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Now learning to crochet is as easy as browsing Crochet Me. You will find detailed instructions, hundreds of patterns, and plenty of inspiration to get your hook moving.
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Happy Thanksgiving! To celebrate this day of abundance, I'm giving you a present—thanks to a 13-year-old boy who learned to crochet little scarves for Beanie Babies. Here's the story: Shortly after my last enewsletter, about scarf patterns, I received an email from a reader who wanted to...
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A couple of weekends ago I spent a few days in Portland, Oregon. There to see the west-coast premiere of Handmade Nation , the documentary about the indie craft movement, I ended up enjoying the best crafty weekend in the history of my life. After touring around some crafty hotspots around the city,...
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UPDATE : The preview of the Spring 2008 Interweave Crochet is up. I hope you enjoy! Kids, I missed CrochetMe.com's fourth birthday! It was two weeks ago. Happy birthday to us! Also, I'm over a third-of-a-month tardy in shouting out National Crochet Month . Doing anything special to celebrate...
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There are longer, better blog posts in the wings -- hopefully for the weekend. But for now, I simply have to share. Remember when I got back in touch with a middle school friend after I read her comment on the Yarn Harlot's blog ? That was pretty amazing. Two weeks ago I joined a site just as me...
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In yet another bulleted blog post, I'm catching up on a couple weeks' worth of chewy crochet bites. Fifteen-year-old Elena Stefania Ferrari of Beverly, MA was awarded first place in the Knitting/Crochet category of PieceWork Magazine's Excellence in Needle Arts Awards . Apparently, she only...
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Guido interviewing Kim Originally uploaded by knitgrrldotcom . I had such a blast meeting Guido of It's a Purl, Man fame when we were in Somerville, MA at Spark last week. It's way weird to hear my own voice. Do I always hyper-articulate? The interview is here (mp3 file). My favourite stitch...
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A year after we went to Burbank, CA to tape, Uncommon Threads is finally premiering in early July on the DIY Network (click the link for details). Though the specific Crochet me episode air times aren't listed yet, they've put up summaries of the lamely-titled Contemporary Crochet Home Decor...
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A few weeks ago I shared a couple of photos of my husband learning how to crochet with his tongue stuck out. Our dog joined in and stuck her tongue out, and it was too funny not to share. As an update, no, my husband has not touched a crochet hook since. Did you really think he'd make a habit of...
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Decades ago, home-ec classes existed to teach women how to, well, keep their homes. By the time I was in middle school in the late '80s, home-ec class was co-ed and we learned about sewing, cooking, embroidery. And, well. That's all I remember. It was like a freebie class. My teacher was mean...
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This week the unlikely happened: After over a year of watching my crochet thing evolve beyond the realm of all that is practical and reasonable, my husband learned how to crochet. It took a visit from Crochet me Contributing Editor and instructor extraordinaire Cecily to get him to take the plunge. But...
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Hold on a minute! You mean she didn't know how to crochet before she went to prison? Huh. Now I can tell my friends to stop making so much fun of me.
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The academic journal Mathematical Intelligencer has published its first crochet pattern. What's it of? Chaos, of course! From PhysOrg.com: It is not often that a serious mathematics journal contains a crochet pattern, but the current issue of the Mathematical Intelligencer has instructions on how...
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I just read this article , and wonder what you think about the questions: Why are crocheting and knitting experiencing a huge comeback right now? Why are so many young(ish) people learning how to crochet and knit? The article mentions the following possible factors: Celebrity stitchers like Julia Roberts;...
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This sounds like a cool way to cut down on plastic in our landfills: "... there will be a demonstration on how to crochet plastic grocery sacks into handbags, swimsuits and beachwear."