St. Patrick’s Day is coming up - it’s next Wednesday! If you’re planning an Irish-themed meal, this recipe for Irish Soda Bread with Fennel & Cinnamon on Everybody Likes Sandwiches looks quite nice.
Growing up, ours was a pretty standard (but delicious!) St. Paddy’s Day meal: Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes… I don’t even remember having soda bread. What do you eat on St. Patrick’s? Anything interesting?
I was vegan for six years, and have only recently adopted the occasional poultry or fish into my diet, so I’m loving Instructables’ easy vegan recipes and vegan dessert recipes roundups. I know what’s on the menu tonight!
The 2010 Crochet Awards need your vote now.
Here’s the link
The Flamies are in their second year of recognizing talent in the crochet world. In the spirit of my Adopt a Designer, please take a second to vote for your favorite designers, teachers, yarn companies, and projects from this year. You can read more about the projects nominated over at the CLF blog. I’m running off now to vote for my favs.
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Instructables user quasiben writes:
Persistence of Vision (POV) is the illusion that an image continues to persist even though the image has changed. In essence, we are taking advantage of the limitations of the brain-eye processing time. With a camera we can tune our eye for a longer exposure. The Lilypad POV (row of LEDs) is a fun toy to build with minimal programming and electronic needs.
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If you’re planning on tackling painting a room anytime in the near future, be sure to check out this handy and thorough list of tips and advice from Nicole of Making it Lovely. She shares her years of experience and covers everything from prep through clean up.
I’ve seen a few variations on ways to mount completed embroidery, and I’m liking this latest tutorial from Maximum Rabbit Designs. I particularly appreciate her use of double-sided tape, and find her technique for padding the embroidery really interesting. [via Mr. X-Stitch]
Spring Cleaning sale in the Maker Shed!
Spring is in the air! The snow is melting, the birds are chirping, and we’re looking to do some cleaning in our warehouse. What does that mean for you? Well, for starters, we have a bunch of products on sale in the Maker Shed. We’ll even throw in free shipping on orders over $125! Just use the code “CLEARME” at checkout.
I first noticed our next designer while flipping through Interweave Crochet. I usually can spot a designer’s project pretty quickly, since we all seem to have our own unique style. When I first spotted, Julia’s work, she made me stop in my tracks. Her designs are fantastic. They are always incredibly wearable and make you take a double take to say, “Wow, is that crochet?”. I just love that feeling as a fellow designer, when another person’s work makes me stop and smile. It just makes my day. And that’s what Julia Vaconsin’s work does.
Julia Vaconsin: www.juliavaconsin.com
Mother of three (and just like me recent arrival this past fall- so super busy with baby), crafter (her sewing skills make me jealous, b/c her brood let her have time to sew), and fantastic designer.
If you have picked up an Interweave Crochet in the last year, you have probably seen her designs gracing the cover. In fact she’s had as many covers as most veteran designers have their whole career. And she just started working with Interweave in 2008. You can see what I mean by her Fall 2008 yoke sweater. Now doesn’t that look store bought knit. Incredible.
Julia is great because she has patterns published over the pond and here in the states. She has patterns for sale and patterns for free. The mittens are for sale on her website.
My only wish is that there was a time warp machine, and that she could have it. So that she would have time to write a book, because I know for sure the crochet world would adore it.
Vickie Howell has two great projects to knit for St. Patrick’s Day! You can make this quick and easy mitered knit shamrocks or dress up your favorite little one in these shamrock booties.
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