We’re coming up to Christmas and that means Christmas cookies! I like all kinds of cookies, and the holidays is a great time for Christmas cookie exchanges. Some of my favorite cookies to make are Checkerboard, kolacky, sugar cookies and ginger bread, though molasses and chocolate chip cookies are up there too. Of course, this […]
Mid-Month Middle Earth 3
I have finished the border on the cross stitch. Sort of. I have had that starting line sitting in my drafts for the last few weeks, mostly so that I would have to have the border finished by this next update. It has been one of the driving factors that has had me spending hours […]
Hello, Haro!
A couple of months ago I found an amigurumi pattern for a robot named “HARO”. They’re a mascot character for the TV series Mobile Suit Gundam. I had some free time on my hand, some yarn that I needed to use up and some leftover stuffing so I decided to give the pattern a shot. […]
a Growing Amigurumi Army
I think that anyone who’s done crochet for any amount of time has heard about amigurumi, the Japanese art of creating cute little stuffed animals out of knitting or crochet. there’s something a little addictive about it, just sitting down and in an hour or two you’ve got a cute little stuffed animal or toy. […]
First Friday Fiction: Tech Support
So this isn’t a terribly long short story (only like 500 words) but it got me thinking after I wrote it. I only saw bits and pieces of a british comedy called “the IT crowd” about the IT workers at a company and I started wondering what a spy parody movie or series about the […]
DIY Decorations and Steam Blocking
Good evening! I meant to get this posted this morning, but things don’t always go the way we plan. I hope this post is worth the wait! One thing I like about crochet is that if you’re doing a small project it can go by pretty fast. I’m currently working on a whole mess of […]
Stocking Throw Back
These are some stockings I made 2-3 years ago. We have an older set my aunt crocheted with our initials on them that we’ve used for years, but as my sister and I got older I thought it might be nice if we had a family set that with stockings my sister and I could […]
A Colorwork Conundrum
Pictured are a pair of colorwork fingerless gloves I made some years ago. At the time I was working at an office building and I noticed that sitting next to the window in the winter things got a little chilly in my cubicle. I decided to knit myself some light fingerless gloves as they would […]
Baking Shows: the Sweet and the Sour
With the coming of the season comes season themed baking shows, and I’m a sucker for a good baking competition. I really enjoy the holiday baking shows, mostly because I can watch and drool over all the fantastic desserts the bakers create. I have been guilty of watching the show late in the evening a […]
It’s Officially Sweater Weather Season
I want to knit a sweater. I don’t know what kind of sweater, but a burning desire to make a sweater of some kind has struck, and being confronted with a new obsession has made my old concerns look small. Yes, I have only knit flat pieces before. Yes, I will need to take my […]