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New York Sheep and Wool Festival

On a rather cold and dreary day (yesterday, in fact!) a friend and I went to the New York Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, New York. For almost five hours we walked around booth after booth after booth, barn after barn after barn, just everywhere natural fibers and all the tools of the trade [...]
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Some more IKEA craftiness

It seems my previous IKEA hack was pretty popular, and though these aren’t hacks they are IKEA related: This tote I made from IKEA canvas fabric (bought 1 yard of it). The key I purchased at Portobello Road in London at one of those random trinket stores along the road that sells old findings. Just [...]
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The beginnings of a cowl

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New yarns and Boye needles

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Trans-Pacific garter stitch

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A call for crafters—help out the victims of the Everett fire!

As most Boston-area residents know by now, yesterday there was a massive gas-truck explosion in Everett, Mass., which took out many cars and several homes in a huge conflagration. I don’t know if you’ve seen the photos, but the destructive power of the fire was positively hellish. Miraculously nobody was killed or even hurt in [...]
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