Between a last minute trip to North Dakota, a planned trip to Montana and an upcoming trip to Long Beach in January, I feel like I’ve been all over the map lately! I saw these fiber snowman in the window display at the Yarn Shop I once worked at in Bozeman–it was so nice to [...]

If you’re looking for a fun and easy pattern for last minute gifts, the folks at Simplicity have put together a whole collection of slippers that can be made using their slipper soles.

There are some really funny and clever patterns included, in both knit and crochet (Yay!) and they are all free. Unshaven in Winter [...]

I was thrilled to see the latest copy of Crochet Today! magazine–that’s my cowl design on the cover!

The new editor asked me to do something special for the cover, so I pulled out all of the [post stitch, cluster, chain loop, and varying stitch height] stops to create the Blazing Cowl.  I had a LOT [...]

I first met Robyn Chachula a few months ago at TNNA, but I’ve been a fan of her crochet work for much longer than that. I started to take notice a few years ago, and was thrilled when her first book, Blueprint Crochet: Modern Designs for the Visual Crocheter, came out–she’s a kindred spirit in [...]