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Knitting socks with circular needles
April 2024

Knitting socks with circular needles

Since the individual needles have always slipped away, I knit my socks with a circular needle for a long time. When I'm at the hoe, I divide the stitches, and put one half on a second circular...

Easy to repair underwired bra
April 2024

Easy to repair underwired bra

Which woman does not know this when the stirrup (wire) in the bra stings through the fabric and then into the skin. This problem can be solved, the underwire bra can be easily repaired. Almost...

Hanger alternative for jackets
April 2024

Hanger alternative for jackets

Embarrassing and annoying, you want to hang up your jacket in the restaurant, but there's nothing wrong with the jacket. Either the hanger is too narrow and murky, or it has never been one. I've...

Mesh stopper when knitting
April 2024

Mesh stopper when knitting

Safety pins as stitch stoppers when knitting: I'm knitting a jacket right now ... big knitting piece, thick needles ... just not paying any attention and the stitches are already sliding off the...

New apartment - curtains too small?
April 2024

New apartment - curtains too small?

The new apartment is great, the big windows too - but the curtains! They fit so well with the furniture and actually there is no money for new curtains ... what to do? You can extend or extend...

Make fringes on the scarf
April 2024

Make fringes on the scarf

I have ordered great pure silk online, to make a scarf in finally the length I want and also width to sew. That alone is not a problem, but instead of a hem, I wanted to make fringes on both...

Sew narrow seam without plugging
April 2024

Sew narrow seam without plugging

On a purchased scarf I have seen that this was not framed by overlock, but with a narrow sewing machine hem. What they manage, I thought, can you ... Here are my "hard-sewn" tips for designing such...

Make a nice blanket out of old duvet covers
April 2024

Make a nice blanket out of old duvet covers

I had left bedding and made a large bedspread, which can also be used as underlay instead of bed sheet. It works like this: I have bought fleece on ebay (very cheap) (100 gr / m² Diolenwatte padded...

Tablet bag made yourself
April 2024

Tablet bag made yourself

I had this bag ready in about 3 hours, because a protection for a new tablet was urgently needed. I came up with the idea of ​​simply knitting a bag. (Cotton yarn in different colors I had enough at...

Mobile phone case homemade
April 2024

Mobile phone case homemade

When I finished the tablet bag, a colorful ball of yarn remained and since I was too tedious to disassemble into single colors, I wondered what I could do with it. I thought, and a cell phone case...