A daily dose of vicarious crafting
Amigurumi creations are one of my favorite crafts ogle. For those of you who have somehow escaped them until now I’ll let Wikipedia get you up to speed:
Amigurumi is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures. Amigurumi are typically cute animals but can include inanimate objects endowed with anthropomorphic features.
Cute is the operative word here. It’s crazy how the simple addition […]
I’ve seen knit veggies popping up everywhere but none I’ve seen so far can hold a soy candle this incredibly intricate knit beet. The two-tone frills on the leaves, and the veining details are awesome. Wanna knit your own beet? Order the pattern booklet from berroco. via you grow girl.
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I have been wanting to make a bag like one of these, literally for years. I remember these great cotton string bags my grandmother used to always have in the back of her station wagon when I was in grade school. She’d use them for her library books or groceries, and they were the perfect little […]
I started this blog after I realized that I spend way more time looking at crafty things than making crafty things, a practice I’ve dubbed crafterbation. I wanted create an outlet to share all the great crafty things I find that I would love to make, if only I had the time and the motivation to actually complete them. When the mood strikes and I do actually make something, you can read about that here as well.