Catchup Works in Progress
What are you making today? Bring it on over and we can share the fun!
Class! - Beginning Spinning on the Spinning Wheel
Join me at the Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum for an introduction to yarn spinning class. sign up here to join the fun!
You’ll learn the following:
Basics of fiber, spinning wheel overview, drafting and spinning, plying, setting the twist. If there is time, I’ll teach you how to chain ply!
Bring a box lunch and plenty of water to drink. I hope to see you there!
Fiber Arts Fiesta
This is the second year that the Workshop will be at the Vista Fiber Arts Fiesta! Come visit us! Gina will be teaching knitting and John will be there too! Stop by the booth and say hello. There will be items for sale!
Class! - Beginning Spinning on the Spinning Wheel
Join me at the Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum for an introduction to yarn spinning class. sign up here to join the fun!
You’ll learn the following:
Basics of fiber, spinning wheel overview, drafting and spinning, plying, setting the twist. If there is time, I’ll teach you how to chain ply!
Bring a box lunch and plenty of water to drink. I hope to see you there!
Class! - Beginning Spinning on the Spinning Wheel
Join me at the Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum for an introduction to yarn spinning class. sign up here to join the fun!
You’ll learn the following:
Basics of fiber, spinning wheel overview, drafting and spinning, plying, setting the twist. If there is time, I’ll teach you how to chain ply!
Bring a box lunch and plenty of water to drink. I hope to see you there!
What came first?
It’s Spring! or close to it. I think. I don’t know, it’s still February when I am posting this. Whenever you are reading this, on the 20th of March, we are knitting eggs. Yes, the week before last we knit chickens which in this case, we can say for certain that the chicken came first.
Small Chicken
Head on over to theknittingtreela.com and pickup the latest Emotional Support chicken pattern! The small chicken is fast and friendly. It’s a favorite knit
Knit Daffodils
Daffodils are my favorite. From the depiction of them in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland to the bunches of them that spring up each year in Julian, CA, I just want to smell them. and pet them, and marvel at their natural perfection. So what makes more sense but to knit myself a bunch in case mine don’t bloom this year? Here is the pattern I will be using: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/daffodils-6
Hearts Re-do
Since I missed the last opportunity to knit hearts with you, I’m going to try again. So grab your favorite fiber arts heart pattern and let’s go!
Catchup!
Its the end of the month and a great time to catch up on some works in progress! What are you making today?
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Paper roses
I love making paper roses! They are so easy and provide a wonderful visual. You will need paper (not too thin, and not card stock. I use book pages from an encyclopedia that is WAY out of date) paints (diluted acrylics or watercolors) if you want colorful flowers or your paper isn’t pre-colorfuled. (that’s not even a word) Hot glue, and scissors.
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Heart Stuffie
I promised a couple of months ago that we would knit hearts, and here we are! It’s getting close to Valentine’s day and even though I don’t really celebrate, I still like to make heart shaped items! For this knit, you will need double pointed needles, yarn, and stuffing. Oh, and a yarn needle. This is a heart that is safe to give away!
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Live Stream - We are making hats! Pt 2
Week 2 of hat knitting! Did you get ahead? Did I? No worries, there’s plenty of crafting to go around!
For my hat, I chose the My Baker’s Hat by Emily Russell on Ravelry. This is a free pattern, but you have the opportunity to support Em on Ko-Fi. Her info will also be in the blog round up
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Hats. They are like a hug for your head pt 1
I’m going to let you pick your favorite hat pattern to knit along! As of the scheduling of this live, I just don’t know which, of the many hats I love to knit, will be my choice for the knit along. This will be a two-parter since I don’t think I can knit w whole hat in an hour. Bring your hat making supplies, and let’s craft together!
For my hat, I chose the My Baker’s Hat by Emily Russell on Ravelry. This is a free pattern, but you have the opportunity to support Em on Ko-Fi. Her infp will also be in the blog round up
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Catchup
Big sigh. I don’t know about you, but the winter holiday season always feels hectic and the end of the year zips right past. Today. let’s take a breath and work on a project that perhaps got set aside while we were in a flurry of holiday crafting!
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Live Stream - Tiny sweaters
An excellent way to use up sock yarn, these tiny sweaters are so sweet, and fit really nicely on fashion dolls of the 11 1/2 inch variety. I have not tried them on a different doll! This is what I think of when people ask me if I have ever knit a sweater. The answer is yes. tiny, tiny sweaters. They work up fast, and since we are just 6 days away from winter holiday madness and eating 7-11 hotdogs for dinner if you didn’t make better plans (what? is it just me? everything was closed.) You can play around with gauge on these, to get the look you want, but I doubt you will be able to size them up for your favorite toddler. I have a different pattern for that.
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Crafty Catchup
I’m updating the topic of tonight’s live because, well, I think we need som catchup time more than we need another ornament. It’s still a great pattern, but I’m looking at my desk and I’m thinking, you’ve got some catching up to do!
