It’s beginning to look like Christmas in our household! I waited until the last minute (of course) to figure out what to do for an Advent calendar. Last year we used one my mother had picked up that contained 25 different ornaments. This year though with Little Chick getting older, I wanted to make sure […]
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WIP Friday – working on hats
Sometimes I think I’m nuts. Little Chick had decided she wanted to be Ariel the mermaid for Halloween this year. At first, I was just going to try and buy a costume. Then I thought about using a teal tutu my mother made recently as the basis for a homemade costume. My idea needed some […]
FO Friday – June and July weather
How did it ever get to be the middle of October already? Seems like just yesterday it was July! I’ve decided that given my limited crafting time, I really can only pick one – maybe two knit or crochet-a-longs to participate in each month. Any more than that just becomes stressful and this is supposed […]
Socks in progress
Sadly, I don’t have a finished project to show off this Friday. I’ve been busy knitting – mostly on the “Little Pumpkins” Socks I talked about last week. You can sort of see the pumpkin shapes running down the length of the socks, but they’re not as evident with a multi-colored yarn such as I’m […]
FO Friday – one lonely block
Maybe I should have saved my Charlotte shirt for today because I don’t have much to share now. I snuck one Underground Crafter Sampler Mystery square in before the end of the month. Almost two weeks ago she released square #20 so I still have 5 more squares to catch up, and a new one will be […]
FO Friday – preemie mock cable hat
We were rather busy last weekend due to our trip to Norskedalen and then Sunday with our little one’s first day of Sunday School. By the time we settled down, I was exhausted. This week seems to have flown by too so I only managed to finish one project. It’s a mock cable hat I […]
FO Friday – bobble bag and fall projects
I was afraid I wouldn’t have anything to show this week. I feel like all I’ve done is “play” – start projects, dislike them, rip them out again. Case in point – I’m trying to design a shopping bag with a harvest theme. Naturally I don’t make it easy on myself and the concept I […]
FO Friday – Snowdrop Dress
I don’t get it. I know it’s fall and the hours of daylight are diminishing, but it seems in general there are fewer spare hours left in the day. I just don’t seem to be finishing projects as easily or as fast as I used to. I did manage to finish this beauty recently. I […]
FO Friday – Christmas in July
I know it’s the end of August, but I never talked about a crochet-a-long (CAL) I participated in at the end of July. I don’t like participating in mystery-a-longs, especially when I have to pay for a pattern because you never know what you’ll be making. This one didn’t even give a clue – it just […]
FO Friday – failures and new projects
Technically the only thing I’ve finished is this Underground Crafter mystery square. And I’m still three square behind – thanks to a new release this last Wednesday. I really began to hate this square. I could have made three in the time it took me to make this one. Not the pattern writer’s fault. My […]