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Different resources for my activites
If a link is broken, give the Wayback Machine a try.
Larger resources:
- Antique Patterns, a site with a ton of free patterns of many different crafts.
- I have a physical copy of the Complete Guide to Needlework by Reader's Digest. It can be found on the Internet Archive. It can be found fairly inexpensively secondhand. I very much recommend it. It is as complete a guide as one can get in a single book.
- For knitting, Vogue Knitting is an excellent resource. It is unfortunately not on the Internet Archive but I found it inexpensive secondhand online as well.
- Various knitting and crochet dictionaries are nice for looking at stitches and deciding what to use. I have one by Mon Tricot. I haven't used this one but it seems pretty useful
- I have the book Stitchery and Needlelace from Threads Magazine, it is an interesting read but I think the instructional information inside can be found elsewhere. If you find it well within your budget or within your local library I think it is worth a read.
- If you have any interest in embroidery I heavily recommend www.needlenthread.com's video tutorials. You will find clear demonstrations of basic stitches as well as more complicated, textural ones. This site basically taught me embroidery. There is also the Royal School of Needlework Stitchbank. It's really extensive, with a large variety of stitches. There's also both photo and video tutorials.
- Animated Knots by Grog is very helpful, there's both videos and step-by-step photo tutorials.
- Donna Kallner's video tutorials on what she calls looping are really useful for the craft. (You might also find it under the term needlebinding or Nålebinding, though the latter usually means something more specific). It's far slower than crochet or knitting, but its pretty freeing in a way, requiring only yarn and a needle. It's not difficult to learn and it has applications in embroidery and needlelace, as well as being interesting for it's own sake.
- There's a book about fabric structure classification by the textile anthropologist Irene Emery on the Internet Archive called The Primary Structures of Fabrics : an Illustrated Classification. To my understanding, it is directed towards anthropologists. I have not encountered a similiar work in scale or goal.
Smaller resources, individual pages, ect.: