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Stretched wadding, hot glue strings, a spinning drill and a hairspray-and-cotton trick. Which one to use depends on whether the web needs to hang, stick or survive rain.
3 min read Beginner
A knitted leaf is a triangle worked twice — increase to the widest point, decrease back to a tip. Twenty-one rows, three stitches to start, and it works in any yarn you have.
4 min read Beginner
Fresh pumpkin is wetter and milder than the tinned kind, which changes every recipe it goes into. Roast it first, drain it properly, and the rest follows.
4 min read
Two complete patterns from one eleven-stitch leaf repeat — a straight scarf you can start tonight, and a top-down triangular shawl with a leaf border.
4 min read Intermediate
They come from the same animal. One is in use, the other has been abandoned and has collected dust. That is the whole distinction — plus one older meaning of the word almost nobody uses now.
4 min read
One eleven-stitch repeat, one right-side row to remember, and every wrong-side row purled. It makes columns of leaves — or, with four plain rows between, leaves scattered across the fabric.
4 min read Beginner
Spider silk is a protein, not a venom. What is in an old cobweb that can affect you is everything else it has caught — and for a small number of people, that matters.
3 min read
