Tiina’s own craft tutorials with text, photos, patterns and videos.
Macrame Angel Ornament – An Easy Christmas Decoration Christmas is getting closer, and there is still time to knot a little angel. This time I am making a macrame tree ornament with a wooden bead for the head, cord wings and a long fringed dress. A few knots, and the little angel starts to take…
A crocheted piece can be completely finished – every yarn end woven in and the final stitch secured – and still lie on the table like a pancake. That is when stiffening comes to the rescue. It gives a doily, decoration or other crocheted item its shape and helps the lace pattern stand out properly.…
Grandma Maimu got her knitting needles ready, gathered up her balls of yarn and decided it was time to start teaching knitting. Bim watched the whole enterprise with some suspicion. As far as he was concerned, balls of yarn had an entirely different purpose from knitting socks and jumpers. “Bim, leave that yarn alone! We’re…
In this video, I’ll show you step by step how to crochet the honeycomb stitch pattern. We’ll start with an even number of chain stitches. In the second row, we’ll work single crochet stitches, and in the third row, we’ll begin forming the honeycomb pattern using single crochet spike stitches. In the English subtitles, I…
Sometimes a project comes together quickly. Sometimes it does not. Crocheting the collar itself was not even the biggest undertaking. Making the tutorial video took far more time. Filming, editing, adding text, creating the intro and outro, choosing pictures… all those small steps the viewer normally never sees. But now both the collar and the…
Simpler than simple, but it takes a lot of time. 🧶 English subtitles are available! Click the CC button on the YouTube video to turn English subtitles on or off.
I’m writing this down while it is still fresh because I forget things terribly quickly. I really needed this pattern and the instructions were in Russian. I asked a Russian woman to translate them, but she only gasped and said she could not translate such specialised text into Estonian. So I copied bits from the…
I have quite a serious little obsession: if something is hand-knitted or crocheted, the buttons have to be handmade too. I hate fiddling about making buttons and, whenever possible, make things that do not need them, but… this time I had to. I took white yarn and wrapped it ten times around an ordinary pencil,…
