Category Archives: Crafts

how to make ‘plarn’

If you would like to help the Mats for Uganda effort but you can’t crochet, you can make plarn! It’s quick and easy – great to do while watching a movie or some TV. Here is a quick tutorial that I put together: If viewing in a RSS reader, you may have to visit the [...]

Vday Card

Lots going on around here. Most notably, Jude is now a Mother’s Day Out participant! Hooray, I now have a set time every week to get work done! He has been asking me to go to ‘school’ for quite some time and I found the most perfect MDO program. He loves it. This was him [...]

learning to knit

Knitting is a skill I have been wanting to hone for quite some time. I actually tried to knit long before I started to crochet, but for whatever reason, crochet stuck and knitting didn’t. A couple Christmas’s ago, I got the Knitting Answer Book and it has sat on the shelf with a couple other [...]

granny hex

Sounds like a spell a granny would cast, doesn’t it? Anyways. I fell in love with this little pin and couldn’t get the idea of having a beautiful crocheted granny hex blanket in my house. Something about the hex shape just pulled me in. Nothing against the squares or anything. . . Now that pin [...]

Munchkin Hat and Baby Loafers

Sometimes, I see baby things and I just have to make them. I saw this little munchkin hat on ravelry and I had to make it for a friend of mine that is having a little boy. It’s so impractical but I love it so much. It would be a perfect newborn picture hat! I’m [...]

word of the year 2012

If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you’ll know that each year I try and pick a word that I can reflect on throughout the year. In 2010, my word was trust. It ended up being a difficult year for me in that area but nonetheless, I appreciated getting to reflect on what trust [...]

Divine Hat

Sometimes you end up making things out of necessity! I realized that after packing for Taos, I did not have any beanies. At one point in my life, I had several but somehow they have all been misplaced! This was not acceptable for such a cold climate, so I joined Ravelry and found the Divine Hat crochet [...]