My father recently got a bread maker. As someone who’s determined to make my life harder than it needs to be I was skeptical at first – using a machine for something you could do yourself with twice as much work in double the time? But I do have to admit it has slowly been […]
Mid-Month Middle Earth 6
I come contrite, sad to admit I have not gotten as much done as I had planned. I have made some progress, mostly by dogged determination to have an update and the skin of my teeth, but it’s no where near what I had hoped to have finished. I’m almost moving onto the next color, […]
Di-Di-Digimon, Digitama!
I only had a partial picture of this piece in my Fandom Fun post but I finally finished it and wanted to show it off a little! Pictured below are nine crests from the old anime Digimon Adventure (plus the crest of kindness from Adventure 02) and their corresponding digi-egg (or digitama, as the show […]
First Friday Fiction: Spring Showers
This is a very short story for the month, mostly because all the other stories I have I want to do a better picture for. This week has been a whole bunch of going very slow to get what I want done, and feeling very rushed to try and get it all finished. I’m hoping […]
Pre-planning for Ponchos
I attend a knitters group once a week when I have the time, and every once in a while one of the older knitters will bring in something from their stash (pattern books, yarn, needles) that they no longer need or use. Recently one of the items they were giving away was a book on […]
To Search or Not to Search: Using Yarns Specified in Patterns
Despite liking to make patterns I don’t often go out of my way to try and find the yarn specified for a project in most pattern books. If I’m getting a pattern from a store or shop that also sells the specific brand of yarn I’ll look into it, but a lot of the time […]
Pattern Practice, Take One
I don’t know about anyone else, but at a certain point once you’ve done a project or hobby enough time I think your brain gets a little bit ambitious. Maybe it starts when you’re putting an edge on something, or maybe you start daydreaming when you’re knitting, but at a certain point you start experimenting […]
Macaron Magic, Take Two
I may be a day late but hopefully I’m not a dollar short. I lost track of time yesterday and didn’t realize I hadn’t posted yet, so here is a slightly delayed post! I think I mentioned in a post last year that I made macarons once, and they turned out rather well. I tride […]
Mid-Month Middle Earth 5
We’re back with the monthly update, and I’ve finally managed to move onto page two of the pattern. I’m still using the first color I chose to work with but the end is in sight! At least for this part of the pattern. Of course once I finish with this sections I’ll just be moving […]
Fandom Fun
I know I’ve touched on this briefly when it comes to my Haro posts but I wanted to spend a little time talking about fandom crafting. We all have something we are a fan of, be it a book series, a sports team, a movie, or a video game. As people who like crafting, we […]