Spinning Alpaca Yarns

Fashion Designer Julie Nash uses alpaca yarn almost exclusively for her 1970’s style knit dresses and ponchos. See a slideshow of her collection at Fashion Week El Paseo on March 25.

I’m finally getting around to making my first felted bowl. I found a list of links to free felted bowl patterns I wanted to share, plus some others that aren’t free but don’t cost much. I’m turning minebowl into an Easter basket, complete with felted eggs.

I knitted this simple yoga blanket for use in my yoga class. It’s small and convenient to carry and it cushions my knees, head or hips.

I’ve never seen a slouch hat pattern for the knifty knitter so decided to invent my own pattern. Here is the resulting slouch hat, with instructions.

Latest photos of new baby hats made on a knifty knitter, along with links to free knifty knitter patterns.

Would you like try knitting for profit? Here are some different types of knitting businesses and how to get started in each one, plus resources for setting up an online store, learning to blog about knitting and other knitting for money ideas.

Slouch hats are all the rage and finding a slouch hat knitted pattern, similar to the slouch hat worn in the movie, Twilight, isn’t easy to do. Here are the slouch hat knitted patterns I found after several hours of searching the net. Most are free and 2 are from Etsy.com.

These felted bags by Holly Craft are made from recycled wool sweaters. I’ve also found a terrific crafting website with lots of designs and a few felting books I wanted to share.

Needle woven tapestry is easy to do and you can use a homemade loom. Make tapestry woven jewelry or fiber wall art with the folk art look. Creates a unique and beautiful piece of art to wear or display.

Christmas in Texas with snow and knitted scarves and hats for the grandkids!