: You actually have time to make these knitted letter ornaments for your Christmas tree, as keepsakes, or holiday gift tags.  Because all they require is an old sweater, a cereal box, a jab of glue, a little bell and a piece of string.  Easy 10-minute Christmas craft; faster if you make a dozen.

Find templates for all the alphabet letters here.

Project & photos courtesy of CraftBuds.com

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: Not all eBooks are born equally and this one is definitely born unequal to others. It’s based on Bernat’s fabulous mosaic yarn, which comes in 2012 fashion colors. Furthermore, the 12 crochet & knitting patterns in this eBook are for unique & beautiful fashion designs.  Here are two examples:  an infinity designer shawl and matching flower beanie.

Sophisticated Crochet Shawl with Infinity Symbol Pattern

This shawl or wrap is crocheted in figure 8’s or infinity symbols, which are then attached to one another in an offset manner.

To me, this shawl says true contemporary sophistication. It could have been an expensive Anthropologie-store-find, but lucky you, you get to make your own and despite the sophistication, the pattern is actually quite easy.

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The very yarn you’ll need is this one:

Bernat Mosaic Yarn ‘Fantasy’

You‘ll need to get 5 balls of this medium-weight Mosaic Fantasy yarn for this shawl.

The second pattern  that caught my eye on in the free pattern eBook is for this lacey beanie.

Petals & Lace Crochet Hat

This hat makes you stand out in a crowd. It’s equally stunning as the scarf, but a tiny bit more difficult to make and requires intermediate crochet skills.  As the scarf is easier, start with that, and then when you are familiar with the yarn, you adventure and do the hat.

Materials needed for the hat is just 1 more ball of the same yarn, Mosaic Fantasy.

So, get 6 in total.

The next thing to get is

YOUR FREE  MOSAIC KNITTING & CROCHET PATTERN eBOOK!

To obtain the eBook with these 2 + 10 MORE knitting & crochet patterns in it, sign up for our monthly or daily newsletter. (Note: Click link in confirmation respond email, and wait for an hour or so till all the computers in-between yours and mine have caught up and delivered the eBook in your inbox, or junk-mail box.)

Ah, don’t you just love the current crochet craze… I am!

More Crochet & Knitting Patterns

• Crochet
• Knitting

ref. infinity crochet scarf instructions

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Finger knitting. Did you learn it in school? I didn’t. In fact it was a visiting teenager who taught me not too long ago. Great for kids to learn how to knit, and great way to play with yarn without doing anything ‘involved’.

Finger Knitting Directions:

I hope this picture is mostly self-explanatory, but let me add some instructions on how to proceed.

What you see here is your first row that’s created by weaving the yarn between your four fingers back and forth, so that there’s thread on either side of your fingers.  This is the first step.

In the second step, you create a second row, identical to your first one.

In the third step, with your right hand, you’ll pull the yarn of the first row over the second row. 

Repeat step 2 and 3 over and over again till your finger knitting piece is as long as you’d like it to be.  Yarn off by pulling the four stitches over one another and cut your yarn in the middle of your last loop.

That’s it.

Now do what you want with it…

Finger knitting Tip:

If you are working with very thin acrylic yarn, consider to double your yarn to give your project a bit more ‘body’.  What’s fun about doing this is that you can use yarn of two different (complementary/adjacent) colors.

The alternative is to use chunky yarn, which delivers the kind of results that I love for a contemporary take on things.

Finger Knitting Project Ideas:

There are all kinds of finger knitting projects including how to make a ruffle scarf out there. I think for beginners, it’s best to keep things super simple and make a doll scarf, which requires about 40 rows of finger knitting. Add a fringe on either side with a few strips of yarn and you’re in business.

Finger knitting is quite addictive and you’ll progress so fast, I jus KNOW that you will want to make one or more projects. So, I’ve added another article with just finger knitting projects.

Other Knitting Patterns & Ideas:

Over time, we’ve featured about three dozen fashionable, but easy knitting patterns. Click the link and review images of all of them, and pick the one that pleases you. 

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Now that you’ve the finger knitting directions, let me give you some creative ideas on what projects to make using this fun knitting technique.  Finger knitting usually results in smaller projects, offering a great way to use up  bitty bits of  left over yarn, to recycle and to make accent accessories.

Here are 6 different finger knitting project ideas, that are good particularly this time of the year

1	2 ??? None has done anything like this so it seems as I cant even seem to find a sample picture for this idea… So, stay tuned. Sometime this winter, I’ll showcase you what I’ve made.
3	4
5	6

Finger Knitting Projects

1. You could make a string so long that you could create a labyrinth in your own back yard, and other such uses. (btw. This finger knitting champion is just seven years old and the string is an entire skein’s worth. Yes, finger knitting (as well as spoon knitting and finger weaving) is perfect for kids and all beginner knitters.)

2. Chunky garlands in pink for girl bedrooms some to mind as a whimsical alternative use of the super-long finger knits, or how about draped over a bed lamp shade? Or twirled and sewn onto a throw pillow, for a matching bedroom set. OK. I better make this for you, as I sure can’t find any pictures yet of this idea.

3. The most common project of finger knitting is to make a loopy scarf.  I quite dig this candy colored version. So, while this looks like a wonderfully chunky necklace to me, the idea of the knitter is actually to use it as a garland to decorate her house in Winter.

4. Now that it’s the season of chunky necklaces, take things a step further and hand crochet your finger knitting work into a a thick chain. Attach a silk or velvet ribbon on either end and there you are: fashion 2012 finger knitting necklace done.

