Author: WPInitiator

There are many ways to join a new ball of yarn when you run out of yarn. In this DROPS video we show how to make a more or less invisible join by making a double knot. We use two different colors to make it easier to follow.

With the new yarn go under the working yarn, go over both strands and through the loop and tighten. Then repeat by taking the working yarn under the new yarn, over both strands, through loop and tighten. Then pull each yarn to tighten the double knot in the center, pull tight to secure. Cut both tails as close as possible. Keep working on your project.

This video has NO SOUND – you must read the explanations to be able to follow this video properly.

You can find this video in many more languages, as well as search within all DROPS knitting and crochet videos here: http://www.garnstudio.com/video.php?lang=en
Find thousands of free knitting and crochet patterns here: www.garnstudio.com

In a world overpopulated with stray and abandoned animals, we all play a part in protecting and caring for our fellow creatures of God. For 23 years, Lynea and her crew have been running the United States’ largest no-cage, no-kill, lifetime cat sanctuary and adoption center.

Their mission is to place rescued cats and kittens into loving, permanent homes; to provide a safe, happy and healthy home for unwanted cats and kittens in a unique, no-cage facility; to prevent pet overpopulation through spaying and neutering; and to educate the public about responsible pet ownership.

Since its founding 23 years ago, The Cat House on the Kings has saved over 24,000 cats and 7,000 dogs (not counting the 40,000 animals we have spayed and neutered!) and currently cares for more than 700 cats and kittens, a dozen or so dogs and a handful of goats, who earn their keep as lawnmowers!

The Cat House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, receives no government or public funding, and relies entirely on donations from the public to carry out its mission.

Learn how to contribute at www.cathouseonthekings.com .

Photograph of the bench by Jess Lessard (www.facebook.com/jesslessardphotography)

In this DROPS video we show how to knit a purl (P) stitch.

We are knitting purl stitches according to the English method. This makes exactly the same stitch, but we do this holding the working yarn in our right hand. Lay the yarn around the needle with the right hand.

This video has NO SOUND – you must read the pattern to be able to follow this video properly. You’ll find a pattern using this technique by clicking here: http://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=7967&cid=19

You can find this video in many more languages, as well as search within all DROPS knitting and crochet videos here: http://www.garnstudio.com/video.php?lang=en
Find thousands of free knitting and crochet patterns here: www.garnstudio.com

In this DROPS video we show how to knit a purl (P) stitch the Norwegian way.

This is an old traditional way to purl, commonly used in Norway, but also used in other Scandinavian countries.

This video has NO SOUND – you must read the pattern to be able to follow this video properly. You’ll find a pattern using this technique by clicking here: http://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=7961&cid=19

You can find this video in many more languages, as well as search within all DROPS knitting and crochet videos here: http://www.garnstudio.com/video.php?lang=en
Find thousands of free knitting and crochet patterns here: www.garnstudio.com

Infinity’ is an immersive environment project by Refik Anadol. Project is an integral part of artist’s ongoing ‘Temporary Immersive Environment Experiments’ which is a research on audio/visual installations by using the state called immersion which is the state of consciousness where an immersant’s awareness of physical self is transformed by being surrounded in an engrossing environment; often artificial, creating a perception of presence in a non-physical world.

In this project ‘infinity’ chosen as a concept,a radical effort to deconstruct the framework of this illusory space and transgress the normal boundaries of the viewing experience to set out to transform the conventional flat cinema projection screen into a three dimensional kinetic and architectonic space of visualisation by using contemporary algorithms.

Light is the major element in the experiment, used to blur and interconnect the boundaries between the two realms actual/fictional and physical/virtual. It signifies the threshold between the simulacrum space created by the projection technology, and the physical space where the viewer stands. The experiments will discuss the inherent spatial qualities of immersive virtual environments and their effect on the embodied person. Through the presented framework, the experiments intends to question the relativity of perception and how it informs the apprehension of our surroundings. Rather than approaching the medium as a means of escape into some disembodied techno-utopian fantasy, projects sees itself as a means of return, i.e. facilitating a temporary release from our habitual perceptions and culturally biased assumptions about being in the world, to enable us, however momentarily, to perceive ourselves and the world around us freshly.

Room size: 4M x 4M x 4M
Medium: Four channel Audio/Visual Installation running on custom software. (Original experience: 14 Minutes, 7 algorithms.)

Exhibitied at Artnivo’s ’40 Meters 4 Walls 8 Cubes’ in collaboration with Istanbul Biennial at Zorlu Performing Art Center. November, 2015.

Thanks to: Sebnem Alp Akin, Alkan Eraltan, Kian Khiaban, Efsun Erkilic, Raman K. Mustafa, Zorlu Perfming Arts Center and Artnivo Teams.

For more information;
http://www.refikanadol.com/works/infinity-room/

In this DROPS video we show how to crochet bobbles (also known as popcorn stitch).

Alt 1: Crochet 4 dc (UK tr) (or what pattern calls for) in 1 stitch, but wait with last pulling through on each st until there are 5 sts on hook. Now pull through all 5 sts (i.e. the 4 dc are crochet tog to 1 dc). Continue with 1 st in each st until next bobble.

Alt 2 (larger): Crochet 4 dc (UK tr) (or what pattern calls for) in 1 stitch. Take the hook out from the loop on last st, stick hook through 1st st and then back through loop on 4th st, pick up yarn and pull through both sts. Continue with 1 st in each st until next bobble.

This video has NO SOUND – you must read the pattern to be able to follow this video properly. You’ll find a pattern using this technique by clicking here: http://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=5063&cid=19

You can find this video in many more languages, as well as search within all DROPS knitting and crochet videos here: http://www.garnstudio.com/video.php?lang=en
Find thousands of free knitting and crochet patterns here: www.garnstudio.com

In this DROPS video we show how to pick up a dropped stitch.

Did you drop a stitch and did it run, then this is how you easy can fix it with the help of a crochet hook.

This video has NO SOUND

You can find this video in many more languages, as well as search within all DROPS knitting and crochet videos here: http://www.garnstudio.com/video.php?lang=en
Find thousands of free knitting and crochet patterns here: www.garnstudio.com

In this DROPS video we show how you can increase with a loop (aka M1 = make one). This increase will make a little hole.

In the video we show twice how you make a loop on right needle with the working thread away from you. You can make the increased stitch lean in different directions.
If you want the inc stitch to lean to the left you make a loop on right needle with the working thread towards you.

This video has NO SOUND – you must read the pattern to be able to follow this video properly. You’ll find a pattern using this technique by clicking here: http://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=1110&cid=19

You can find this video in many more languages, as well as search within all DROPS knitting and crochet videos here: http://www.garnstudio.com/video.php?lang=en
Find thousands of free knitting and crochet patterns here: www.garnstudio.com

This animated short from two RNs and student midwives Margaret Ladner and Aimee Clark gives a brief run down of how to keep vaginas happy. The pair cover all the basics and beyond.