Technique Video: How to Loom Knit a Shawlette

The Michael's of Mexico, Fantasias Miguel, just posted this great instructional video about how to loom knit a shawlette! While the yarn does not match my personal taste, the technique could be applied to any yarn.
 This shawl would be gorgeous, for example, in Lion Brand Amazing.


I am glad they posted this, because I have a loom that is made for this specific technique and I was wondering how to use it! :D Bonus! It's in Spanish (but the visuals are great), so you can either read along, have a Spanish lesson, or just follow what the lady in the video is doing.  :D

Technique: Tubular #Knitting on 2 Straight Needles

My jaw was on the floor after seeing this video.  Very cool technique for knitting in a tube but using only 2 straight needles and a combination of knits and passes.  Thanks, Josune, for passing this along!

It's in Spanish, but the hand shots are very good, so give it a try even if you don't understand Spanish.

For the Love of #Crochet

So you get to tweeting, pinning, tumbling, facebooking, and raveling, and all of the sudden it's almost like you don't have a blog anymore!  This is not good, folks.  It should not be so.

Life is great in Mexico City. There's much going on - far too much to enumerate here.  What has inspired me to write today is a pretty cool magazine I picked up on a recent trip to Florida.  The name of the magazine is Love of Crochet, Spring 2012 (Ravelry Link) and it is published by Creative Crafts Group, LLC.  I bought it at a local chain bookstore for $6.99.