crafts
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I Made My Christmas and Yuletide Gifts This Year
“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched…
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Daily Art Musings: A First Time for Starting Over; The Necessary Evil of Frogging
“You can’t be afraid to burn everything down and start from scratch. Because the only direction…
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Daily Art Musings: Admiring Folk Art
“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the…
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Yarn Weights for Regular People
“There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup,…
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How to Make an Elegant Fabric Bookmark
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are” ― Mason Cooley Although…
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Fall Knitting Plans: Autumn Colors and Memento Mori
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say…
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Big Girl Needles
“I don’t think you turn thirty and become immune to mistake-making or lesson learning. You grow…
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Consummating the Knitting Marriage
“I made this for you. I thought of you while I made it. I guess I…
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Simple Knitting Terminology
Bind Off (bo): The process of finishing a knitted piece by securing the stitches and creating a…