NatCroMo13 in Review!
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If you’re like me, you have been following along with many sepecial National Crochet Month features and may be behind on your blog reading. Here’s a quick roundup of my NatCroMo13 posts. Free Wednesday posts! Blogiversary, A Tour through Crochet Country, and a free pattern! A treasury of handmade, wooden crochet hooks Trip to Pittsburg with a [...]
Favorite Online Crochet Resources: Tips and Tricks from FreshStitches
Every Saturday during National Crochet Month 2013, I’ll be highlighting one of my favorite online crochet resources. Today’s featured site is FreshStitches, my favorite source of tips and tricks for crochet and small (crafty) business. I’m a huge fan of Stacey Trock, also known as FreshStitches. I had the pleasure of interviewing her and participating [...]
Favorite Online Crochet Resources: News with Crochet Concupiscence
Every Saturday during National Crochet Month 2013, I’ll be highlighting one of my favorite online crochet resources. Today’s featured site is Crochet Concupiscence, my favorite source of crochet-related news. It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Kathryn Vercillo‘s blog, Crochet Concupiscence. I’ve interviewed Kathryn twice on my blog (here and here), and I’ve previously [...]
New Series: Vintage Needlecrafts Pick of the Week
Regular readers may know that I have a sizeable collection of vintage needlecrafts books. (I’m using the Etsy definition of vintage, which includes anything at least 20 years old.) I currently have over 50 vintage books, e-books, and magazines in my collection. I love looking through older needlecrafts books. While the very old pattern [...]
2012 Year in Review: Interviews
Yep, I just tooted my own horn . Thanks again to Kathryn Vercillo from Crochet Concupiscence for awarding me the 2012 Awesome Crochet Blog Award for Best Interviews. As part of my 2012 Year in Review series, today I’m sharing five of my favorite interviews from 2012. I was surprised to see that I posted [...]
Good news!
This past week, I’ve gotten great news on several different fronts, and I really wanted to share the excitement with my readers! New Patterns On Tuesday, two of my designs were released in new pattern books: Quick and Simple Crochet Scarves: 9 Designs from Up-and-Coming Designers! and Quick and Simple Crochet Hats: 8 Designs from [...]
Year of Projects, Year 2: My thoughts on continuing in YOP
You may have noticed I haven’t posted a Year of Projects update for the last two weeks. I have been following along with my favorite YOP bloggers, but I think I’m taking a break from the Year of Projects for a while. I say “I think” because this has been something I’ve debated about for [...]
Interview with Kathryn Vercillo, author of Crochet Saved My Life
Today, I’m interviewing Kathryn Vercillo, one of my favorite crochet bloggers, for the second time. (You can check out the first interview here.) Kathryn recently self published a book, Crochet Saved My Life, about the ways crochet supports physical and mental healing. Kathryn is a professional writer, and her work has been published in magazines such [...]
Year of Projects, Year 2: Decisions
This week, I auditioned six more motifs for my mom’s milestone birthday blanket. I made each sample with stash yarn, and I’m happy to report that I’m almost to the bottom of one of my plastic yarn tubs! This is my version of Duckbill Dalliance by Margaret MacInnis. I like this motif a lot, but [...]
3KCBWDAY4 – A Knitter or Crocheter For All Seasons?
Seasonality doesn’t have much of an effect on my crocheting and knitting. I probably make more blankets than anything else, and these are usually in response to events (new babies, new homes, engagements, etc.) that happen year round. In years past, I was very good about planning ahead for the winter holidays, and actually made [...]
