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Yarn Mixing

6/22/2014

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I'm always looking for great yarns for hats and headbands for my vegan customers.

The other day I decided to create my own.

I paired an acrylic mohair-look yarn with an Italian novelty yarn called Jewels. 

This Italian yarn has a lot going on: it's a tiny boucle interspersed with thin woven strands in variegated colors and metallic Lurex, accented by inch-long velvety poufs in bright colors.

See the closeup below.  So pretty.


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Tiny Buttons

6/14/2014

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I like how these tiny, translucent buttons from France have a lot of impact for their size. (Only 3/8 in./1 cm in diameter.)

And the orange color is delicious.





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A "Duh!" Moment in Hatmaking

6/7/2014

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When I crocheted a beanie in sock yarn, I noticed that half of the hat was mostly pink and the other half was mostly blue.

This did not seem to be a good thing.

The problem, I realized, was that a head is bigger around than a foot.  (This is not the "duh" moment; that comes later.)  So what was supposed to be alternating pink and blue stripes on a sock turned into a pool of pink and a pool of blue, evenly divided, on the beanie.

I put the hat away for a bit.  Months, actually.

When I came back to it, I saw that what made the beanie look weird was that the right half and the left half were different.  What if they were the same?  
I could achieve this (Duh!) by turning the hat so that the front was blue and the back was pink, or vice versa. Now the sides would match, and the pooling didn't look like a mistake.

A little symmetry goes a long way.


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    Elvee Dickinson:
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