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Electioneering, the American Way.

Well, I need all of your votes. Each one, as often as you can (since you can vote every 12 hours in the Design WarsView full post »

War and Love~A Designer’s Battle…

It’s been 1.5 years of hardcore Madness for this family, for this Momma. Making my blog public and sharingView full post »

Design Wars 3 is about to get Mad!

Are you familiar with Design Wars? It’s a wonderful crochet design challenge hosted by Baca Creations and nowView full post »

Falling, again.

Do you ever feel like you are just falling into well and the good and bad is just zipping by you. You may catch aView full post »

Join the Love, please.

Granny squares are easily my favorite crochet items. I’m amazed how they can showcase a lovely yarn, be made inView full post »

My Friend Michelle and her Perfect Knot

About a year ago, I started getting pretty brave about getting to know folks online. I’m just old enough so theView full post »

Santa’s Helper

Every year the Lumberjack and I get to do Santa’s job and we love it. This year, the Boy is seven, I’m notView full post »

Wrist Wraps and Real Patterns

Thorough patterns, that include product pictures, charts, diagrams and yarn info have always been like gifts to me, 8 1/View full post »

Favorite Crochet Techniques

There’s more than one way to skin a cat, we all know this. This principle applies to crochet as well. I’veView full post »

Books Shmooks and Tiny Clothes

Books. This single word will trigger a flush of emotion is every, single member of my family. We love them, even the &#View full post »

Choosing Colors and Making Your Own Sampler or My OCD Ring.

Each card contains the brand, color and weight of yarn. The yarn is just wrapped around and knotted on the back side. NoView full post »

Pattern Design-Fear, Hope & Love

I love cables and texture so this design combines my fear of rejection, my hope of success and my love of cables. I mayView full post »

Mad Market Bag Pattern-Small and Large

Bags, purses, duffels, wallets, backpacks and baskets. I love containers. It’s a strange obsession and I cannotView full post »

To Etsy or Not?

This dilemma is known to so many creative folks. First, we get ‘into’ something. I mean really into it. WeView full post »

Quick Tassels with Yarn

Some things just need an extra, oomph to them. I made a lovely thing, but it lacked something and it took me a bit ofView full post »

Olli Olli Oxen Free! or Childhood Game Garland

I’m not a soft gooey person. I never make that impression on people. I laugh extremely loud, I’m WAYView full post »

A Colorful Week

Some weeks are colorful, just as some days are Smelly. This week has been particularly colorful. But the proof’sView full post »

I Think I Can, I Think I Can…My Bohemian Purse Project

I, just like every other creative person I know, have dozens, nay, hundreds of ideas stashed in folders, files,View full post »

Tiny Owls – Simple Pattern

Here is the pattern for this little guy. These are made from Caron Simply Soft. Tiny Owl Pattern Use the appropriateView full post »

Elegant Heart Pattern

I’m not much of a sucker for Valentine’s Day, but I’m a complete sucker for crochet. And I just can&#View full post »

PIN the Tail on the Amigurumi Donkey (Crochet Advice #2)

If you haven’t been to Pinterest yet, or you’ve been trying to avoid it for fear of it becoming another timeView full post »

da Vinci’s Ashtray (Crochet Advice #1)

I imagine even da Vinci made a few ashtrays for his mom before he got the hang of things Pin ItView full post »

Bavarian Crochet Blanket and a Bit of Love

I have a bunch of yarn that is different weights and colors, so I wanted to create a scrap blanket. I also wanted it toView full post »

My First Critter Hats-Crochet

We’ve all been seeing the hat craze going on and I just love all the critters. There’s just somethingView full post »