Kim is a professional craft teacher and designer specializing in textile based crafts like crochet,
Kim Kotary is a freelance designer and teacher specializing textile based crafts like crochet, knitting and sewing. She has countless publication credits including four booklets on crochet. She has been professional craft instructor since 2007 with weekly classes in senior centers throughout NYC. She also provides private and group lessons in the NYC area and via webcam.
01/12/2020
Winged Insects Made From Old Computer Circuit Boards And Electronics Our society discards a lot of electronics, as they are rendered obsolete almost every day, but artists like Julie Alice Chappell, based in the UK, are there to pick up the pieces and turn them into beautiful recycled art. In her case, she turns old computer circuit boards and electronics into beauti...
01/12/2020
Here’s How to Turn Your Baby’s Clothes Into Keepsake “Memory Bears” The teddy bear you see below started out as a onesie. It was made out of a crafting project called memory bear, where your baby’s onesie can be turned into a cuddle buddy once they’ve outgrown that cute outfit. It’s a great keepsake for moms especially if it holds a special memory, like a hosp...
01/08/2020
Extensive Resource of Free Historical Costume Patterns Online Cosplayer Artemisia Moltabocca has pulled together an extensive resource of free sewing patterns for historical costumes, all available online.
10/24/2019
I never thought about checking my plastic measuring tapes for accuracy. Someone told me many years ago that they stretch, I just never thought about checking them.
09/08/2019
This bears repeating... DO NOT TOUCH MY FABRIC SCISSORS!✂️
08/06/2019
Micro Knitter Althea Crome Gets an Incredible 80 Stitches To The Inch Her work is so impossibly small … how she does it … it’s almost unimaginable. See more of Althea Crome’s incredible work at altheacrome.com. This Bloomington, Indiana-based …
07/19/2019
6,000-year-old fabric reveals Peruvians were dyeing textiles with indigo long before Egyptians Researchers have uncovered the earliest known use of indigo dye, discovered in an unusually well-preserved 6,000-year-old Andean cotton fabric from Peru, predating indigo use in Egypt by 1500 years.
06/28/2019
86-Year-Old Makes 300 Caps for Premature Babies After Teaching Himself How to Knit "I've never knitted in my life," said Ed Moseley, 86, but he knew he wanted to volunteer his time in order to help.