Free knit headband pattern and matching fingerless gloves: Stratus Fingerless Mitts and Stratus Headband. This small collection began...

Part 4 of my crafting journey, how I began to publish patterns. In part 1 I told how I started knitting In part 2 I added to my skills crocheting In part 3 I mentioned how I joined a community of crafters. In this part, I’m telling how I began designing. First of all, if I can call myself a designer and a pattern writer, it doesn’t mean that I stopped using patterns from other people. I’m a crafter, and if I see something cute, original, or interesting that I need or want,

Part 3 of my crafting journey, moving to US. You can read the 1st part here and the 2nd part here . In 2006 my husband got an offer to work at the University of Washington in Seattle. After debating staying in Germany or moving to the US we jump to an opportunity and choose Seattle for our next journey. It was, again, a huge change in our lives. Changing countries isn’t an easy process, and changing it without knowing (at least for me) the language is even harder. So, of cou

Part 2 of my crafting journey, moving to Germany. You can read the 1st part here . In 2002 my life turns in such a way, that I moved to Germany, the city Kaiserslautern, which is located in the southwest of the country in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was a dramatic change, everything was different, the space (from a big city to a small), the people, the culture, the language. I knew German, but not in a perfect way, and one thing you thought that you know words, othe

A little intro on how my crafting carrier has begun. Hi, I'm Natalia Pleshko. The knit and crochet pattern designer behind Natalia_yarncraft. I was born in Russia (if we go exactly, in USSR). My home town is Chelyabinsk, a pretty big city in South Ural Mountains region. I was born and raised in a time when the main word about any possible goods that you may need in your life was ‘deficit’. Many times, it wasn’t possible just to go to the store and for example, buy clothing. A