Needlecraft category

  • 12 Days of Christmas Mitten Garland: Mitten 11

    Only two more mittens left to go folks! This one and #12 in two weeks. If you are following our schedule, you should be done before Thanksgiving. And here is your Eleven Pipers Piping. Download the ...
    Oct 31, 2016 1 Comment

  • Updates from the Stitch Lab: Sleeve Report

    We are cranking away as we steam towards Halloween. Just to refresh your memory, we are making the Schuyler Sisters from Hamilton, and a Lizzy Bennet Zombie. (among other things.) You can see some of ...
    Oct 26, 2016 No Comments

  • 13 Halloween Costume Tutorials and Ideas

    Kristoff Frozen Princess Dress Bacon and Eggs Evil Queen in three parts, dress, cape, headpiece and crown Princess Towel Dress II DJ Lance Hat Little Bird Dorothy Word Girl Godzilla Mini Top Hat Prin...
    Oct 24, 2016 No Comments

  • Go Blue Bear

    You may remember for the last Iron Craft challenge, I decided to learn how to do crochet amigurumi. Before that challenge, I’d really only crocheted granny squares and edging on a knit project. ...
    Oct 20, 2016 3 Comments

  • Stitch Lab Updates: Candy Corn Sachet

    Here is a quick little project that one of the student’s in the Stitch Lab created. Its a Candy Corn Sachet. Voila! The inspiration and the basis for the pattern are found on Chico and Jo righ...
    Oct 18, 2016 1 Comment

  • 12 Days of Christmas Mitten Garland: Mitten 10

    It’s time to get our lords a-leaping with mitten 10! Download the 12 Days Mittens Chart 10. You guys know the drill, there are three charts, so play with it as much as you’d like to make ...
    Oct 17, 2016 No Comments

  • Iron Craft ’16 Challenge 20 – Amigurumi

    For this last Iron Craft challenge we were asked to challenge ourselves to try something we had never done before. I while back I taught myself to crochet, but I’d never gotten beyond a simple g...
    Oct 11, 2016 3 Comments

  • Project: Zarina The Fairy

    In the movie “The Pirate Fairy,” Zarina, the main character, begins as an ordinary fairy in the Pixie Hollow community. My daughter asked me for a costume and she was very specific about h...
    Oct 05, 2016 1 Comment

  • 12 Days of Christmas Mitten Garland: Mitten 9

    I can’t believe we are up to mitten nine on this knit along already! It has gone so fast. Well, let’s move right along to Nine Ladies Dancing. Download the 12 Days Mittens Chart 9. Once a...
    Oct 03, 2016 No Comments

  • Iron Craft ’16 Challenge #19 – Plaid Christmas Tree Skirt

    For this challenge we were asked to use one or more of this year’s fall fashion trends in our project. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do and then realized we needed a another Christmas ...
    Sep 27, 2016 6 Comments