This post is part of my 2012 Hispanic Heritage Month interview series. Today, I’m interviewing crochet designer and blogger Nuria Pastor, also known as Bezencilla around the web. Nuria is currently living in the Netherlands but she is originally from Madrid. You can find Nuria online as Bezencilla on Ravelry, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Etsy, and Flickr, as well … Read more
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that I don’t share many details about my personal (that is, non-crafting) life. As a result, most of my readers probably don’t know too much about my background. I grew up in Brooklyn and Manhattan within two multi-ethnic (Cuban and Italian-American), multi-faith (Catholic, Santeria, … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. After missing my YOP post last week, I wanted to have something new and amazing for this week’s post. My first experiment with domino knitting didn’t produce much worthy of showing or discussing, so I decided to return to the trusty granny square. Since another YOP blogger, Robin from Crochet Nirvana, … Read more
Although I’ve been participating in Surmount the Stash all year and have been fairly good about avoiding new yarn purchases, the siren song of my favorite local yarn shop, Knitty City, began calling to me last night. The start of my yarn craving was receiving an email update about another local yarn shop that is closing … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. It’s been almost 6 weeks since I last participated in Work in Progress Wednesday and Yarn Along. Life got very busy and I was mostly working on secret projects, so there was nothing too exciting to share. I’m happy to be back with a (very) little something and am looking forward … Read more