I recently had an order for a gift set for a new baby (thank you, Barbara!). The customer wanted an octopus and two washcloths. I wanted to make the washcloths out of 100% cotton yarn, but I wasn’t able to find any that would be soft enough for a baby. I finally found a cotton…
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A couple of months ago, I had an urgent order for my first “lovey” from a friend whose son was sick with an ear infection, about to have surgery to have ear tubes put in, and his bunny lovey was about to fall apart. I had never made a lovey before, but I was happy…
Yesterday I had fun modifying a pattern for an adult barefoot sandal into a child version to fit Naomi’s size 1 foot. I had posted a link to a group of patterns on our Facebook page the day before, and she had seen the article and asked me to make her a pair. The pattern called for…
Every Friday afternoon during the summer, our town has a farmer’s market. I always try to go and buy fresh eggs, and sometimes a treat like goat cheese, jam, honey, or veggies. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that my favorite booth to buy eggs from, Sweet Pumpkins Farm, also sold handmade soaps. I…
Our very first order and all-time best-selling product so far is the tiny crochet sloth. I am so grateful to my dad’s former co-worker who first posted a link to the pattern on Facebook and asked if I could make her six of them! The pattern was a bit difficult for me to follow at first–it’s simple,…
Today I finished making a pink bear lovey for my friend’s daughter. I tried three different patterns before I finally ended up loosely basing the design on one, but modifying it heavily, so I’m going to post the pattern I came up with here. Every pattern I tried yielded a cute animal head that could…
Earlier this month my daughter Naomi’s school had Teacher Appreciation Week. I volunteer weekly in Naomi’s art class, and I also help out her classroom teacher once a week with things like decorating her classroom, photocopying worksheets, and other small tasks to help things run smoothly. She really needed a better pencil sharpener, and she…
Our first Project in the Spotlight has to be the Enchanted Rose with Diamonds that Jason made last fall! Jason responded to a Craigslist post asking for a skilled artisan to make a beautiful display base for the Beauty and the Beast rose that was given to the poster’s significant other as a gift previously….
On a chilly evening in November 2016, while we were watching TV (somewhere in the Doctor Who episodes with Jon Pertwee as The Doctor), Jason taught me how to crochet. A lot of people are surprised when they hear that my boyfriend taught me to crochet, thinking that crochet is more of a female hobby,…