It’s a skill! I was watch­ing an old episode of Knit & Cro­chet Today and there was an inter­view with Nikki Epstein.  She made the com­ment, “Knit­ting isn’t a hobby; it’s a skill!” That rang bells for me.  It’s true.  Cro­chet­ing (and knit­ting) are skills.  You have to really work to hone those skills.  The more you […]

Loi­ter­ing online –that’s what I call “surf­ing”.  Surf­ing requires some sort of skill or strat­egy — loi­ter­ing is clearly just hangin out some­where with no real pur­pose, and that’s how I inter­net. Any­way, as I was loi­ter­ing, I stum­bled onto this: Make your own bag han­dles Now, as a cro­cheter, I have found, and fell […]

to make a dress? 3! One to send beau­ti­ful fab­ric One to teach how to read and fol­low a sewing pat­tern and one to fol­low instruc­tion, and sew the dress! Here’s the prod­uct of the 3 sis­ters’ labor: I am ever so thank­ful to Martha, my fab­ric sup­plier, and Elaine, my sewing Yoda, for their help in allowing […]

I had signed up for this project back in April, and thought I’d missed the chance to par­tic­i­pate this year, but my seeds arrived today! Enclosed were some instruc­tions and a data sheet to keep up with how many bees our sun­flow­ers attract. This is so great!  I have just decided to estab­lish a small […]

A friend of mine, who works at our local library, is read­ing the book, Stone Soup, to a group of small chil­dren. She said she’d love to have props on hand as she read the story, so my son and I cro­cheted her some veg­eta­bles for her Stone Soup. We made: tomato peas green beans radish […]