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  • 5 Essential Crochet Books to Own
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    5 Essential Crochet Books to Own

    Discover the perfect companions for your crochet journey with our curated list of 5 books that promise to elevate your yarn skills and spark creativity. Welcome, welcome, crochet enthusiast! Whether you're already a yarn wizard or just starting your crafting journey, these 5 crochet books are here to transform your skills and ignite your imagination. We’re about to dive into a world of patterns, projects, and techniques that will take your crochet game to new heights. Oh, and did we mention the abundance of irresistibly cute amigurumi awaiting you? Get ready for a yarn-filled adventure like never before!

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  • Essential Care: Storage and Washing of Handmade Pieces
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    Essential Care: Storage and Washing of Handmade Pieces

    Marie Castro, a renowned content creator specializing in crochet, has earned her place in the world of handicrafts with a unique focus on crochet, combining her passion for this technique with influences from fashion, music, and travel. To keep her precious handmade pieces in perfect condition, Marie shares some important storage and washing practices.

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  • A Guide to Tufting Guns and Choosing Your Perfect Match
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    A Guide to Tufting Guns and Choosing Your Perfect Match

    Dive into this quick guide to tufting guns and discover your ideal companion for projects that align with your creativity. In the captivating world of textile artistry, a tufting gun acts as a magic wand. Tufting, a craft where yarn or thread is pushed through a fabric base to create patterns or textures, becomes much easier and faster with this secret weapon. Picture it like this: the tufting gun does the heavy lifting by punching or pushing the yarn through the fabric, creating loops or cut piles on the surface. It's like a shortcut to bring our artistic ideas to life. Depending on the type of tufting gun, we can make different textures, patterns, and even change the height of the yarn on our masterpiece.

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  • Fashion Design Tutorial: Tips to Customize Your Sneakers
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    Fashion Design Tutorial: Tips to Customize Your Sneakers

    Learn the secrets to customizing your shoe laces, applying stencils, and protecting your design to make it last with Juan Pablo Bello (MYSNKRS Customs) Sneakers can be an ideal canvas on which to express your creativity. However, working on fabric can be a challenge, both when painting and when keeping it clean and protected. That's why Juan Pablo Bello, Art Director and founder of MYSNKRS Customs (@mysneakerscl), teaches us how to customize the laces of our shoes, apply and paint details, and protect our design so that we can wear them for longer. You can watch his tutorial here:

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  • Botanical Design Tutorial: How to Design Frames with Succulents
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    Botanical Design Tutorial: How to Design Frames with Succulents

    Discover the best ideas to design and compose a painting with succulents of different shapes, colors and shades with Compañía Botánica. Botanical design uses nature as an artistic tool: the succulents and their forms are converted into drawings and pigments, whose great variety and versatility can contribute to our creations. In this tutorial, Ceci from Compañía Botánica (@ciabotanica) gives us some design and composition ideas to take advantage of the succulents in our botanical design projects. You can see the video here:

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  • 8 Must-Know clay modeling techniques
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    8 Must-Know clay modeling techniques

    Explore 8 essential clay modeling techniques, from pinching to slip casting, perfect for artists of all levels. Discover the ideal method for your next project! Clay modeling techniques are diverse and provide artists with a range of possibilities for creating unique and expressive pieces. Here is a list of some common clay modeling techniques and a brief explanation of each:

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  • Free PDF: Plant and Color Guide
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    Free PDF: Plant and Color Guide

    Do you have an unremovable tomato sauce stain on your favorite white trousers? Don't be ashamed! Start by referring to your smudges as "artistic ecological dyeing" and send your haters to this here article to proof them all wrong once and for all! And if your tomato sauce splatter isn't too artful on it's own you can stain your clothes purposefully next time!

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  • Ceramic Tutorial: How to make a rock-shaped flower pot from clay
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    Ceramic Tutorial: How to make a rock-shaped flower pot from clay

    Learn this simple technique step by step to turn a ball of clay into a rocky shape, with Xènia Bas Xènia Bas (@xenia_bas) is a ceramic artist and co-founder of Bas, a ceramic workshop in Barcelona. She likes to think that a good flower pot not only houses and provides support to a plant, but also enhances its beauty. One of the simplest and most practical forms you can give to a flower pot with clay is a rock. As well as being easy to mould by hand, it gives a lovely finish and allows many variations, as Xènia will show us in this tutorial:

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  • Embroidery Tutorial: How to Create an Appliqué
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    Embroidery Tutorial: How to Create an Appliqué

    Learn to create appliqués from your embroidery with Ana María Restrepo and her textile design label Amarpo If you like to embroider, consider turning your pieces into appliqués. This process will give your pieces more uses by making it possible to transfer them to all kinds of surfaces and clothes. Ana María Restrepo (@anamaria_10), the brains behind the textile design brand Amarpo, shares her techniques and advice on opening up the possibilities for your embroidery pieces. Watch her tutorial here:

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  • Discover the art of weaving with tufting guns: course with Voador Tecelagem
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    Discover the art of weaving with tufting guns: course with Voador Tecelagem

    The Enchantment of Tapestry in a New Era The magic of carpets transcends epochs, geographies and cultures. It is wonderful how ancestral techniques resurface in modern products. And it is precisely this connection between the ancient and the contemporary that you will explore in the Voador Tecelagem course at Domestika, dedicated to the fascinating world of the tufting technique.

