Fibercrafts

Projects to Try

• Li-Mei's knitted moebius strip
• Peaches the Mouse! sew a little mouse with fabric scraps!

Tips & Techniques

• The War & Peace two-in-one sock knitting trick
• The loop start method for starting a thread when cross stitching.
• Spinning & fiber prep/dyeing tutorial list!
• Garment construction: Sweaters

Resources

• Kumihimo pattern generators! One here and one here. Both of these look to also have generators for other types of friendship bracelets, as well as hundreds of patterns.
• Tatreez, Palestinian embroidery
• a few basic embroidery stitches
• list of resources for mending
• FreeSewing, an open source software to generate custom-tailored sewing patterns
• how to sew neckline facings onto a garment, a guide written by an SCA artisan
• How to process plant fibers for cordage, from the Sustainable Living Project

Patterns

Skirts

• Basic gathered skirt with elastic waist pattern, which allegedly will use only 1 yard of fabric
• Same skirt but it's floor-length
• Similar skirt but with a flat front waistband and an inner lining, pattern here
• Ruffle hem wrap skirt pattern
• Simple wrap skirt pattern with bias tape edging
• Box pleat skirt pattern, including a good method for making pleats!
• Half-circle skirt with elastic waist pattern
• Circle skirt with elastic waist pattern (with video)
• Quarter-circle skirt with zipper close pattern, including good notes on how to add the zipper
• Simple maxi skirt pattern

Stores

Fabric thrift stores

• Swanson's Fabrics
• Paper City Fabrics, where everything is $4 a yard
• Lucky Deluxe Fabrics