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Little Owl small pouch

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How to use yarn leftovers

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Spring house cleaning may reveal  lot of  yarn ends. You may use them to crochet granny squares and assemble them to bright pillowcases. To make them look more professional you can choose pillowcase back color to be in shadows of your furniture. Just take a look at great variety of  colors clicking a link below. Now imagine what a beautiful pillowcase you can make instead of just throw out that yarn ends :) Sounds reasonable? Then go ahead and have a lot of inspiration! Pilowcase Backs with sewn-in hidden zipper They are made of the high quality upholstery fabric with overstitched borders. You can use even old sweaters :) Size - 15 3/4" x 15 3/4" (40 cm x 40 cm) 

Crochet with beads: Amber dress from Duplet 147 close-up

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by Svetlana Bekreneva Dress like this, made in complicated mixed crochet techniques, can not have common patterns.  This is a product of designer's experience, fantasy and skills. But you can always find schematic patterns of motives used for dresses like this in Duplet magazine. Duplet 147 crochet patterns magazine

How to do ribbon embroidery: French knot

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Bead embroidery technique: semi-cross stitches, monastery stitches

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This beautiful small heart is easy to make,  lot of my customers got this present from me some time ago.  Do you already embroider it? No? Let's start!  Here is step-by-step illustrated master-class how to embroider this small beauty :) Feed threat to needle using thread feeder.  Do not hold thread feeder like this: This is right way to hold thread feeder: Tie usual knot on the end of a thread. Use short thread for one operation, around 40 cm (15") to avoid thread twisting. Pick one bead by needle and start from corresponding mark on canvas. You may use a thread of one color for multicolored beads, it's not necessary to use a thread colored same as beads.  I'm using red thread because the main color of this picture is red.  This is semi-cross stitch chart. Very soon you will get the surface like this: This is how the back of canvas looks like. You will have a lot of knots :) Actually you may start to embroider from any convenient place at canvas. You may st...

Chrysanthemum dress close-up

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This gorgeous wedding gown made by Ukrainian designer Svetlana Bekreneva  was published in Duplet magazine 149 The dress is fantastic, elegant and delicate Designer has named the dress "Chrysanthemum" I was so charmed by this dress that decided to show you these close-ups to encourage your creativity! The dress has been made in free-form technique. You can find motifs for this dress in Duplet 133 pages 14-15  and Duplet 146 pages 10-11 Enjoy!