When.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: knitted jumper primark youtube crochet tutorial by crochet by genna paul

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Fair Isle (technique) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Isle_(technique)

    Fair Isle (/fɛəraɪ̯l/) is a traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is named after Fair Isle, one of the Shetland Islands. Fair Isle knitting gained considerable popularity when the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) wore Fair Isle jumpers in public in 1921. Traditional Fair Isle patterns have ...

  3. Sweater curse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweater_curse

    The "sweater curse" or "curse of the love sweater" is a term used by knitters and crocheters to describe the belief that if a knitter or crocheter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, it will lead to the recipient breaking up with the knitter. [1] In an alternative formulation, the relationship will end before the sweater is even ...

  4. Yarn bombing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing

    The Knit Knot Tree in Yellow Springs, Ohio Yarn bombing for a town festival in Romsey, Hampshire, England. Yarn bombing (or yarnbombing) is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk.

  5. Penguin sweater - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_sweater

    Washing a victim of oil spills. Penguin sweaters, also known as penguin jumpers, [1] are sweaters knitted for penguins that have been caught in oil slicks. [2] When an oil spill affects penguins they have in the past been sometimes dressed in knitted sweaters, supposedly to stop them from poisoning themselves by ingesting the oil during preening, and to keep them warm, since the spilled oil ...

  6. Amigurumi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amigurumi

    Amigurumi (Japanese: 編みぐるみ, lit. "crocheted or knitted stuffed toy") is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small, stuffed yarn creatures. The word is a compound of the Japanese words 編み ami, meaning "crocheted or knitted", and 包み kurumi, literally "wrapping", as in 縫い包み nuigurumi "(sewn) stuffed doll". [1]

  7. World Wide Knit in Public Day - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Knit_in_Public_Day

    World Wide Knit in Public Day was started in 2005 by Danielle Landes [1] and takes place on the second Saturday of June each year. It began as a way for knitters to come together and enjoy each other's company. Knit in Public Day is the largest knitter run event in the world. Each local event is put together by a volunteer or a group of ...

  8. Crochet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crochet

    Crochet (English: / k r oʊ ˈ ʃ eɪ /; [1] French: [2]) is a process of creating textiles by using a crochet hook to interlock loops of yarn, thread, or strands of other materials. [3] The name is derived from the French term crochet, which means 'hook'. [4]

  9. Primark - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primark

    According to an article about Primark in The Economist, "For many shoppers, Primark has an irresistible offer: trendy clothes at astonishingly low prices. The result is a new and even faster kind of fast fashion, which encourages consumers to buy heaps of items, discard them after a few wears and then come back for another batch of new outfits."