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Wrap-up for Little Beaded Pumpkin KAL: Stuffing and Closing

Posted on September 29, 2013 by jackiees

After the knitting of Little Beaded Pumpkin is completed, we are ready to finish with a light stuffing and closing off the bottom. Stuffing The saran wrap I used for the pumpkin stuffing is certainly non-traditional (or at least I … Continue reading →

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Facial Features vs. Featureless

Posted on August 30, 2013 by jackiees

For my design of Kitty In Your Lap Towel, I left the facial features to the viewer’s imagination. I usually like the minimalist approach when it comes to adding facial features vs. not, but you might prefer to add them. … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Holes of Lace

Posted on August 27, 2013 by jackiees

I hope you’ve found that Kitty In Your Lap Towel is an easy to follow and enjoyable “moose lace” project. For beginners, it should be a nice experience in lace since it is on larger needles with larger yarn than … Continue reading →

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Single Bead Placement in Front of Slipped Stitch

Posted on July 15, 2013 by jackiees

How to Place a Bead in Front of a Slipped Stitch (the first of 3 beading methods used in the Mini Sock project). Includes design goals and limitations to consider when playing around with bead embellishments in your other knitting … Continue reading →

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Stringing Beads in a Planned Color Sequence

Posted on July 8, 2013 by jackiees

Beaded knitting is fascinating and fun. There are multitudes of ways to incorporate beads into your knitting. Even the simplest methods produce impressive results. Beaded knitting methods in BOBBOL 2013 projects (so far) In previous monthly projects this year, we … Continue reading →

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Extra Bonus: Sizing Up Dolly’s Top-Down Tri Shawl

Posted on June 30, 2013 by jackiees

You can use this outline for upsizing the doll-size pattern to child size or even adult size. Wouldn’t it be great to make coordinating doll and child size shawls for a daughter/grand-daughter/niece/etc.? Because of the top-down triangle shawl shape, making … Continue reading →

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The Continuous Attach-as-you-knit Lace Edging Bind Off

Posted on June 29, 2013 by jackiees

Dolly’s Top-Down Tri Shawl features a continuous strip of beaded lace edging along front bands and bottom of the shawl. See how in this photo tutorial. To complete Dolly’s Top-Down Tri Shawl, we knit an edging onto live stitches, thus using the … Continue reading →

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