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Welcome to the Hooked and Locked CAL 2018 (HAL CAL 2018) <Edit January 16 2019: The pattern is no longer available for free. You can buy it from my Ravelry shop (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/the-craftsteachers-ravelry-store). You can find the bonusweek pattern there also. The pictures for each row (see examples on this page here) are no longer available online. Please send an email to info@thecraftsteacher.com if you want to purchase these. > Welcome welcome welcome! Nice to see you here! I really hope you will enjoy it to join! For the ones who don’t know what CAL means: it stands for Crochet ALong, simultaneously crocheting on a projectRead More →

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Tadaaaa! It is coming! The Hooked and Locked CAL, or in short the HAL CAL. Today I’m officially announcing it. The HAL CAL learns you how to do the Interwoven or locking crochet technique. A technique that is not difficult at all, you will be able to master this very quickly! When does the CAL start and end The start is planned on September 20 2018. We will then start with the practice piece, and then I will publish a new part each week, so that the planned end date will be December 13. This way everyone, that wants to give this blanket as aRead More →

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Finishing loose ends. When you’ve already started with something new, your focus is usually with the new stuff, but if you want to end a previous project with a good feeling, you will have to finish these last ends. This is true for crafting projects, but also when you make video’s. And this was also the case for the video I released today 🙂 . You may have seen I’m busy with preparing a CAL, and that is so fun to do! An amazing lot of work, it really is, but so fun to do! But I told I would also do a video aboutRead More →

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Video number 4 in the series about filet crochet with a large mesh is published today. I wanted to have a more steep border for the V-shaped neckline of my vest. And the slanted decrease of 1 hole of the mesh over 1 row, as I showed you in the previous video, was not suitable for it. So I figured this out myself also, because I really couldn’t find it on the internet. And this is also very simple! You only have to remember to distribute the decrease over 2 rows. You probably won’t forget very quickly when you’ve done the first part of theRead More →

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Sorry guys! And girls 🙂  I planned to publish this last Saturday, but this Handwerkjuf/Craftsteacher is also a mum of 2 lovely daughters, and my eldest needed some help, and well, in that case the rest of the world just has to wait. And, although I’m not very superconsistent with it, I do try to keep the Sunday as a day of rest. For me this means going to church in the morning, listening to interesting speakers and singing for my God, and then the rest of the day for other activities.  Not that I’m not working on my crafts, that really is something thatRead More →

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Today the 2nd video in a series about filet crochet with a large mesh is published. This is the video in which I show you how to decrease at the start and at the end of a row. Especially the decrease at the end of a row will be one you will remember the best 😀  😀  😀 , but decreasing at the start of a row, without cutting off your yarn, is a little bit less obvious. Very simple also, by the way! Of course I was a little bit pigheaded, and didn’t use this decrease in my vest. I cut off the yarnRead More →

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Today is the day! The series of video’s about doing filet crochet with a mesh with large squares will be published these next days, starting today with how to crochet the base. In this series there will also be video’s how to do decreases, as well as straight up as slanted, in 2 different ways. The written tutorial is already finished entirely, so you can find that already by clicking here, but the accompanying video’s will be released these next days. I realized I totally forgot to think about doing increases, and that’s because I didn’t need that for the vest I was making. Ehm, yes,Read More →

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FYI: I’m using US terminology for naming the crochet stitches Regular filet crochet is usually done with openings that are made with 2 chain stitches and a double crochet. This is a tutorial about filet crochet with a large mesh, by using 3 chain stitches and a triple(!) crochet. It isn’t very much different than regular filet crochet of course, but I will also show you how to decrease. Especially the slanted decreases get attention, because I could not find them at all on the internet. It will probably be somewhere, but no way I could discover it. So I tried a couple of thingsRead More →

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Well, to be honest, I’m back home again. About 3 weeks ago I was on vacation at the south of France for 2 weeks at a beautiful resort: Chateau Cazalères at Daumazan sur Arize. So that’s why it has been a bit quiet here. And I don’t want to give it a loud shout out on the internet when leaving my home for some time, so I didn’t announce it beforehand. Hope you didn’t miss me too much 🙂 . I took ‘some’ crafting stuff along with me as you can see. Well, you should have seen our car, totally filled up 🙂 🙂 🙂Read More →