I do love knitting baby blankets. They’re generally easy knitting patterns, but it’s fun to watch them develop as you knit up the blanket. And you don’t have to worry much about them fitting. I actually began this one without a baby to knit it for. Certainly, there are none around here, nor will there […]
Homemade Christmas Gifts
I don’t want to give you the wrong idea. I do NOT make presents for everyone on my Christmas list. Good heavens. It’s easy to see articles suggesting recipes and patterns and ideas for homemade Christmas gifts and to assume these people make all their presents. And maybe some of them do. Most of us make […]
DIY Halloween Costumes
(This post contains affiliate links) I think the kids have decided what they want to be for Halloween already. We’re DIY Halloween Costume People — I’m too cheap to buy costumes, so things must be made or foraged from around the house here. Last year, we went with a family theme…and it kills me that […]
Knitting a Purple Dress
Before we leave on a road trip, I always take the kids to pick out some special snacks and a new (or new-to-them-thrift-store) book. Then I take them to help me pick out yarn. Because long days on the road, and long, lazy days at the beach when we get there mean lots of knitting […]
A Chunky Cable Knit Sweater
I am, quite possibly, the only person in Colorado hoping for one more good snow. Because I finally finished this cable knit sweater for my oldest. My goal is to make each of the kids a new sweater every winter, but the older they get, the longer it takes to finish one. I finished a […]
The Posy Hat
(Click here to go straight to the hat pattern in my Etsy store.) Can we chat for a minute about how much I love this hat? A lot of it is the yarn — it’s “Simplicity” by HiKoo in “Make Me Blush” and it’s the. Perfect. Shade. Of. Pink. A rose shade — not to […]
Rose Hat
(To get the Rose Hat Pattern without listening to all my yammering, click here: Rose Hat Pattern) After knitting several sweaters (including this one), and a few other Christmas presents and things for people, I went and knit something for me, me, me! I’ve got a few things in the works — but here is a look […]
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 […]