Tag: tutorial

Tutorial – How to make a wooden christmas tree

Five years ago I took 2 large pieces of cardboard, cut out a christmas tree, and wrote a tutorial about it. That cardboard christmas tree lasted a few years, but in the end it got recycled together with yesterday’s newspaper. The year after, we decided to go for the same theme, but bigger, and with a longer expiration date. A...

Dinosaur pen case

Drawing is a passtime that’s very much liked in this house. With pencils, crayons and felt tip pens. Felt tip pens of which you can wash out the ink, just to be on the safe side. Before, all these utensils were kept together in a plastic bag. There was definitely some room for improvement. With the backpack theme still in...

Book binding for lazy housewives – The washi tape method

In my previous post I already mentioned Kathleen’s blog calender, which you can find on her blog Verbeelding. Apart from that, Kathleen also shared a very handy  sewing planner. I’m starting to consider Kathleen as my personal organiser 🙂 To keep all those sewing plans nicely together, I wanted to make a booklet, as I’ve already done before. But since I’m pretty inpatient and...

Tutorial – How to make a cardboard Christmas tree

Not in the mood for a real christmas tree, feeling arty, and happen to have loads of cardboard lying around? Why not make a christmas tree out of it? Here’s how to do that. Tip: Try not to sit on your cardboard while measuring and cutting. Unless you like the knee dents, then by all means, go ahead. What do...

How to knit intarsia in the round

When you try to find information about knitting intarsia in the round on the internet, most of the time you’ll be told that it’s not possible. The big problem when you try to do it: your yarn ends up at the end of your row, while you need it to be at the beginning. If you don’t like bending the...

How to work in I-cord

An I-cord is a small knitted cord, used for instance in hoodies, for handbags, or, in my case, for cat toys. They mostly consist of 2 to 4 stitches and are really easy to make. What you need 2 double-pointed needles (dpns) 1 tapestry needle How to do it Cast on the necessary amount of stitches on one of the...

How to join in the round

When knitting in the round, the hardest part is to join both ends when knitting the first row. Once you get that done, you can just keep going. There are different ways to join in the round, and all these ways can be applied to both dpns and circular needles. This is the way I do it: Cast on the...

How to darn socks

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had this thing with socks. Bright and beautiful with fun cartoon characters on them, you name them and chances are I’ve had them. I particularly remember a pair of yellow Bert and Ernie socks I had as a teenager. They were a present from my best friends’, and I regarded them as...