February 6, 2012 – 8:00 am
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 [...]
January 25, 2012 – 3:27 pm
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 [...]
January 11, 2012 – 8:00 am
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 [...]
January 9, 2012 – 8:00 am
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 [...]
January 4, 2012 – 8:00 am
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 [...]
December 6, 2011 – 8:00 am
Leave it to pinterest to inspire me to get some Christmas decorations going. I found this free holiday subway art, printed it at Costco (so cheap!) and stuck it in a 1/2 price frame from hobby lobby. Slowly but surely, our modern Christmas stash is growing. Something else we typically lack on our door is [...]
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Tagged Christmas, dahlia, felt, felt dahlia, felt flowers, felt rosette, free, fringe flower, rosette, subway art, yarn wreath
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December 5, 2011 – 4:02 pm
Love these little weekend getaways. Nothing recharges me the way hanging out, relaxing and sewing seems to. This is the third time we have been able to get away and craft this year (read about the first and second times). We revisited the Wimberly Quilt Ranch once more and Amanda from My Sewcial Hour wrote [...]
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