"[...] in the next scene, she is wearing a pair of crocheted leggings, which allow her deformed limbs to slide smoothly across the wood floor.
She moves easily, as though she doesn't know there's anything wrong with her legs at all."
posted by batmonkey
on May 6, 2013 -
8 comments
Do you like vintage needlework? The
Antique Pattern Library is a collection of scanned craft books that are in the public domain. They contain patterns for crochet, knitting, tatting, netting, embroidery, needle lace, beading, and other crafts. See also
Home Work, a Choice Collection of Useful Designs for the Crochet and Knitting Needle, and
Beeton's Book of Needlework.
If vintage instructions aren't your thing, try
lace edgings from 1846 updated for the modern knitter.
posted by bewilderbeast
on May 17, 2010 -
12 comments
So you've spent the holidays playing games, but now you have to be back at work. How to get your gaming fix during commutes and lunch-hours, whilst keeping up with that resolution to Learn Something New this year? Well, you could make a
Sack-Boy. You can keep your portable games device warm with a
Zelda cosy. You can knit up a
Pacman scarf or a Space Invaders
bag or
socks if you're feeling retro. Or you can make a
pocket ninja, an
invincibility star to get you through the afternoon, a
maqgnetic Katamari ball to spring-clean that desk, or a friendly
companion cube. (and if you're too cack-handed to knit, you can sew a friendly cube with the pattern
here and tutorial
here!)
posted by mippy
on Jan 4, 2009 -
13 comments
