This post contains affiliate links. For my second post for International Crochet Day, I’m writing about a jewelry technique that includes crochet. Bert and Dana Freed are a mother-daughter team who recently wrote Bead Crochet Jewelry: An Inspired Journey Through 27 Designs. I’ve known for a while that some jewelry making methods incorporate crochet techniques, but this … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. Today is International Crochet Day, so proclaimed by Jimbo’s Front Porch a few years back. (By the way, Jimbo is hosting an awesome giveaway, too, so you should stop by!) I’m doing my little part to promote crochet in this part of the world by sharing several crochet themed posts (each with … Read more
This month seemed to go by in a blur with all that was happening at work and home, so I honestly have no idea how I did with stash this month! Let’s see… My accomplishments I made a Bruges lace scarf with a skein of super cool stash yarn. I made a bathroom rug with … Read more
I’ve somehow made it through two marathon weeks at work (10-12 hour days, working on the weekends, etc.), but crochet and knitting (and blog reading) have been on the back burner. Yesterday, I opened my Google Reader to find over 1,000 unread posts (!) and while I did get around to reading almost every YOP … Read more
I have a hard time saying goodbye to summer. Winters in the Northeast can be brutal, and, to me, the end of summer is the first part of the long haul through the shortened days and cold weather. For the past few weeks, I’ve been passing a display of sunflowers at a local market. Sunflowers … Read more