Holy cow, I can’t believe that Thanksgiving is this week! I have a lot on my plate at the moment, in t he non-food department, but I wanted to pop in and share a couple of my previous tutorials that are still as fresh as ever.

Crocheters, dig through your scraps and whip up some of [...]

I know it seems kind of early (at least, I hope it does!) to be thinking about the holidays, but Crochet Today is on top of it as far as actually giving you the patterns in time to make things for THIS year’s holidays. One of my patterns in the Nov/Dec 2010 issue  is this [...]

Psst, there’s a  new knitting magazine in town, and it’s a sister publication to Crochet Today–which means it’s got a little bit of everything for knitters of all skill levels. The very first issue of Knitting Today officially launched this week, and what do you know, I have a design in it. That’s right, a [...]

This week all of those who contributed to the Crafty Tree Trimmings E-book got together and swapped ornaments. Well, we swapped ornament ideas and each agreed to make one of the other contributor’s designs. I knew right away that I wanted to make Patricia’s Paper Globe Ornament, because the first thing I thought when I [...]

Time to announce the winners of the Living Crafts Winter issue giveaway. By the way- here’s a link to blog post by Melissa at All Buttoned Up– who had her aunt make her the earrings. Hooray! Click on over as they look quite lovely even in crochet thread.
This time I chose the winners based on [...]

I’m excited to announce a new crafty e-book: Crafty Tree Trimmings!

The book has six different ornaments made by six awesome bloggers, and each will tickle your different areas of interest. For example, my ornament is crocheted, Kayte and Betz’s ornaments are sewn, Susan’s is made with jewelry/wire techniques, Patricia’s is paper crafty, and Diane’s is [...]

I’m still adjusting to our transition and working my fingers to the bone on a big project, and truthfully I haven’t had time to craft a thing for myself lately. I miss my yarn shop job–I’d always have a personal project to work on that was easy enough to stitch between customers. It’s raining cats [...]

I spent part of this weekend making some egg-shaped easter pals for my nephew. I found the perfect lightweight wools and cashmere in my stash and even wrote up the basic pattern to share with you (scroll to the end of this post to see!).

These came out so  cute, and were fun to make. And [...]

I’m not going to lie, things have been quite stressful around these parts. But at least there is this little guy to keep us all smiling:

He’s wearing the Fleece Baby Wrap from Stitch Magazine (I sized up the 9 months to a 12 months size, but the 9 months probably would have fit better. Oh [...]

It’s about time for another procrastinatory (to me)  blatant self promotional post. I’ve got a few projects out in  books and magazines available now, and I wanted share. First off are some lovely holiday items in the latest issue of Sew Simple, which is on newsstands now. I really had fun making these adorable house ornaments, [...]