Fact: I hate giving gift cards. Granted, I don't necessarily dislike receiving gift cards since it's still a gift, but giving a gift card tends to make me feel like a cop-out. Giving a gift card in a fun holder like this owl pouch or this snowman gift hard holder...
Have you ever heard of c2c? It's a fairly new phenomenon for me personally, but I love how I can make crochet squares with this beautiful texture, and have the entire graphical world open to me. There's been lots of ideas floating through my head, but as I...
Last year around this time, I shared my first baby shoe pattern - my Double Strapped Mary Janes. It was admittedly a slightly confusing pattern, both for myself and my readers. I've also gotten requests to make different sizes. With M's feet getting bigger every day,...
I crocheted a shoe. It was a very adorable little shoe, but it seemed a bit plain. I thought about flowers, but there's more to a little girl's life than flowers. I thought about buttons, but then someone would be worried about buttons being a choking hazard. I...
Sorry this has taken so long! Here's the striped fish that many of you saw when I shared the shell fish scrubbie pattern. I don't have a lot of in-progress photos in this post, but there's step by step photos in the Invisible Stripes post and photos for creating the...
You might have seen a glimpse of my two-toned granny squares in a recent post where I shared my granny square blocking station. Now I get to share what I made with all those squares – a granny square chevron afghan! This is a baby-blanket sized project made with 36...
On our last date night, Drew and I walked around the "downtown" of the town we're moving to this fall, you know, to get a feel for our neighborhood. We found this little doodads store that had a bunch of, well, doodads, and all sorts of vintage-y, charming things. I'm...
A long time ago, I think sometime last year, a friend of mine sent me a photo and asked if I could make her a cupcake pincushion that could sit atop one of those mason jar sewing kits. After much thought and much procrastination, here's what I think is a great gift...
Here's a fun situation you probably don't want to be in every day. Commit to a project and then get so caught up in life that you forget you've got commitments that need to be honored. Yikes! Well, good thing Tamara is awesome and reminded me that I'm crocheting for...
I had this project done last year, would you believe it? But I never got around to posting it...until now. It's been so long that I can barely understand my notes, so bear with me on this one, and feel free to correct me if you make it, so others can benefit. Let's...