Crafting Up A Storm and A New Spot To Find My Patterns

I have been a busy woman this month, with several letter pillows to create for customers as well as taking some time to start making some of my favorite Christmas paper crafts, as you see above. I am also currently crocheting a red letter Z, which I am very happy to do since it [...]

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Working on Lovely Little Letter Patterns

I have been working hard on my Lovely Little Letter patterns lately. In the past several days I have been creating the patterns for a capital J, capital I, capital L, lowercase t, and lowercase o. Hopefully I will have the patterns available soon; I have a few great testers working on some [...]

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I See All The Letters of the Alphabet!!

Well, not really. Just the letters in my blog name. I love the alphabet because it enables the sharing of ideas. I have been very busy combining a love of the alphabet and reading with my crochet work lately with my Lovely Little Letters series. So, here are a few items [...]

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A Dinnertime Game to Practice Our Signs

This evening my three year old shared that her letter of the day at preschool was “P.” We spontaneously started naming words that start with that letter, giving hints by signing the word and getting others to name the word. It was quite interesting to see how many signs the girls remembered, despite [...]

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Creating Some Lovely Little Letters

I have been interested in making some stuffed crocheted letters that looked more like letters that children easily recognize for a while. I had done some research on cross stitch programs, hoping that one might help me in the design process. Since I have a computer that uses Linux instead of Windows I [...]

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This post brought to you by the letter M

I just finished making this pillow for my youngest daughter. She loves purple and picked out the yarn with me at the craft store. She brought it with her to bed tonight and as we were saying our good nights, she turned it upside down and told me, “This is what a W looks [...]

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ASL Playgroup — ABC theme books and activities

The signs for the alphabet letters are very important in learning sign language. Many of the letter hand shapes are used in other signs, so learning the alphabet is a useful beginning skill. Very young children often cannot make the hand shapes accurately, but they can recognize them so it is important to [...]

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