A couple weeks ago, a fellow crocheter friend reached out to ask me a very interesting question: someone needed a crochet doll of John Travolta’s character from the ’70s movie Grease made in just 2 weeks. Was I up for taking on this project? The really interesting part: it was a gift for a baby!…
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Written by Reba at Crafty Reason http://craftyreason.com Credits: Based on Schwartz’s Stocking Cap, original on display at A Christmas Story House & Museum: https://www.redriderleglamps.com/collections/replica-hats-beanie-caps/products/a-christmas-story-schwartz-stocking-cap-replica Movie screenshot appears courtesy of MGM/UA Entertainment Co. Pattern inspired by: “Santa’s Helper” Free Crochet Elf Hat Pattern With Ears https://makeanddocrew.com/free-crochet-elf-hat-pattern-with-ears/ A Christmas Story Costume Designer: Mary E. McLeod Wardrobe Department:…
This summer, my Dad passed away after his second battle with mantle cell lymphoma. We were very close, good friends as well as being father and daughter. I miss him every day, and it still takes my breath away sometimes when I am startled to remember that he is gone. My parents got married when…
Over the past year I have learned a valuable lesson the hard way. Hopefully most crocheters don’t have to go through the pain of watching a project they worked hard on start coming apart because they didn’t weave the ends in well enough. That is what happened to my poor temperature blanket. I didn’t leave…
My daughter has just reached the age where she wants to carry her own purse. Over the past couple of months, she has used her allowance money to buy two different purses. One she liked but it was too small to hold everything–she learned the lesson of practicality and function over fashion early! The other…
Happy New Year! I finished my temperature blanket on New Years Day. The temperature blanket ended up being a bit different than I had originally planned, but I am really happy with how it came out. It’s the perfect size for snuggling up in to watch a movie, instead of being too huge to really…
The temperature blanket of course has continued to grow! I managed to find a good substitute for the mint green that is actually even softer than the original yarn, and is a pretty close color match. I’ve also since run out of and had to buy more of the soft rose (70s) and arbor rose…
I work part-time at the ranch where my daughter and I ride horses, and I wanted to make a fellow ranch worker’s daughter a ragdoll horse for her third birthday. The original horse was a little bigger and not as floppy as I had hoped. I thought it would be cute if the horse were…
Today my temperature blanket is halfway done! I have run out of the mint green first (used for temps in the 60s). Unfortunately it looks like that color has been discontinued, so I’m going to make my first in-person trip to Michaels since before the pandemic started to try and match it up to something…
My temperature blanket is still going strong! Naomi’s birthday was in April, so I used the gold thread on her birthday like I did for my own. It actually was colder on her birthday (April 22) than it was on mine (March 24)! April did not have as much variety as March did, or as…