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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Designing a New Tawashi Crochet Pattern

Since I have been learning to design my own patterns I have found that I work in a few different ways.  In the case of my tawashi, I have been mostly working with the same circular base and then making new designs that incorporate that as the beginning.  I do this because the circular part [...]

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More Cute Tawashi Scrubbies (and their patterns) On The Way

Since adding a poll about what patterns crocheters are searching for when they arrive at my blog, I found that many people are interested in more tawashi scrubbie patterns. On my blog I already have the flower tawashi. I currently have two other tawashi patterns available to purchase on Artfire, Ravelry, and Etsy. [...]

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Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Prize Winning Hat

Every spring our Ladies Bible Study has a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party after one of the Bible Studies. Each lady is asked to create a silly hat to wear to the tea party. In the past I have let my older daughter create a hat for me. I have also made a [...]

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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 Fine Catch and other crochet patterns in the works…

Red Fish, Blue Fish Tawashi
I made a few sets of these tawashi a while back for a friend as well as having a set or two in my Etsy shop. Then I got into other projects and kind of forgot about them. I discovered my pattern (if you can call the chicken scratch [...]

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Sports teams are filling my days

How did this happen? I come from a family that was not particularly into watching sports on television. In fact, I only remember watching sporting events when the Olympics were on television.

Now all of my time seems to be filled with figuring out which teams are in the football playoffs, which baseball or [...]

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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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Two Honors in One Week

I have been honored in two ways this week; one is for my blog (which kind of makes me feel guilty for not having consistent posts this summer) and another is for my crochet work.

First, I have been nominated for a Brilliante Weblog award by Rosie’s Cozies, who has lots of adorable items in her [...]

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And the winner is…..post number 16

Since I was blessed with so many entries, my six year old daughter chose a number between 0 and 7 for the tens place and then a number between 0 and 9 for the ones place. She picked a 1 and a 6, so number 16 is our winner. I have emailed Susan [...]

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