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Happy New Year - Next Up Valentine's Day
I wish you all a Happy New Year 2015 and am looking forward to making some pretty things now for Valentine's Day. I last posted on Thanksgiving, and since then there's been nothing but celebr…
Happy Thanksgiving Sale
Wishing you all a Very Happy Thanksgiving! As we prepare our family feast, I wanted to take a minute to thank all of you for following KnittingGuruDesigns and to give you all a Black Friday / Cyber M…
New Crochet Pattern at KnittingGuru
Brand New This Week - the 'Round the Loop Crochet Scarf Pattern . It's super-fast and easy to crochet. The stitches used are chain, slip stitch and half double crochet. You'll be surpris…
Variety is the Spice of Life
I like a lot of variety in life. When I knit or crochet something, I try to design it so that it may be worn many ways. My customers feel the same way I do and appreciate the versatility of their Kni…
Vintage Knitting & Crochet Patterns: Buyer Beware!
When it comes to buying vintage knitting and crochet patterns, the Latin phrase Caveat Emptor - let the buyer beware - needs to be taken seriously. I'm in love with vintage knitting and crochet p…
Floral Forms Inspire Fiber Art Jewelry
Flowers are an inspiring source for many kinds of crocheted and knitted jewelry. If you pick a simple floral shape, you can interpret it in thread crochet using perle cotton or embroidery floss. Stit…
How to Crochet Floral Jewelry
My flower garden is a great joy and one of the major sources of inspiration for my fiber art jewelry as well as my knitted and crocheted accessories. Each of my pieces begins with an image. In the ca…
DIY Fred Astaire Scarf Pattern
I'm really happy to say that after being included in dozens of treasuries on Etsy, my Fred Astaire Scarf is now going to a new home! I've always been a big fan of the debonaire Mr. Astaire an…
The Search for a Great Sunhat Ends Here!
I don't know about you, but my search for a really great sunhat has been futile. Either they look good but don't keep enough sun off, or they're great looking but I don't want to lug …
Starfish DIY
This is an update on my crocheted starfish. I had a lot of requests so I put together a pattern that includes the starfish brooch, earrings and ring. You can find it at Etsy and also at Craftsy Th…
Starfish Are a Preview of Summer Beaches
My Turquoise Starfish Brooch and Ring are a call to the sea. I've loved poetry from my earliest years, most likely because of the music of its rhythms. I definitely remember learning this poem by…
Is it the Zeitgeist?
I took a walk along 5th Avenue in NYC last week and noticed that there was a lot of orange to be seen in the department stores and boutiques. Now NYC is a basically black town. Everyone wears black a…
