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Snowflake Blanket Knitting Pattern

October 12, 2012 By Laura 20 Comments

Snowflake Blanket Knitting Pattern

So I think only my fellow knitters understand the joy and the pain of friends having babies. Because babies are cute and we want to knit them all the stuff and yet there’s so little time and so many babies that our collective fingers will all fall off at some point. You get me, right? I […]

Filed Under: 31 Days, crafting Tagged With: knitting, knitting pattern

6 Enchanting Novels About Knitting

May 5, 2020 By Laura 21 Comments

6 Enchanting Novels About Knitting

Knitting is therapeutic, I tell you (except, of course, for those times you discover a mistake several rows back and you must unravel an hour’s worth of work while cursing quietly). But for the most part, curling up in a comfy spot with a hot cup of something and a giant pile of fluffy yarn…well, […]

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10 Favorite Sweater Knitting Patterns for Kids

April 29, 2020 By Laura 2 Comments

10 Favorite Sweater Knitting Patterns for Kids

Although I’m partial to baby blanket knitting patterns and, I think, always will be, I do love knitting sweaters for kids as well. Kid sweaters are fun! You can try out embellishments or new stitches in knitting patterns without committing to an entire blanket. And unlike the sweaters I knit for me, kids’ sweaters almost always turn […]

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14 Children’s Christmas Books

December 5, 2018 By Laura 7 Comments

14 Children’s Christmas Books

We have some fun Christmas traditions. Some years, we head to the mountains to cut down our tree. The kids have Christmas concerts and recitals. We decorate. We try to fit in some baking (though I don’t think it’s happening this year). I’ve started making my older kids watch cheesy Hallmark Christmas movies with me, which […]

Filed Under: Kids' activities Tagged With: Christmas, kid, kids, kids reading, read, reading list

How to Care For Handknits

July 22, 2018 By Laura 7 Comments

How to Care For Handknits

I love starting a new knitting project. I love that “Aha!” moment when you start to see a pattern emerge on a blanket or a scarf. I love that same moment when a sweater starts to take shape. I love when I try a new stitch or embellishment, and after several tries and some muttered […]

Filed Under: organizing Tagged With: cleaning, household, knit, knitting

Knitting Journals to Keep Track of All Your Projects

May 14, 2018 By Laura 9 Comments

Knitting Journals to Keep Track of All Your Projects

About a year ago, I started keeping a reading journal. I’m in a book club, and I like talking about books with my mom and my friends and I found myself quite often saying things like “I just read this great book. I remember thinking you would really like it. It’s about this woman who…” […]

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How to Work a Long Tail Cast On (Continental Cast On)

May 9, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

How to Work a Long Tail Cast On (Continental Cast On)

I share a lot of knitting patterns here. Baby blanket knitting patterns are one of my favorite things because 1) babies are adorable and anything and everything made for babies to use or wear is pretty much adorable and 2) you don’t have to measure blankets. You don’t really even have to worry about the […]

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12 Ways to Organize the Yarn Stash

January 11, 2018 By Laura 3 Comments

12 Ways to Organize the Yarn Stash

Are you January-ing like I am? Resolving to eat some actual green, leafy things and to get outside and walk or run or something instead of stying huddled up inside where it’s warm? And perhaps even planning to organize your yarn stash? No? Is that going too far? I love to look at ideas for organizing […]

Filed Under: crafting, organizing Tagged With: knit, knitting

10 Gifts for Knitters in Your Life

December 4, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

10 Gifts for Knitters in Your Life

This is always dangerous territory for me. I try to write about gifts for knitters…and I inevitably end up tempted to buy it all. It can be justified, though, right? It’s not really for me. It’s for me to make nice things for everyone else. I’m a giver. A sacrificer. And if I must buy some personalized knitting […]

Filed Under: crafting Tagged With: knit, knitting, knitting pattern

Your Must-Have Fairy Garden Supplies

June 1, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

Your Must-Have Fairy Garden Supplies

If you’ve been reading here for any amount of time, you know we love our fairy gardens! And since the weather is nice out, the kids have been spending more time outdoors, cleaning out the fairies’ habitats and getting them ready for summer. We introduce new things each year, but we do have a core list […]

Filed Under: gardening, Kids' activities Tagged With: fairy garden, summer

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