Last month I had a huge shipping scare when I mailed a beautiful triangle shawl across the country from Massachusetts all the way to Arizona. I try to use the US Postal Service unless a customer specifically asks to use UPS or FedEx. My grandfather was a postal worker, and I want to support the…
Crafty Ramblings
I’ve been using Ravelry as a first go-to stop whenever I want to look for a new pattern to try, or inspiration for starting my own pattern, or different ways to solve a problem when I’m making my own pattern. I joined the site just a couple of weeks after I learned to crochet, back…
Last year when we set up craftyreason.com, we used a pretty basic web hosting service and template just to get some material up there to see if it generated any new business or traffic. Most of our business still comes from our Facebook page and last year from a partnership with a table at our…
My parents recently got a new cell phone (finally!), and they asked me to make a case just like the one I made for their Kindle last year. I had followed a really cute pattern for the Kindle, but when I tried to translate it to cell-phone proportions, it just didn’t look as good to me….
This winter my daughter’s hands have been so dry and cracked. Her skin is so sensitive that every lotion we have tried stings and burns her–even baby lotion (which, bizarrely, has more different types of alcohol in it than regular lotion! Why is there alcohol in lotion at all…) So I have tried to make…
This is a hat pattern I made up myself based on one of the first hats I ever made without a pattern, about 2 years ago when I learned to crochet. It’s super simple and works up really quickly. It’s also very easy to modify to fit specific heads. **New Years 2020 Update! I’ve added…
My co-worker recently had a new baby. I wanted to make her a hat that would last through the winter, but my favorite baby hat pattern was for newborn-sized hats. I also wanted to do something a little more festive since she was born right around the holidays. So I made up this pattern to…
While I love the beautiful foliage in the fall in New England, where we live, I dread how cold it gets. Even when it is in the 50s, it’s way too chilly for me. I start bundling up in sweats in September. But, it’s a fun season with apple picking, fall craft festivals, and Halloween!…
Over the past couple of months, Jason and I have been working on our first collaborative project: a fly bonnet for the horse my daughter rides in weekly riding lessons at a local ranch. We noticed at a lesson in the spring that the flies were really bothering the horse, Shiloh. She was shaking her…
A few months ago, I had a special and unique order for “F-bombs.” They are super cute, soft crochet stuffed “bombs” with a letter F on them. I wasn’t able to find a pattern that matched closely enough to what was desired, so I made up a new one myself. F-bombs Terms/Abbreviations: MC: Main Color…