5. Prefer chain necklaces? then follow this idea: make a series of smaller finger knits and sew each end onto the beginning so as to make a chain link. Link the chains into each other before closing them. Yes, if you make them in that special color yellow, you’ve got yourself an over-sized gold chain.

6. Or use hemp rope. It is very thin and so the result will be very loopy. Attach two single pieces of hemp on either side and add 2-3 beads to the cord plus necklace findings to finish of this project.  Tip of the trade: (see the picture) the bigger beads hide the knots of where the single hemp rope is attached to the knitted rope segment.

sources:

1 Finger Knitting Champion of the World

3 Making Chicken Salad

4 Tricotin

5 BellaMaBella at BurdaStyle

6 Elizabeth Carroll

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Just a fun short video for knitters and crochet lovers.  It’s a really cute advertisement to promote natural gas. However, it makes me want to do the opposite and indeed wrap everything in wool. 

Remember Canada’s National Sweater Day last winter, which I supported with a free wool jacket knitting pattern? Well, this is taking things a few steps further than that! Many whimsical ideas to be had from this video, such as wrapping your staircase railing in wool!  Brilliant!

Click here if you can’t see the above video frame, and you will be brought directly to the YouTube video (37 sec).

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I have this thing for recycling cable sweaters. I’m sure you all seen this recycled wool sweater lamp, which I just adore.  It just looks so warm and cosy.

Now, here’s a DIY tutorial to make yourself a matching rug for that chair near the window.  Direct recycling aka very-eco-green designer Diane Durkes pulled this project off.

sweater rug

Step-by-Step Rug Making Instructions

1. Find an old rug you can use as a base.

2. Repurpose a sweater whose style & color matches your interior design.

3. Cut it up and sew its parts onto the base rug.  Trim and tug as needed to make it fit.

designer: Diana Durkes from http://www.finedivingchicago.com/

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Free Tuxedo Jacket Sweater:

Join my daily newsletter if you wish to download this free knitting pattern. The jacket comes from the design book “Twinkle’s Big City Knits” by Wenlan Chia (adapted version, LA Angeles Times).

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Hiding your creative tools where you need them is not always so easy. As I do art, craft and decorating projects in almost any room of the house, I decided to go around and create creative storage zones in every room.

Creative Living Room Storage

Knitting and crochet I most definitely do most in the living room. The problem with that is 1/4 of the living room floor space and the sofa is usually ‘occupied’ by a creative project or two, or three.

That is of course aside from the fact that my stash of wool, cotton and other yarn take up an enormous amount of space in the general craft closet.

So, the ‘Aha’ arrived and ALL went into this handy dandy rather large storage cube, including all my current knitting and crochet projects. 

How did it all fit? Some rewinding… See that over-sized ball of delightful baby pink cotton? Well, it’s all air on the inside of its inner spool. Doing that for several balls of yarn was enough to condense its size to befit this nifty cube.  As my yarn is now more easily available where I need it, I HOPE to actually FINISH more projects in the near future.  Yes, the patterns I’ll share with you, albeit that I do a lot of inventing these days.  Most patterns are my own, so it will cost me some time to recount and chart them.

Perfect Craft Storage

When I close the lid and put a plant on top of my nifty knitting storage, none would know just how many work-in-progress projects are in there.  A calm and tidy living room space for everyone in the household to enjoy.

Many More Basket Storage Ideas & Solutions

Organizing with Baskets: 10 Styles You Can Make Own

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This is UNIQUE! An elegant, knitted pineapple bag, adorned with silver pearl beads and beaded tassels. And with this free pattern, you get to knit your own.

It’s a vintage pattern, published in 1840, by Mrs. Jane Gaugain in her book "The Lady’s Assistant, for executing useful and fancy designs in knitting, netting, and crochet work".  I have never seen anything like it, although it’s obviously been around for a while.

Do you like it?  It’s a little crazy, isn’t it??!!

Knitting Difficulty Level

99% of patterns on this site are fairly simple to super easy.  This pattern requires a bit more advanced knitting skills.

:: How to Get Your Free Bag Knitting Pattern ::

Easy as 123.

1. Sign up for our daily newsletter. (Spot that pink box on the top right of this page).

2. Click the link in the confirmation email you’ll receive upon registration. 

3. THEN* you will receive an email with this pattern as well as with many links other patterns & designs featured here at FineCraftGuild.com. 

Tip: This email with the patterns usually comes to you within a minute after you click the confirmation link. However, **if** (your) mail servers en route are slow, this may take even a whole hour or more.  

Tip: Look for the confirmation email in both your inbox and junk mail folder.

Tip: It’s best to subscribe at home where there’s no corporate firewall which may ‘eat up’ some of your email.

Tip: If you are already a newsletter subscriber, you can email me and I’ll mail you the pattern personally. 

Image source: Ravelry,  user KnittyVet

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Just added some great summer art prints to our Butterfly Crafts collection.  This gorgeous vintage butterfly clip art originated from a 1880’s Natural History Butterfly print (four stages of butterfly transformation).

Butterfly Craft	Resources Collection
	How to  Make a Simple Butterfly Mosaic  (free tutorial)
Butterfly Soap (for inspiration)
	How to Make Your Own 3D BUTTERFLY ARTWORK (Free Tutorial)
How to Draw a Butterfly at an angle (free step-by-step instructions)
	Butterfly Square – Free Knitting Pattern
Butterfly Wing – Face Painting  (free video tutorial  of this beautiful design)
	Free Butterfly Clip Art (photos & Illustrations)

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