This monday was the last meeting of my baby sweater class and all of the students left well on their way to being finished. Here are Margaret, Priscilla and Diane with their sweaters. They might be a little tired from all of that sewing up.

I love seeing how the pattern came out with all of [...]

Despite the fact that it’s 99 degrees outside where I live, I know fall is coming. For some of you. I read your blogs and I’m jealous.  For you, I designed this super cozy project, the Cotton Candy Cowl.
Special thanks to my sister Mary for modeling it in the 91 degree heat today! Thank goodness [...]

Almost two years ago, I started playing with a shell design while I swatched for something or another. I realized that when I changed colors every two rows, the shells sort-of looked like flowers. Actually, I must have been playing with my Lacy Shells Hat Pattern at the time. The lace pattern reminded me of [...]

This week I was finally able to put the finishing touches on my * favorite * ever crochet project. (I think that might actually be a true statement). Now presenting, my Garden Path Shawl!

The pattern is by LilyGo and it is great, well worth the $6. I worked exclusively from the diagrams, I am sure [...]

It’s been a busy summer for me. I’m trying to juggle lots of freelance work (which is great) with teaching/working at Yarnivore (which I love) and you know…having a life? Unfortunately the third thing on the list falls to the wayside sometimes when numbers 1 and 2 ramp up. I feel like I’ve been glued [...]

The September/October issue of Crochet Today–which is surprisingly already available for preview–has a special section focusing on patterns for those new to the hook. Keeping in mind what I’ve learned through teaching, I designed three of them, each focusing on one main stitch for beginners to practice.  However, you don’t need to be a beginner [...]

For the past two weeks, I’ve been filling in for other employees at Yarnivore. It has been totally exhausting, and I had to cast my design work to the side for a while (don’t worry, I’ll still make the deadlines!).  But I wanted to share a little bit more about why I work there and [...]

When I checked the mail today, I found my contributor’s copies for two magazines that I have projects in–always exciting!

The first mag was Inside Crochet, a UK crochet magazine that has a good mix of garments, home decor and other stuff to crochet (I like a good mix!). My design is the Summer Picnic Wrap, [...]

I hope you all have as much fun for the Fourth of July as this cute little lady seems to be having.  My twitter friend Carrie (also of  This Mama Makes Stuff) sent me this photo to of her daughter wearing an adorable dress she made using the trim pattern from the Seaside Dress in [...]

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 [...]