Helpful links:
General Crafting
Knitting
Quilting
General Crafting
- Graph Paper - including hexi and diamond (on point settings), knitting (asymmetric) and more
- Crochet Stitches - basic
Knitting
- Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off (in Knitty emag)
- my Kitchner Stitch / Grafting Cheat Sheet plus short rows in the round
- Tech Knitting Techniques - Tulip Buttonhole
- Set in sleeve calculations - very detailed (Interweave Knits)
- Steeking (Euny Jang)
- Steek enclosed in facing (Purl Soho)
- Shoulder Shaping with a steek (Feral Knitter)
- Calculate number of stitches to pick up (Sister Mountain)
- EZ's Sewn Bind Off (Angela Rangel)
- I cord Applied Edge and Grafting (La Masion Lililie)
- Zipper (jacket - separating) Paprika, Knit Picks (notes on shortening zippers), Chic Knits (metal zipper, two way zipper, how to set up 'zipper bands' in a cable knit), Modern Daily Knitting (types and weights of zippers, more on edges)
- Cross stitch fabric calculator
- DMC floss (by color family)
- Mary Corbet - stitch pattern library (videos) - Needle 'n Thread
- Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank
- Needlework finishing tutorials by Mona of the Silver Needle
- Needlework finishing - photo tutorials by the Twisted Stitcher
- Vonna Pfiffer finishing videos on YT
- Framing Needlework (photo tutorial)
- Blackwork borders and fills
- Parking technique - Carolyn Mazzeo (10 x 10 squares), Boss Daughter (Handwork Maniac) (10 stitch rows)
- Skin tone conversions (DMC colors) by lordlibidan
- Zweigart Linen count names
- More finishing video tutorials Helen D
- Sandra Cozzolino Santa Designs (Willmaur and Mill Hill) - link to her Facebook group album
Quilting
- Mattress and Quilt Sizes
- GormetQuilter on YouTube - quilt as you go joining
- On point setting
- 100 FMQ filler designs - Leah Day
- http://www.quiltingstencils.com/ - Country Bride and Amish Feather and Cable stencils, Celtic, too.
- Folding a quilt to minimize creases.
- Foundation Paper Piecing tutorial (Leila Gardunia) - also "Year of Scrappy Triangles"
- Continuous Bias Binding - 2 seams
- Fabric Organization - uniform folds for cuts from quarter yard to yard
- Stack and Whack / One Block Wonder design tool
- Garden Maze setting tutorial
- Jo's Scrap Sorting (white and cream tones) / part 2 (strings) / part 3 (color theory - cool v. warm)
- Perfect mitered corners with border prints (J Beyer)
Bags and Totes
- Zippered Wedge Tutorial
- Side Zipper Envelope - shows how to insert needlework into a bag front
- Squishy Bag - video tutorial
- Vinyl Pouch with quilted backing
- Open Wide Box Bag
- Fabric Box tutorial - cubby sized
- No zipper pouch
- Fifteen project pouches - list of links
- Elizabeth Ann Can Stitch video tutorial - two half yard cuts of quilter's cotton fabric (one non directional for lining), 14 in zipper, Fusible fleece interfacing (Pellon 987F)
Garden
- USDA Hardiness Maps - I am in Zone 6A
Garlic - plant in fall (mid Oct), harvest scapes (flower buds on hardneck varieties) in late May, harvest bulbs in late June/early July (when tops just start to die back on the outside layer - about halfway).
- Frost Dates (Farmer's Almanac) - 4/20 and 10/14 (30%) 5/1 and 10/10 (10% chance) 150 to 175 day growing season
- ForJars Canning lids and rings
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