I can’t believe it’s already July AND I can’t believe how swamped Yarnivore is– but that’s a good thing! I just wrapped up my first crocheted sweater class (well, the first one that made! 4 awesome students, yeah!) this week and it was fun. Let’s just say we all learned alot about reading patterns and [...]

Although chances are you don’t go to bed at night wondering how my garden is doing, I thought I’d post an update anyway, if only to encourage some dirty fun in your backyard. To be honest, it’s been slow going. I had to throw out all of the zuchinni (supposedly the easiest thing to grow), [...]

I’ve been meaning to write this post since last week (whoops) but what can I say, I’ve been swatching away and following up on all of my post-show priorities. For those of you that don’t know, TNNA is The National NeedleArts Association trade show, is only open to industry professionals, and is not a cash [...]

Ok ladies (and gents): despite all of the trend reports identifying crochet as the hot thing in fashion, I still heard a lot of….outdated, shall we say, attitudes about crochet at TNNA. It’s not that I heard it over and over, it’s just that the few times I did hear it really irked me, because [...]

Last weekend I went to Columbus Ohio for The National Needle Arts Association trade show. Wow. Just wow. I had been thinking about going for a while, but was a little bit scared to spend the money, and afraid that I wouldn’t know anyone. Boy, was I wrong to have skipped any shows. Once I [...]

Lookie here, something is ready in my garden!

The radishes are among the only things that seem to be thriving. They’re pretty much coming out of the ground on their own so I pulled this one up just to see what was going on under there. Pretty, and tasty. I mean, WOW tasty. If you think [...]

As you may or may not know, in addition to all of my pattern designing and book writing, I also do a lot of freelance writing for Crochet Today. One of my favorite projects (and the one I’m procrastinating on at the moment) is gathering up products for their “We Love” page. I’m constantly on [...]

I’m excited to announce that three of my hat patterns are now available for just $1.99 a pop at KnitPicks.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what this means for the other places where my patterns are for sale, and have decided to leave the pricing (which is more than $1.99) the same. I [...]