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Featuring: Grannyspiration Challenge Projects

Warm up with some yummy soup this week, check out these Grannyspiration Challenge Projects and make some great Granny Square projects, make this Valentine’s Project with a Free Printable or crochet a new project for the new year! Lots of…

HOW TO ADD YOUR PROJECT TO RAVELRY

Add A Project To Ravelry

This quick visual tutorial will show you how to set up a project page on Ravelry! Keep track of what you are working on and save your progress; including your yarn and hook information. For the purposes of this quick…

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All About Crochet | Book Review

Title: All About Crochet – The Dictionary of Crochet Stitches and Techniques Author: Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss Publisher: Martingale Photographer:  Carol Wilson Mansfield ISBN: 978-1-56477-906-9 All About Crochet is really a Dictionary all about crochet. If you are looking for a Crochet Pattern…

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How To Make a Double Crochet Stitch

Unless otherwise indicated, when you chain 3 to start a row of crochet it is counted as the 1st double crochet of the row. This means you already have a double crochet stitch in the first stitch of the row…

Crayon Fun!

There are many tutorials online indicating how to melt broken crayons into ‘new’ crayons. Some use a double boiler technique – placing the crayons in little tin cans over a boiling pot of water. Then pouring the melted wax into…

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How Do I Print Your Free Patterns?

  I thought it might be helpful to write a quick post to answer a question I have been seeing more and more frequently over the last few weeks 🙂 How do I Print Your Free Patterns? I would like…

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How I make my own buttons!

Last month I shared a free crochet pattern featuring one of my handmade buttons. I have had quite a few requests asking me how I made them – so here is your quick and easy button making tutorial 🙂 As…

How to Code Your Blogger Blog to No Follow External Links. Oombawka Design.

No Follow – How to Code Your Blogger Blog

In an effort to make my life a little bit easier I have searched and searched for a way to make all my links (except my own!) “no follow” – In case you are interested in doing this too –…