Archive for 'Crafts'

Makin’ Luck

Five plain green tees, $1/each at Walmart.

Five swatches of $1 fabric.

An instant plan for five lucky cousins.

An easy craft to squeeze into one nap time.

I LOVE when that happens.

Little Miss Earhart

Here we go again. Will I ever tire of knitting great baby hats? Not a chance! And of course, this is another fabulous free pattern you should know about.

I’m not sure which was more enjoyable…knitting it, or seeing her in it. I started this quite a while ago and then abandoned ship because I couldn’t [...]

Baby Earflap Hat

And just like that, I’m in love with knitting again. All it takes is a good baby hat pattern, as it turns out.

This one is from the book Stewart Tabori & Chang Books – Knitting For Baby
Now I know I said I would never buy a pattern until I’ve gone pro, but I bought this [...]

Hadley’s Valentine Tomten Sweater

Good grief, I am NEVER knitting another sweater as long as I live. This thing took weeks. My patience cannot handle such cruel and unusual punishment. I mean, there was a good chance she could have outgrown the darn thing before I even finished.

The only tiny mistake I made was NEGLECTING TO KNIT, OH, 24 [...]

The JLBs Craft: Color Collage

Lately I’ve been working on getting Bastien to recognize a color other than pink. Any color. I do not know where the pink thing comes from and it is cute. BUT. Last time I checked, there was a whole world of colors left to discover.

So by chance we brought home this great book from the [...]

Knitting Updates

I made a couple of hats for the holidays that I am mildly proud of. I feel compelled to show them off because they were not miserable failures (quite unlike the fingerless mitts I am currently working on for my sister).
So there was this one, for my sister-in-law Marie…

From a free pattern that claims to [...]