Happy 2015! Do you feel like now we’re officially in the future? I do. 2015. Damn. Anyway, I have some things to share with you and tell you about! I’ll start with the older news… In late December, the 4 days after Christmas, I released a free pattern via social media. (Here it is onContinue reading “2015: Year of Making plans and other year-end/beginning stuff”
Category Archives: quick project
Quick project tutorial: Record yarn bowls!
If you follow me on instagram, you may remember my excitement when I hit upon this idea many months ago: (caption: Made a broken record into a yarn bowl! It’s not perfect, but I think this concept could be awesome with some practice!) A photo posted by Lee Meredith (@leethalknits) on Apr 4, 2014 atContinue reading “Quick project tutorial: Record yarn bowls!”
New pattern set: Twist on a Classic mitts + What a Twist hat!
New bulky, QUICK patterns, just in time for last-minute holiday knitting! This is technically one new pattern, plus one pattern re-release, but they are available together as a new matching set. Twist on a Classic (ravelry link) is a new pattern for fingerless mitts – they are fun and speedy to make, they are cozy inContinue reading “New pattern set: Twist on a Classic mitts + What a Twist hat!”
New (free!) pattern: Superduper in Knitty!
Have you seen the new Knitty yet? That’s me on the cover! Whoa!! Very exciting! My pattern is pretty bonkers, but only because of the yarn, which I feel like shouldn’t even be called “yarn”… it needs some other name… It’s The BagSmith Big Stitch Merino, and it knits up on size US 36 (20mm)Continue reading “New (free!) pattern: Superduper in Knitty!”
Ten minute no-sew recycled t-shirt bag!
Tutorial time! I got a gig teaching a recycled t-shirt project at the library a few months ago, with a request for a recycled tee bag – the only bags I’d made from tees in the past had required sturdy sewing, and I didn’t want hand-sewing to be the only thing holding the bottom closedContinue reading “Ten minute no-sew recycled t-shirt bag!”
Dry Erase Magnets tutorial, plus other magnet ideas!
Look what I made yesterday! I had this brainstorm about making dry erase magnets back when I was making magnet projects for the May club, but I was just going to try it with white paper, for a plain white background… then I saw this tutorial via Craft: and thought of using images for theContinue reading “Dry Erase Magnets tutorial, plus other magnet ideas!”
5 Years Together and a fun+quick Card Project!
Exactly 5 years ago today, I met up with an old college radio acquaintance at a coffee shop in Costa Mesa for a non-date that ended up lasting 6 hours. And the rest is history! These are some oooold old old shots of us, mostly from our first few months together in 2005. February isContinue reading “5 Years Together and a fun+quick Card Project!”
Craft a Silly Tote Bag!
Last minute gift idea! I made this grocery bag for a gift for my brother last year – quick, fun, and recycled! Yay! How-to: Find a tote bag to reuse (I thrifted this one at Value Village), and an old t-shirt with a fun/funny image. Cut the tee image out a few inches smaller thanContinue reading “Craft a Silly Tote Bag!”
quicky gift idea – before and after photo
this is a gift i gave my parents a couple years ago, pre- do stuff!, and when i saw it here at the house i thought it would be a good project to share. i’m sure i saw the idea somewhere else, but i don’t know where. you could either make it in a photoContinue reading “quicky gift idea – before and after photo”
mom’s applique birthday card
my mom collects elephant things, and her birthday was friday, and my gift to her was not elephant related, so i wanted to make a card that was. i had just read jenny’s how-to for using an iron-on applique method on 3-ring binders, so i tried the concept out on the card and it totallyContinue reading “mom’s applique birthday card”
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