Nessa M.

Durham, NC, United States

I love to crochet, tunisian crochet, loom knit, using a circular knitting machine and shop for yarn.

28 Feb 12:39

" Amigurumi + crochet = cute overload.

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25 Feb 00:46

Great e-book Amigurmi and crochet e-book bundle. The top tier of the bundle is $18 for 23 ebooks, it has two lower priced tiers which include less books if your budget is lower. I have used this site many times and you can pick a range of what you pay for the bundle and how much goes to certain charities... the different levels have different minimums.  Some really great books in there I've been meaning to get and I already have a hard copy of the Stitch dictionary.  If you have an Amazon kindle account to read, you can set it up to have some of the ebooks e-mailed to your specific kindle account. (you can find that address within your Amazon account.)  https://www.humblebundle.com/books/amigurumi-and-crochet-from-open-road-media-books?hmb_source=humble_home&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_4_layout_index_4_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_amigurumiandcrochetfromopenroadmedia_bookbundle&fbclid=IwAR2gVKpmU1s0_yq6xO05r9dcSto9GzHiAStMh_vk4rTH4Nz_CqALe7wDG6o

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23 Feb 11:02

This is the book I referenced on this weeks Crafter Gathering last Wednesday night.  I recommend looking for used copies online if the Amazon one is too expensive. I haven't made any of the patterns out of it but I have wanted to.  It calls blankets rugs, and one of the blanket patters are a group of tunisian in the round squares - this uses a double ended hook to do tunisian in the round.  I've made a few squares from another pattern and a cowl in tunisian in the round. I'm still learning it.  

Crochet Techniques (Milner Craft Series) Paperback – March 4, 2008

by Renate Kirkpatrick

 https://www.amazon.com/Crochet-Techniques-Milner-Renate-Kirkpatrick/dp/186351371X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1W5UL5VP8HVF5&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zOgAh51e8eXKzSwsMMJs0PbeWr31dfNpj5WNkxbMuX3AsiB2sHOXL3IdNO4zMceApJZl9jmabq5MmT5OUpKcs-JKOOi3dsEik9Jhtjh0TXIOkPKouKZJ4kp00OqAtC-1._6yQ0TW-x8WU07gE_QelpDBD9KGjqlrhfzof6jDLEj0&dib_tag=se&keywords=crochet+techniques+by+renate+kirkpatrick&qid=1708707479&sprefix=%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-1

21 Feb 01:52

A kitchen towel topper... that holds kitchen towels.  I made two of them for the holidays a snowman one and a gnome and gave them as gifts.  Baskets work for the kitchen too.

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16 Feb 23:59

Very cute!

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16 Feb 23:59

This is great, thank you so much :)

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You're welcome. I haven't tried the hooks yet but I'm glad they help.

07 Feb 19:57

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07 Feb 19:46

This is the kit on Amazon which I mentioned that has ergonomic handles for the thin small steel hooks. This set has the hooks sized (0.5mm - 2.7mm) Tulip seems to have a set too but they are pricey, clover has one but they don't go down so small. They also have other sets of these ergonomic steel hooks with or without cases too on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BCPY72NB/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_10?smid=A8XDZQ03DWTEL&th=1

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Thank you :). You're welcome.  I thought it would be nice to show it with the different colors and striping.  This stitch looks really nice with self striping yarn with short color changes too, like Red heart super saver stripes.

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