When I was a very young girl, I remember watching my great grandmother crochet around metal bottle caps. After she crocheted around each cap, she attached them together and created a grouping of grapes. These colorful groupings of grapes were used for trivets or hotpads in the kitchen. She also used them under her plants ...
What is Counted Cross Stitch? Counted Cross Stitch is one type of embroidery technique. The embroidery is created by a regular series of X’s stitched between the threads of an even-weave fabric. Patterns can be very simple or extremely elaborate and vary in size from large fabric paintings to small miniature ornaments. Though you use ...
Every kitchen needs a towel that hangs from the handle on a drawer, the refrigerator handle or from the handle on a stove. The most common hanging kitchen towel is one made from half a hand towel with a strap on the top. Step away from the ordinary and crochet a kitchen towel from 100 ...
Cold weather and coats without hoods are two things that do not go together well if you want to keep your ears and head warm. Two common articles of clothing, a scarf and a hat/cap are used to cover the head. But, there is a third alternative…… Crochet a snood, also known as a scoodie. ...
Many options are out there for staking your tomatoes. Some people use cages, while others use fencing as a trellis. The best way that I’ve found is using wooden stakes and a box of string. Indeterminate varieties of tomatoes keep growing and will flower along the stem. These types of tomatoes need to be staked ...
