September shop special!, written 1 day ago, .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Free Tea Time Bunny Notepad ($7 value) with orders of $20 or over. Just mention BUNNY...

Introducing 4 Torpedoes!, written 2 days ago, Yes, cube farm cohort, good friend and all 'round creative colleague, Jenna, and I have begun a new little business venture...4 Torpedoes!What is 4 Torpedoes you inquire?4 Torpedoes is fantastic fluff, handsomely hand-painted. It is yarn that has been so...

The Perils of Creating Without Scribbling, written 1 day ago, I made this beautiful headband while at the beach back in July.  I love it.  I love that in order to achieve the simple look, a little more complexity is involved, but it remains a project that can be completed in an hour or less.  I d...

My Interview and a Contest Drawing!, written 2 days ago, The interview was terrific! I am quite the talker, though. I probably could have gone on and on and on! Below you will find a link to the interview so that you can download it,...

End of August, written 6 days ago, Well, I got loads of gardening done, despite a few wet days. Not as much as I wanted to, but I did get a lot of cutting back done, and progress has been made.My theory is that if I get the garden as up to date as I can by the autumn, there should be less to do next...

Afghan now where it was made for, written 1 week ago, Axel just sent me a photo of the afghan i made him. This is it in his bedroom of his Berlin appartment. This is specifically where it was made for so it's kinda cool that I get to see it there. I didn't get to go to the appartment when I was in G...

Photos of my craft room, written 3 days ago, These photos were taken on August 3 after a few weekends of quilt block piecing. From the doorway: From the opposite corner:

Still tired, written 1 day ago, So, after spending 5 weeks away for home you come back and feel relaxed and wonderful. That feeling stops after 2-3 days.You think that these nice feelings would stay forever? No!!! You are wrong there, BIG TIME! Other people see it at different way.They haven't seen ...

I enjoy combining my love for Greyhounds and crochet to create original patterns. A portion of the sales of all my patterns is donated to benefit Greyhound Adoption.

Treasures, written 1 day ago, Yesterday was nearly as bad as Monday. Left at home with the baby for the first time in weeks while trying to balance the chemistry in my brain was frustrating to say the least. Buddha was having one of those Nothing-Will-Make-Me-Happy days. By the time Husband got home...

Cozy Sneak Preview 1, written 1 day ago, These are 2 models for my class Cozy From The Toe Up. I will be teaching it in Denver in just a few weeks.Being that I was a real skeptic of crochet socks, I have a ton of information I am dying to discuss in class. That is besides the general how to make a s...

Knitting and crocheting to keep the babies of Long Island warm and toasty.

Gerbera Doily, written 1 week ago, &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp*** CLICK TO ENLARGE ***I had got this pattern from http://www.freepatterns.com/. You...

I love the elegant fashions of the 1940s and 1950s, especially knitwear from this era, and Vogue patterns were at the zenith of this craft. I'm also a collector of fashion books featuring haute couture, especially of the 1950s.

Gaggle? Flock? Herd?, written 6 days ago, This morning I was running very late for work. We had VIP visitors, so it was not a good day to be late. As I pulled out of the driveway and drove up the street, I saw something that delighted me!!! Not a deer (that always delights me!), but something totall...

The joy of homemaking.

Wouldn't you like to be knitting here..., written 1 day ago, Stand back... I have knitting needles and I am not afraid to use them!!!

Nanny Fanny and her new clothes, written 5 days ago, Some time ago I made a good deal on Ebay, as I bought a lot of ten Horsman vinyl dolls. Here is one of the dolls. She became Fanny, the nanny of von Oebskuepsch family.I made these new clothes for Fanny. I applied some patterns from the book "...

Introducing MUXO Handbags, written 1 week ago, Based on the style-preference delusion that fashionistas don't detest big fringe, and seemingly out of the 70's, has arrived new bag design house MUXO. Designed and crafted solely by Camila Alves and her own dear mother, Muxo's bags are painstakingly la...

Reboot, written 3 weeks ago, In light of a shift in topics, I'm moving my blog over to Yarn or Death. Hope you'll check it out!