Year of Projects, Year 2: New Year, New List
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After reviewing my progress in last week’s post, I decided to revise my list for the last half of the Year of Projects. This may not seem as ambitious as my original list, but for right now it works for me. I’ve been purposely vague about the exact numbers of projects, etc. because I would [...]
Giveaway: 40 Favorite Ripple Afghans
Today’s giveaway is the last in my series of unclaimed prizes. I’m giving away 40 Favorite Ripple Afghans, courtesy of Leisure Arts. (Ravelry members can see about half of the patterns here.) This was another prize from the Ripple Mania CAL, and linda74 from alottastitches already owned a copy. This book includes contest patterns from Crochet with Heart magazine. This giveaway is [...]
Giveaway: Rippling Effects
Continuing my theme of unclaimed prizes, today’s book is Rippling Effects by Carole Prior, courtesy of Leisure Arts. (Ravelry members can see most of the patterns here.) This was one of the prizes from the Ripple Mania CAL, but linda74 from alottastitches already owned a copy. This is a great pattern book for ripple lovers (or [...]
Ripple Mania CAL giveaway winners!
I’m so glad that I said the Ripple Mania CAL giveaway winners would be selected randomly because it would have been impossible to choose my favorite projects from among all of the great entries! I had a wonderful time during the CAL, and I hope you did, too. I want to thank everyone who participated [...]
Ripple Mania CAL: Giveaway
Whether you’re just joining in or you’ve been participating in the Ripple Mania Crochet-a-long since October, I know you’re excited to hear more about the prizes! The Ripple Mania CAL has four fantastic sponsors, Coats & Clark, Leisure Arts, Lion Brand Yarn, and Magique Enterprises, who have each put together a great prize package. This post describes the prizes, [...]
Ripple Mania CAL, Week 5: Adding ripples to motifs
The last PDF for the Ripple Mania CAL was just uploaded! This week’s PDF is all about how to turn granny square or hexagon projects into ripples. There are two more weeks to join in before we can start competing for the awesome giveaways! Stop by Ravelry to join in on the CAL. Ripple Mania [...]
Ripple Mania CAL: Week 4 – Squaring Up Your Ripple
This week is all about squaring up a ripple – how to combine a ripple pattern with a straight edged stitch. This week’s Ripple Mania PDF includes a baby blanket project. I’m also very excited to announce two more sponsors for the Ripple Mania prizes: Magique Enterprises and Lion Brand Yarn are joining Red Heart and Leisure Arts by contributing [...]
Holiday Stashdown Challenge, Week 26
(Join along with me any time if you need a head start or moral support for your holiday crafting. You can read more details here.) After a few weeks without anything interesting report, I’m happy to say I finished two holiday projects. I made this crescent shawl using stash yarn and one of the buttons I [...]
Surmount the Stash – October Review
Perhaps this post should be subtitled,”How the mighty have fallen.” After doing some supersonic stashbusting in September, I had an unusually high level of stash acquisition in October. My accomplishments I used about 1,020 yards of stash yarn for various projects, including a square and a hat for charity, three ripple projects made as samples for [...]
