Is Crochet an Affordable Hobby? The short answer: yes. At least, it’s as affordable as you want it to be. Your budget is (almost) irrelevant; you can spend as little, or as much, as you want to. You won’t need to invest much money when you get started with crochet. You can buy a quality crochet hook for under $5.00. Yarns and threads are available at a variety of price ranges....

This Jewel Box quilt and quilt block pattern is suitable for quilters of all skill levels, and beginners should be able to construct the quilt with ease. The following instructions explain how to make either individual Jewel Box quilt blocks (step 2), or sew a 70" x 90" Jewel Box quilt (step 3). Jewel Box Quilt Block Pattern Fabrics for One Quilt Block Change fabrics to suit your needs. Black:...

For those crafty parents, Michaels also has low-cost craft classes for adults. Michaels Kids Club Craft Classes The free and low-cost craft classes at Michaels ranges from projects like gifts, holiday decorations, cards, totes, flower arrangements and food decorating. No matter what your child is interested in, they’re sure to find a Michaels’ Kids Club class that interests them. These classes range from free to $5 with most of the classes being $2 each....

Although this technique is known by the name Mishima, it is misleading. Mishima is a city in Japan. Although many Japanese pottery techniques are called after their city of origin or the family name of the first practitioners (i.e. raku), this is not the case with Mishima. What we know as Mishima was first produced in Korea during the Koryo Period (CE 935–1392) and was further developed in the 12th and 13th-century Korean celadons....

In geometry, a radius is the line segment from the center of a circle to any point on the circle itself. Smaller circles have shorter radii (the plural of radius is radii). The image at the left shows curved sections of Kato Unitrack in four different radii. Kato actually offers curved sections in seven radii, one smaller and two larger than the radius shown here. The term arc refers to the segment of a circle and is expressed in degrees....

Popularity of OLX can be easily gauged from the fact that the traffic to its website increased by a whopping 55 times in last two years. Sale offers of used goods like mobiles, computers, electronics, home goods and vehicles comprise about 70% of the ads posted on the website. AND… 92% of these sellers are individuals! To make buying and selling things even more convenient, the company recently launched OLX Mobile App....

Printing on Both Sides Without Duplex Printer (e.g. Canon LBP 2900B) Canon LBP 2900B printer is not a duplex printer so it can not flip the paper on it’s own. In case you have printer that is not capable of automatically flipping the paper, in most of the printer models you’re given the option of printing on both the sides; but you’ll have to do manual flipping. The best way to print on both the sides is to first print the odd numbered pages of your document....

Border Differences Mitered quilt borders are attached to each other with a 45-degree diagonal seam where the borders meet at corners of the quilt, like the example above left.Straight quilt borders butt into each other where they meet at quilt corners, like the example above right. Mitered borders require that you use setting in techniques to sew them to the quilt, but the setting in isn’t difficult once you’ve experimented with the method....

Cactus Flower Pattern from Cross-Stitch-Pattern.net Spring-Time Cacti Cross-Stitch Pattern from Maker’s Society Catcus Pattern from Ringcat Cactus Pup Pattern from Monica at My Cross Stitch.com Cactus Card Patterns from Cross-Stitching.com Modern Cactus Pattern from Helene Workshop Succulent Cactus Trio Pattern from Galaborn Patterns Succulent Cross Stitch Pattern from GentleFeather Can’t Touch This Pattern from Andwabisabi

How to Play Suicide Chess In suicide chess, your pieces will move and capture just as they do in a regular chess game. However, there is one critical rule that drastically changes how the game is played: if a capture is available to you, then you must capture one of your opponent’s pieces. It is often the case that you’ll have the option to capture more than one of your opponent’s pieces; in that case, you can choose to capture any piece you like....

Read on for six ways you can utilize black light testing and check out the “Black Light Book” published by “Antique & Collectors Reproduction News” to learn even more. A good repair job might not be readily visible without assistance but will become obvious under a black light since glue used in repairs will fluoresce. Modern paints will glow under the black light as well, so you can also detect touch-ups, repaints, and embellishments with ultraviolet light....

Flow lines that occur during the coin striking process cause the cartwheel effect by reflecting the light off the surface of the coin. The effect is somewhat fragile and will disappear due to circulation or if the coin is cleaned. Coin collectors also refer to this as “mint luster.” More recently, The United States Mint began using a special treatment on the coin dies. This gives more of a matte finish to the coin instead of the cartwheel effect....

Like every other basic stitch, trebles can be combined with other stitches to make interesting stitch patterns. They can be used in a variety of different ways and worked into many different configurations, including rows, squares, circles, triangles, and other shapes. In this tutorial, you’ll first learn how to work a treble crochet stitch. Then you’ll also learn how to work treble crochet in rows. Note that this is a right-handed crochet pattern....

But what is touch-typing? Well, it means to type on keyboard using all your fingers without looking at the keys. It is the best method of efficient typing to ensure that you are not using the ‘hunt and peck’ method on a touch-type keyboard. Accuracy and speed are key elements to master, when you are learning to type, and it comes with practice. Most of the typing software focus on correct typing over speed....

Do you have any chairs in your home that have seen better days but are structurally sound? Why not give them a second life by improving their appearance with pretty decoupage paper cutouts and paint. You will have rejuvenated furniture in almost no time, that you will be proud to display in your home. The following examples of decoupaged chairs are lovely sources of inspirational ideas that will help you achieve beautiful results with your next chair renovation project....

Different types of blogs require a different style of writing. If you’re writing about news, your style would that be of reporting; if you’re writing tutorials and instructional posts (e.g. I do on TechWelkin) your style needs to be more interactive. If you write posts on fiction work, you would do better with more creative style. Therefore, it depends on the kind of blog. If you’re serious about blogging, language style is one of the most critical cog in your success....

To be included on this list, a two-letter or three-letter word had to be made up of all vowels. It’s a short list, but it can come in handy, especially near the end of the game. These words are also excellent to know when you are making multiple words on a play, as you can play them in a corner or when forming a word on top of another word....