Nest decorating has a lovely tutorial for making this very versatile and easy fabric flower.
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May 2009
I love this totally seamless cable knit (ravelry pattern download in three languages) sweater.
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I love this baby sweater – am quite attracted to yellow sweaters even though I don’t ever wear yellow – but its so cheerful in gloomy weather.
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Like Kathreen from whipup I missed a week of writing the mixtape mashup. The week prior I had spent in Brisbane working my mixtape magic at the Stitches & Craft show. Talking to people for 8 hours a day takes it’s toll on you after 5 days! Anyhow I felt like a week was needed to recharge my batteries and now here I am back and ready to play!
One of my customers at the show actually found out about mixtape via whip up – so it’s nice to know someone is reading!
CRAFT/ART:
Madeline Stamer who designed Issue 8′s cover is having an exhibition in Bendigo - read more about it here.
I now have an intern! can you believe it?!! Her name is Manderlee and part of her job is to look around this wonderful online craft community and report back her cool findings. Her first photographs for mixtape will appear in Issue 10 in an article on the Threadden girls.
For this week my two top finds are:
PedroSprout – Michelle’s little baby shoes are KILLERS
madebymaisie – Catherine’s dolls are beautifully made and I love that they all have their own names/personalities
MUSIC:
mixtape is now an official business subscriber to my most favorite station here in Melbourne town RRR.
The family and I spent Friday afternoon in Basement Disc’s seeing The Wagons play live, have you heard them? Well their song “Love me like I love you” is hands down the song of the year for me.
BOOKS:
I’m currently reading the charismatic Russell Brand’s – My Booky Wook
I’ve also pre-ordered Soulemamas and Amy Carols upcoming crafty numbers.
I popped into the AMAZING Metropolis Books yesterday and they are down to ONE copy left of mixtapezine 8, YAY!!
I also purchased a children’s book called, “Rosie’s Walk” for a birthday present. Rosie’s Walk was one of MY favourites as a kid, do you remember it?
DON’T FORGET ….. Issue 9 is available for pre-sale NOW
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Oops missed a week – sorry to those who have missed the weekly newsletter – what with 9 year old slumber birthday parties, soccer season beginning and school starting back for second term – I have been rather snowed under with family stuff. But I do always find time for whipping up something here at whipup.
During the past few weeks I have been putting together a series on craft blog tips: better craft blogging : craft blog etiquette : better craft blog writing : how to build an audience for your craft blog and photography tips for your craft blog and the latest in the series is blog design, essential blogging extras and tutorial writing.
You might notice a very slight difference in design here at whipup too – we have widened the screen to allow bigger images and a slightly more spacious appearance – putting the search bar up in the header will also help those wanting to search the whipup archives for all our past stories. Please tell me what you think?
Slightly knitting obsessed lately and have been featuring quite a few patterns available in the blogosphere: I love the fog sweater - such a great name too: Shalom yoke cardigan is super cute: how to design your own custom sweater is going to come in handy: felted knit dog leash is utterly adorable: I am sure you will agree that the truffle sweater is very stylish: mrs Darcy cardigan is oh so adorable: did you know that 2009 is the year for natural fibres?: love this chunky knit warm hat: the bike helmet earmuffs are so much fun – and sure to be essential wearing in winter: Mr Peen was too too funny: I love woolly wormwood‘s hat patterns: and did you see the beard hat?: knitted jam jar cosy: knit up some knickers: and the nerdy bender dishcloth and the perfect sweater.
For those more inclined toward crochet – we have some goodies for your too: molly flowers: crochet orangutan is amazing: hyperbolic crochet patterns: om shanti yoga bag: hyperbolic dish cloth:
And we have also covered quite a bit in the patchwork and quilting area: Dear baby jane quilt is amazing – with tutorials for each block: embroidered mini quilt: t-shirt quilt: sting quilt paper piecing:
For those who love sewing and fabric here are some great tutes for you: stitch up a love bug (great mothers day gift): design your own children’s clothes: free motion machine embroidery: gorgeous flower ruffle collar to add a little pizazz to your outfit: scrubby buddy - perfect for bathtime: I love these refashioned toddler pants made from business shirt sleeves: fabric on demand website: vintage embroidery patterns: lollychops embroidery patterns: more refashioning with a shirt to blouse tutorial: smocking tutorial: fabric corsage (great mothers day gift): spring bag: more spring with this lovely spring top: love the refashioned t-shirt baby gown: mendocino summer frock:
Book reviews have included some great books including: the boy magician: it girl knits - teen knitting: the new book from mason-dixon knitting – outside the lines: stash buster quilts was a pleasant surprise:
And paper lovers watch out: I love the hammered nature prints (great mothers day idea): kusudama paper flowers (another great mothers day idea).
Thanks for reading and happy crafting weekend!
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The Perfect Sweater pattern from Mandy Moore & Ann Shayne [image from SusanS] pattern is a free ravelry pdf download.
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Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too
Comforting and funny and real and honest, gorgeous and clever and wise. An excellent sequel to the Mason-Dixon first knitting book, this one carries on where that one left off – including silly and whimsical among serious and clever. Check out the Ravelry page for this book to get an idea of all the patterns – most of them seem to be in Ravelry with quite a few images from knitters who have made up the patterns.
With coats, sweaters, socks and dresses there is a lot to choose from and you may well want to knit them all. With the help of Kay and Ann’s usual wit and excellent explanations – try the Kiki Mariko – fair isle rug which is knit as a tube then steeked, and cut after felting. Or the Liberty rug, also knit as a tube and then steeked.The Golightly Gloves are fun – a new version of Blu baby pants is included in the book – but you can get the original pattern on knitty.com
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a delightful yoke cardigan – download the pattern from the sidebar of Meghan’s blog – involving the senses.
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