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Category Archives: Stash Couture
Bubbles and Butterfly Kisses: Instructions Continued
From Yoke Instructions: Body of Sweater: Rows 48 – 55 start the lower portion of the sweater. Knit them in Stockinette Stitch (Knit right side rows, purl wrong side rows) with MC. End with purl row. Divide for Sleeves: Summary: … Continue reading
Bubbles and Butterfly Kisses: Yoke Instructions and some Stitch Count Philosophy
Bubbles and Butterfly Kisses: A True Destashification Project. Knit with 100% Stash Yarns. This is designed to be a fun project. Don’t let being off by one or two stitches interfere with that fun. Please scroll down for philosophical discussion … Continue reading
Bubbles and Butterfly Kisses: A Destashification Sweater
Knitting Instructions posted here. All knitters have it… It may be hidden or carefully stored, but it is there…. That skein – and that other skein – of yarn purchased “awhile back” for those scarves. It was called “novelty yarn” … Continue reading
Posted in Knitting, Stash Couture
Tagged knit topdown, popcorn stitch, top-down child cardigan
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More Memory Jacket
The Memory Jacket was a hit! My mother was thrilled with it and spent quite a bit of time trying to identify each of the embellishments. The center back panel was crazy quilted and heavily embellished. The lower right back … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy Quilting, Embellishment, Goddess, Sewing, Stash Couture
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The Memory Jacket
My mother asked that I create a “Memory Jacket” for her 80th birthday. Crazy quilting, charms, embroidery are combined with bits and pieces to create a jacket identifying occurrences in her life. The farm in Iowa where she grew up … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy Quilting, Embellishment, Goddess, Sewing, Stash Couture
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If you Give a Mouse a Cookie…
The Destashification Version of the Story: If you give The Destasher several yards of fine woolen fabric, she will need a pattern. If she finds a pattern in The Stash, it will specify interfacing. If she goes to the store … Continue reading
The Purse d’Resistance is now a Backpack!
Last summer, the Purse d’Resistance was created to carry all the necessities during a month of travel. Unfortunately, somewhere in the creative process, visual and textural interest trumped common sense. As a result, the base and body of a purse … Continue reading
Posted in Accessories, Crazy Quilting, Embellishment, Goddess, Purses, Repurpose, Sewing, Stash Couture
Tagged sewing backpack
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Surely, there is a pattern that will fit…
A comment stated and heard repeatedly by those that sew. Included in the 2012 New Year’s Resolutions was to do “whatever was necessary” to sew a top that actually fit! Two requirements were common themes across every website visited on … Continue reading
Posted in Sewing, Stash Couture
Tagged making a muslin, pattern adjustments, sewing that fits.
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Football and Knitting
Are you ready for some football? Line up the Unfinished Knitting Projects from the Stash, knitting needles, and a coffee – turn on ESPN and the playoffs and… I…it is time to knit! Football and knitting! A great Destashification Weekend! … Continue reading
Luscious Yarn = Lovely Sweaters
The Yarn Stash is more tactile than The Fabric Stash. It contains yarns spun from qiviut, cashmere, silk, merino, linen, bamboo (even some wool and acrylics) and combinations there of. Yarn just has a feel that is difficult to resist. … Continue reading
Posted in Knitting, Stash Couture
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The Destashification Project 