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I've wanted to try hand embroidery for so long, but while cross stitch is fairly foolproof with its grid-based approach, embroidery is much more artistic...which terrifies me!

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What happens when you give your inner child the fine motor skills of a fully grown adult, the equivalent of a few weeks pocket money, and total control over the Halloween decorations?

Let's find out.

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When my new favourite cruise vlogging channel put out a towel folding tutorial, I was naturally straight in there. Turns out making towel animals is harder than it looks though!

Huge thanks to @FraserAtSea for permission to use clips from his video, you can find the full thing and follow along yourselves at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gyGHMxBk0M

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Variegated floss can look confusing, but it's actually easy to get some really cool effects. In this video we'll look at some different methods for cross stitching with variegated thread, using DMC Coloris as an example.

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Making my own resin needle minders from scratch, right from design to 3d printing, making moulds and casting the resin!

Previous resin needle minder experiment: https://youtu.be/FGsFm_erNoE

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Everything you need to know about crochet for beginners, including essential crochet supplies and choosing yarn, getting started, common crochet stitches, turning chains and bonus tips and techniques to make learning your new hobby as pain-free as possible!

Latest in a series of "quick" start beginner craft guides, so let me know which craft you’d like me to cover next! Because I am a total enabler, and I'm not even sorry.

00:00 Intro & what to expect 01:35 Basic crochet Supplies 02:17 Choosing yarn 03:30 US vs UK crochet terms 04:44 Anatomy of a crochet stitch / where to put your hook 06:21 How to make a slipknot 07:36 How to crochet a chain 11:36 Single crochet (and how to work into your starting chain) 20:03 How to do a double crochet 24:15 How to do a treble crochet 26:09 Memorising crochet stitches 26:53 Turning chains 29:28 How to do a half double crochet 31:22 How to crochet the slip stitch 33:52 Fastening off 38:06 Next steps

Not quite ready to dive in yourself? You can live vicariously through Dave's newbie attempts instead: https://makertube.net/w/fgPJXyzK1qV4tXpqJfwWxT

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