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KNITTING 101 EBOOK Free!

I’ll admit I am a sucker for free- especially free books. When knitting and free come together? Score!

(I’m not even an affiliate of them, I’m just a fan!)

Knitting is an amazing craft where you learn to how to use two sticks and yarn and create fabric that can become a scarf, hat, sweater, or most anything you can imagine. Some of the great advantages of knitting are that its an extremely portable and that the fabric is very subtle and drapable. Its one of the reasons so many of us love to knit sweaters. At fashionknit, we teach you how to knit by hand and provide a supportive environment. Knitting is a two handed experience, so it truly doesn’t matter if you are right or left handed. You hold a needle in each hand and will learn to hold your yarn as well. There really is only one stitch to learn: the knit stitch. Once you have mastered the knit stitch, you will see that the purl stitch is just doing the knit stitch backwards. Everything else you learn is simply a combination of knits and purls.

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Free Coloring Book! “Color Historic Buffalo” 

A coloring book of historic buildings in Buffalo New York. All illustrations in this coloring book were adapted from the book Buffalo Illustrated: Commerce, Trade and Industries of Buffalo, published in 1890 by Anderson & Gillette and the Courier Printing Company. The copy used to create this book as well as many other wonderful items can be found in the SUNY Buffalo State College Archives and Special Collections.

Source: “Color Historic Buffalo” by Josh Rakower M.E., M.L.S.

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Before I forget- NY Designer Fabrics is having a 15% sitewide sale! (affiliate link)

Easter Sale is ON. Use Code: EASTER15 at Checkout and Get 15% OFF Site Wide
Use Code: EASTER15
Easter Sale is ON. Use Code: EASTER15 at Checkout and Get 15% OFF Site Wide

 

 

The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide

Originally posted at SULOisia värejä 

The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide

Posted on lokakuu 14, 2015 Kirjoittanut

An e-publication The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide – Experiment with recycled colours! (20 pages) is out! In the guide we show you the secrets of garbage dyeing, give you instructions of how to make inks and printing pastes, carve some potatoes for printing purposes and pattern some paper – fun and ecological recycling in mind. The guide is made for everyone interested – but especially for teachers and group councelors. We are glad if our guide can be utilised in teaching or any group activities.

Our guide is made to be printed at home. It is shared with Creative Commons licence, which gives permission to share, copy and print it for non-commercial use. Download, share with your friends and have fun!

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The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide – Experiment with recycled colours!

– Ulla & Päivi

The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide – Experiment with recycled colours!
Text & pictures: Ulla Lapiolahti and Päivi Hintsanen
Layout: Päivi Hintsanen
Proofreading of the English print: Miia Huttunen and Frankie Robertson
Jyväskylä 2013, Jyväskylä 2015
ISBN 978-952-93-6329-2

The original Finnish booklet (published in 2013) was supported by the Jyväskylä Art and Science Foundation.

You may save the guide to your own computer, print it and share it freely with others. It is forbidden to modify the guide or use it commercially.

Creative Commons license
The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide – Experiment with recycled colours!, made by Ulla Lapiolahti & Päivi Hintsanen, is licensed with Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.

Sweet Waste Dyes Guide

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