

Handmade gifts can be wonderful, but sometimes making everything yourself can be a recipe for stress and/or disaster. I can help, if you’d like…
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Handmade gifts can be wonderful, but sometimes making everything yourself can be a recipe for stress and/or disaster. I can help, if you’d like…
Read More: Last-minute handmades

It’s the Choose Your Own Adventure of patchwork scarves: Learn to make your own, or buy one of mine. Check it out!
Read More: It’s all about the scarf, baby

There are some new crochet hooks and knitting loom tools in the shop! These are the last ones I’ll be making this year, so if you want some, now is the time!
Read More: Hey, more hooks!

The Luxurious Loom-Knit Neckwarmer project and the Earwarmer Trio project have gotten snazzy facelifts. Plus, now you can buy just the neckwarmer pattern, without the tutorial. Yay! (P.S. Holiday gift-making alert!)
Read More: The warmers – UPDATED!

Good news! Now you can get some of my patterns by themselves (i.e. without tutorials). This is great, if you don’t need the hand-holding and just want the instructions. Save some moolah!
Read More: Just the Patterns

It’s a new eBook tutorial for October: Striped Wristwarmers! Suitable for double-pointed needles or knitting loom. Get just the pattern, or a full-blown pattern+ tutorial, depending on your skill level.
Read More: Fun with Stripes

I had a lightbulb moment about knitting during my working hours, and as a result I got stripey today while the sun was still shining.
Read More: Prototype in stripes

I received a nice batch of crochet hook and loom tool orders this season – thank you! Take a peek at my hook-making workflow, and get the scoop on what’s up for the shop between now and the holidays.
Read More: It’s clay week

The Lakeside Forest Blanket pattern and tutorial PDF has been upgraded! It’s newly-formatted for a more pleasant reading experience. Come learn to make a straight-sided granny hexagon blanket even a teenager could love 🙂
Read More: Lakeside Forest Blanket – UPGRADED!

Polka Dot Cottage and CraftyPod are teaming up to bring you the Tackling the BIG Project Blog Hop! For my part, I talk about crocheting a blanket and tell you how an instant-gratification junkie like me, meets the challenges of dealing with a long-term project like the Mod Floral Blanket
Read More: Tackling the BIG Project: Crocheted Blankets