Crochet News

In the last 18 months, the Woodridge resident has donated a dozen prayer shawls, 90 crocheted hats and 400 surgery pillows to patients at Adventist Bolingbrook, GlenOaks, Hinsdale and La Grange Memorial hospitals.

If you work with yarn at all, you know how difficult it is to keep your ball of yarn clean, especially if you have pets.

Crocheting items for the kitchen such as towels, scrubby and potholders are a popular past time but another item that makes a great gift item or useful item for the kitchen is a crocheted sponge .

The various stages of the mat building process. To the left, the plastic bags are cut into squares using a craft mat and rolling scissors, next the squares are taken and looped together, those loops are rolled into balls for the volunteers who will crochet the mat.

It's hard to believe Michael Jackson tragically left this earth four years ago. This year, why not honor Jackson by splurging on handmade art instead of getting emotional while watching This Is It with your cat? Here are our favorite etsy items: Hide your MJ in this impressive Five-Piece Nesting Doll Set by artmatryoshka because you're bad, you're ... (more)

On Thursday, I announced a project to make teddy bears for Grace Healthcare Services, an organization in Edison, NJ that provides comfort and palliative care to patients throughout Central Jersey.

While not knitting per se , naalbinding is a great way to use woolen yarn to make unique household objects and garments.

Knitting is not just a winter time craft there are many knitting patterns that are suited for the hot summer months.

A woolly tarantula was seen dangling from a branch at Darrick Wood Infants School in Lovibonds Avenue as well as psychedelic tree trunk covers, crocheted flowers and knitted wildlife and bunting.

Just one week after a public art project was installed on a metal structure in The Heights, it was torn down by a vandal.

A fan of the iconic Cabbage Patch Kid toys has taken her obsession to the next level by making her own versions of the dolls' woollen tresses.

A baby pink pyjama shorts suit by Lou Dalton is the most sophisticated outfit to come out of Men's Fashion Week so far.

This is a work in progress, compiled from a variety of sources including my own experience - I do suggest reading the term explanations/glossary of the description headings - I would be delighted to hear your thoughts for improvement including what might need to be added or changed or perhaps better explained.

Once in a while men will tackle projects generally thought of as women's work. Women in pioneer days, and still today, often spend their free hours and evenings doing "fancy work" that they do not have time for during regular daylight hours.

The "yarn bombing" includes a colourful array of hand crafted flowers, in all shapes and sizes, and green shoots winding their way around the railings.

Photographer Cathal McNaughton has caught up with the Yarnbombers, the guerrilla knitters who plan to target the G8 using knitting or crochet rather than graffiti Yarnbombers Purl 1 and Knit 1 display some of the guerrilla knitting and crocheting which they plan to use when they target next week's G8 summit.

The antique quilting frame, made of cedar wood, was used by Stoudemire's grandmother and has been used to hand-stitch countless quilts over the decades.

It was the enigmatic Banksy who brought guerrilla art to the world's attention with his iconic style of political graffiti.

Newborn label WAW like our grannies made them creates intricately embroidered casuals that replace traditional shirt and sweater printing techniques with old school crochet practices.

With its reams of glittery card, shelf after shelf of patterned papers, multitude of ink stamps and not to mention embellishments and stickers, Capture the Magic in Soham is a veritable crafter's paradise.