just order the natural cream color fleece, then I felt it, and then I dye it. Fiber Factory sells already dyed roving but pre-dyed stuff can be spendy. I keep my eyes peeled at thrift stores but it is hard to find wool yarn -- it is usually acrylic which does not felt. I also have been fortunate in that people give me their old fleece and yarns.

Becky: You live near Phoenix, Arizona. Is it hard to keep making work when it's over 100 degrees outside?

Amy: I can always crochet. I may work a little slower if I am exhausted from the heat. The creepy thing is that I don't leave the house much -- I just sit inside and crochet. Now, I suppose felt-making is more of a winter-time sport. It is quite physical and it not fun at all when one is really warm.

Becky: Once you create a shape you like, how to you keep track of it for making more?

Amy: I do not write patterns or follow them. I don't even know how. I often make sketches and decide on what size I want the piece before hand. Then I just try to make it match up to what is in my head. If things don't go the way I want, I just pull out stitches and re-attempt them. If I make something and I want more of it I just try to make it roughly the same. I am interested in things being roughly the same but not identical -- maybe it has something to do with the idea that everything is part of a system but each thing has something different and special to offer. Now, when I am hand-felting, like when I was making felt picture frames, I kept track of my measurements so when the felt shrank it was the correct size but even that was not terribly accurate. I am a very intuitive worker. I dive in and if need be, fix it later.

Read the full interview

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Pepperberry Crochet has been spending her crafting time whipping up these crocheted doilies featuring a nuclear trefoil motif. I can't wait to see what she ends up doing with these.

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Linda Permann of Lindamade has a great summer project up on CraftStylish -- how to embellish flip-flops with crochet.

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I love this crochet maneki neko pattern that Kathy of Mountain Weaver Fiber Art Studio has made available on her blog.

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Softies Central points us to this soft crocheted chess set by Etsy seller CozyColeman. She's offering the pattern as well as the actual crocheted set itself.

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The Ongoing Project shares her pattern for making this pretty crocheted collar, which can be whipped up in an evening.

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Linda at CraftStylish demonstrates how to make the puffy and nubbly crocheted bobble stitch.

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Vickie Howell shows you how to use up leftover yarn (in this case, sari silk) to crochet and create a Sari Scrap Bangle.

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Resurrection Fern shows us how to create this woodsy-chic crochet-covered acorn necklace. Just don't stand too close to a squirrel!

Related:
• Acorn Travel Yarn Holder
• Acorn Cake
• Acorn Amigurumi Pattern

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Phil @ MAKE heard about this great recycled purse made from VHS tape and a plastic trash bag. I wonder if the texture is softer than crocheting with plastic grocery bags.

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Craftster user Meeksandygirl created this beautifully detailed amigurumi mushroom house using colorful recycled cashmere yarns.

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On Craftster, alexandraf shows you how to make this cool-looking crochet pop tab purse.

From the pages of CRAFT: 03:

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"Pull-Tab Crochet: Create your own colorful decorations using recycled pull tabs," by The designers of Escama, pgs 118-119. Preview it now in our Digital Edition.



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Kusine has a pattern on how to make a sizzling crochet bikini. [ via CraftStylish ]

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