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Felt Stars
We will be embellishing felt star ornaments this week, so bring your precut stars (or hearts or shape of your dreams) and we will lightly embroider and hand sew them together. It’s been awhile since we made a felt craft and these make really nice gift dangles, ornaments, host(ess) gifts, whatever you decide you want to do. Let’s hang out and craft together!
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Live Stream - The Knit Pickle
It’s that time of year, and I meant to do this earlier in the season, but here we are! Today we are knitting pickles. We will talk about the origins of the Christmas Pickle and how this project is celebrated here in the workshop.
You will need: Green yarn and double pointed needles in a size appropriate for your yarn. The following items are optional: beads (you will need a flexible beading needle if you decide to add beads) eyes and other face parts.
You will need to know: knitting in the round, short rows, placing beads.
This project is very silly and delightful and I can’t wait to knit along with you! The pattern I use is here, but of course you can pick the one you like the best. I just want to craft with you!
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WIP - Pause to catch up!
Whew! that was a lot of crafting for Halloween. Let’s take a moment to take a breath and complete some incomplete projects!
5 pm to 6 pm Pacific
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Dio de los Muertos - flowers!
Lets make flowers to celebrate the Day of the Dead
Traditionally, marigolds are used to decorate for this holiday, but these can be difficult to obtain and keep long term. For my Offrenda, I like to make my flowers out of tissue paper or yarn. I’ll show tou how to do both!
You will need orange and yellow yarn and/or tissue paper, and green pipe cleaners (chenille stems) and scissors for this craft!
5pm to 6pm pacific
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Spooky ATCs!
Lets paper craft! Grab your spooky ephemera and we can make ATCs and collages together!
5 pm to 6pm pacific
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BOO! A(nother) Ghost! New type of project! - Paper Clay!
To continue our spooky decoration fun. tonight we are making paper clay ghosts as seen in this quick tutorial~ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4J75Eh2WpY8 you will need:
Air dry clay, something to use as a mold (she uses spice jars and a ping pong ball. I’m going to use whatever I find laying around in my crafty wonderland) battery operated tea lights, and something to decorate your ghosts when they are dry, unless you want to leave them plain, which is totally okay too. You will also need something with which to poke out their eyes and mouth!
5 pm to 6 pm Pacific
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Spinning Class!
Have you ever wanted to learn to spin yarn? I’ll be teaching beginning spinning on Sept 13 from 10 am to 4 pm at AGSEM! Details here: https://www.agsem.org/fiber-arts-classes
If spinning isn’t your jam, there are lots of other fiber classes to take on this date or take a look at the OTHER classes they have going at the museum!
The Spooky Knitting Continues, pumpkin
Ah, pumpkins. both cute and delicious. I just discovered Amanda Berry’s veggie collection and I am fascinated! I haven’t decided which pumpkin pattern I will leverage, but this one is knit either flat or in the round!
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pumpkin-2-3 or https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fall-pumpkin-decorations
Also, it’s adorable.
5 pm to 6 pm pacific. can’t wait to see you there!
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Let the Spooky knitting begin!!
I begin celebrating the spooky season on September 1 externally, though I will confess I am a spooky lady all year round. Join me as we kick off the spooky crafting season with GHOSTS!
I like to knit Gus and Augustus in glow in the dark yarn because, glow in the dark yarn, but you can make them in whatever you like. Just don’t cut up Delia’s designer sheets.
The pattern is here https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/gus--augustus-ghosts You will need to be able to knit in the round, and if you don’t know how, I’ll gladly help you!
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5 pm to 6 pm Pacific
WIP - Lets craft together!
I’m still cleaning up my Work in Progress Shelf, so lets craft and chat together! I currently have a hat, a shawl, and a few kittens that need help moving on to “completed”!
5:00 to 6:00 pm Pacific at twitch.com/geeceesworkshop
Can’t wait to see you there!
Beginners Knitting Lesson 2
Seed Stitch
Knitting classes continue!
You will need needles, (I recommend size 7 or 8. They can be borrowed, picked up at a thrift store, or at your favorite craft outlet. get shorter needles if you can) worsted weight yarn. Acrylic is fine! Choose something in your budget that doesn’t give you the icks to touch. You will know.
We will learn - ribbing, what it is, how to do it, and why you want to, seed stitch, and moss stitch
You will continue on your sample scarf!
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Beginners Knitting Lesson 1
Garter and Stockinette Stitch
Knitting classes are starting again!
You will need needles, (I recommend size 7 or 8. They can be borrowed, picked up at a thrift store, or at your favorite craft outlet. get shorter needles if you can) worsted weight yarn. Acrylic is fine! Choose something in your budget that doesn’t give you the icks to touch. You will know.
We will learn - Cast on (using the long tail method) Knit, and Purl. We will discuss stitch patterns Garter and Stockinette
When we are done, you will have started a sample scarf that we will build upon in subsequent lessons!
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Let's Organize! Embroidery Floss
Gina organizes her messy floss box to make it easier to use
LIVE! House Hippo continues!
Gina continues to sew her house hippo!
All times are “Pacific” time zone
Sew along! House Hippo
House hippo sew along! I don’t have a photo. they are very very elusive. also, I don’t feel like digging through my photos to find the last one I made.