Tips & Hints
Crochenit
Crochet
- Stitch abbreviations
- Gauge
- Hook sizes: General
- Hook sizes: Aluminum
- Hook sizes: Steel
- Tips for using hooks
- Understanding symbols
Cross-Stitch
- General information
- Needles
- Hoops & scissors
- Threads
- Fabrics
- Mounting Aida
- Framing
- Working from graphs
- Getting started
Knitting
- Abbreviations
- Metric conversion charts and standard equivalents
- Yarns
- Needles
- Basic Stitches
- Following patterns
- How to "Work in pattern"
- Seams
- Gauge
- Inconsistent gauge
- Tight cast-on edge
- To knit duplicate pieces
- Need a smooth edge?
- Lose your place in the pattern?
- Where did I begin?
- Keep your place in written color changes
- Feel like gauge swatches are a wasted effort?
- Too many loose ends?
- Pin it together
- Hide the ends
- Add a new skein of yarn
- Placing unraveled stitches back on needles
- Thoughtful gifts
Quilting & Sewing
- Making Templates
- Hand-Applique
- Machine Applique
- Batting
- Cutting
- Fabrics
- Foundation Piecing
- Piecing
- Templates
- Thread
- Tools and Equipment
- Making Continuous Bias Binding
- Final Touches
- Finishing the Edges
- Finishing the Top
- Getting Ready to Quilt
- Quilting
- Machine-Piecing
- Hand-Quilting
- Paper-Piecing
- Knotting Tips
Plastic Canvas
- Plastic canvas yarn: Yards to ounces conversion
- Needloft discontinued yarn substitutions
- Marking and cutting canvas
- Starting to stitch
- Stitching your project
- Selecting supplies
- Background Stitches
- Specialty Stitches
- Finishing Stitches
- Embroidery Stitches