For those of you who may have fol­lowed my cro­chet blog, (which was recently merged with this one), you know my plight about learn­ing to knit. Well, Flower Picker has been pre­tend­ing to knit with two pen­cils… no yarn — she’s just rub­bing two pen­cils together at the tips. :-{ So, I decided that would be our […]

This week was a 1/2 day school week.  We have a two-day assem­bly this week­end, and I always like to sew new things for the girls and I to wear.  I made myself a skirt and shirt (that’s a first for me!) and I made a skirt and dress for Face.  Flower Picker was in […]

I wanted to show off the dress-up dresses I made for the girls last month. Noth­ing fancy, but they don’t seem to care!

Well, for starters, I’ve added a new cat­e­gory — Sewing! Yup, yup, this cro­cheter sews, too!  Well, let me rephrase — I have owned a sewing machine for 17 years.  In that 17 years, the most sewing I’ve done to date, was cloth dia­pers.  I sewed dia­pers for 3 years.  I never had proper instruction, […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’m Knit­ting! I’m actu­ally mak­ing some­thing that will amount to some­thing larger than a dish­cloth, but with more shape than a scarf!! The first ques­tion is… what? I found this cute pat­tern, it looked easy enough — didn’t require cir­cu­lar nee­dles, and I have the size it DOES call for.  I’ve been want­ing to make a […]

Yay! I’ve just fin­ished up my old­est DD’s tank top. DH says it’s too wide, so I see some alter­ing in my future, but she loves it! She loves the color — which is awe­some, since she is the one that picked it out. She loves how it feels against her skin (Another Yay!) I’ll be starting […]

I’ve been work­ing on a few things at once lately. I’ve started my Banana Bay top, which I’m lov­ing! I’m also work­ing on a cute tank top for my old­est DD. I’ve used the pat­tern before, but this time, I’m using Knit Picks Crayon yarn, and it’s YUMM-O soft! Even DD stated, “Hey, it’s soft, […]