Needlecraft category

  • Daria’s Hoodie Scarf & Spider Lady Sweater

    Resolution for 2009 – Try to start this blog up again….Daria asked me to make her this Hoodie Scarf from D-Made for her birthday.I found the pattern a little confusing when I was reading t...
    Jan 19, 2009 1 Comment

  • Cloth Grocery Bag Tutorial

    This is my first attempt to give instructions on how to sew anything so please be kind. Here’s how I make my cloth grocery bags. Body Carefully open a paper grocery bag at all the seams until i...
    Aug 27, 2008 18 Comments

  • Finished things!

    Ok, well this Calvin Turtleneck is almost finishedI need to weave in the ends, sew up under the arms & block it. I really had high hopes for this sweater as it looked so cute on the WEBS site bu...
    May 29, 2008 6 Comments

  • Sewing & Knitting Along

    The weather has been getting a little nicer so I’ve been spending more time outdoors in the yard & garden but I have been working on my projects. I did a second cloth grocery bag & thi...
    May 06, 2008 4 Comments

  • Shopping a little greener

    I love the cloth grocery bags my local grocery store has given us lately but I have a silly thing about using a branded bag at another store. Plus I really would like something cuter. When I saw thi...
    Apr 22, 2008 10 Comments

  • Knitting Away…

    I finished Matt’s Retro Ribbed Socks.I made them from Paton’s Classic Merino & had to go up a needle size to make them big enough for him. He’s good to make socks for because h...
    Apr 16, 2008 4 Comments

  • Lookie is an FO!

    I finished the baby skull cap I was working on that I showed in an earlier post. I ended up ripping out the one I had started because as much as I like Ann Budd’s Knitters Handy Book of Knittin...
    Apr 03, 2008 5 Comments

  • What’s on (& off) the needles

    Lots of little projects going on right now. I finished another pair of basic ribbed socks for myself. I used Elann Esprit this time, which seems to be exactly like Fixation. I can’t tell you h...
    Mar 25, 2008 1 Comment

  • Chocolate Bunny Errata

    If you bought the Calorie Free Bunny Pattern between 3/13 & 3/21 there were two errors in the pattern… 1. Rows 31 -31 should read Rows 30 – 312. Row 43 should read kfb, k3, kfb, k3, k...
    Mar 21, 2008 1 Comment

  • Calorie Free Chocolate Bunny

    Some of you may remember this bunny I made for Matt two years ago. I have finally written the pattern that so many people have asked for & made it available here on the site as a download for $3....
    Mar 13, 2008 3 Comments