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  • Discovering the Art of Tapestry: Kilim, Knot Technique, and Tufting
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    Discovering the Art of Tapestry: Kilim, Knot Technique, and Tufting

    Tapestry is an ancient art form that has always been present in various cultures around the world. At Voador Tecelagem, we dedicate ourselves to perpetuating this tradition, adapting it to the comfort and aesthetics of the modern home. In this article, we will explore three fascinating tapestry techniques: Kilim, Knot Technique, and Tufting.

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  • The 23 best tutorials of this 2023 on Domestika
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    The 23 best tutorials of this 2023 on Domestika

    Are you short on tutorials? Do you need 23 to feel sane today? Are you really about to go through all of them, right now? I know… We are enabling your tutorial addiction with this article… I guess I can only hope you get some rest afterwards!

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  • Pop-ups and beyond: discovering the dimensions of art on paper
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    Pop-ups and beyond: discovering the dimensions of art on paper

    At first glance, paper seems like a simple material, but if we look beyond the surface, its possibilities are almost limitless. Paper is not only a canvas: it is a material, a motor, an inspiration and a dimension. In this fascinating realm of paper art, every fold, cut and assembly tells a different story. It is a place where imagination comes alive, and paper becomes the tool to explore worlds of infinite opportunity. Join me on this journey where we'll explore the various branches of paper art!

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  • How to make marbled paper
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    How to make marbled paper

    Have you ever wondered how they make the marbled paper drawings? We would like to share with you a detailed tutorial published in the blog May Designs that teaches us step by step and in our house this millenary art of design printed on paper that simulates the texture of marble.

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  • Crochet Tutorial: how to read a pattern
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    Crochet Tutorial: how to read a pattern

    Learn how to read the symbols on a crochet diagram and understand the pattern with Steel and Stitch The patterns and symbols on a crochet diagram can be intimidating to the beginner. However, they are much simpler than they appear. In this tutorial, Emma Friedlander-Collins, also known as Steel and Stitch (@steelandstitch), teaches us how to decipher a crochet diagram, reveals what each abbreviation and symbol means, and tells you how you can use this useful tool in your next design.

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  • Crochet Tutorial: how to calculate the stitches easily
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    Crochet Tutorial: how to calculate the stitches easily

    Discover this basic guide to knitting with the proportion formula and calculating points, with Santa Pazienzia One of the biggest difficulties we can face when we start a crochet project is how to calculate the stitches we need for our project. In the end, the correct calculation of the points will be what determines whether the item of clothing is symmetrical or whether the size is exact. Estefa González, better known as @santapazienzia, is a designer, crochet teacher and creator of the Santa Pazienzia website. This crochet master shares in this tutorial her technique for calculating points based on the proportion formula. Don't miss the video below!

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  • Embroidery Tutorial: the grid stitch
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    Embroidery Tutorial: the grid stitch

    Learn step by step how to illustrate with the grid stitch technique with Yolanda Andrés Yolanda Andrés (@yolandandres) grew up in a town surrounded by friends and family with the women in her life. But she hung up the thimble to dedicate herself to graphic design and advertising until in 2008, when her daughter was born prematurely, she began to accompany the long hours in the hospital with the thread and needle. So what she started as a way to abstract herself, stop counting hours and relax became her job. Now she is an artistic embroiderer who has worked for large brands and institutions such as Hermès, Museo Thyssen or Carolina Herrera. In this tutorial she teaches you how to make the grid stitch, one of the most interesting cross stitches. See the tutorial below:

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  • Weaving Tutorial: how to assemble the warp for a circular loom
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    Weaving Tutorial: how to assemble the warp for a circular loom

    Learn with Ancestral basic tips to keep in mind before starting to weave on a circular loom Weaving with a round base opens a world of possibilities to think about and compose tapestries and unique textile pieces, but to start it is important to create a solid base: the warp, a set of longitudinal threads placed under tension on a loom, will be the foundation on which to work. In this tutorial, Erika Pineda, textile artist and founder of Ancestral (@ancestral_co), a brand dedicated to the production of hand-woven decorative pieces, teaches us how to assemble a warp in two different ways: with and without a central tie. You can see the video here.

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