june at noon

In the midst of working on a long list of Christmas and birthday gifts, I got a little crazy and told my daughter she could look through Mr. Funky’s Super Crochet Wonderful and pick a little amigurumi creature for me to make for her. She chose the monkey, and I started working on it here [...]

Oh, yes, I’ve got

I’ve got other finished granny shrugs to show you on Monday, but for the weekend I thought I’d leave you with this mini-me version made for my daughter. (I’d say it fits about an American size 3T or so.) She took a real liking to one of the yarns I was working with, so I [...]

I have been finishing off stalled out projects like a madwoman and can finally move on to something I’ve wanted to try ever since I first saw it: Kirsty’s granny shrug. I used Bernat Roving for this one, with a 11.5 mm (P) hook (after some serious experimenting with hook sizes). I’m down to the [...]

I’m sure you’ll be happy to know I finished the tiny baby’s blanket that I had started on Wednesday. Baby is quite cozy now and sleeping much better, thank you. (Excuse the low lighting, but it would be rude to wake her by turning on the lights.) Our dollhouse is just a plain, wooden model [...]

My creative space has been buzzing with activity lately, as I’ve been putting the finish to a lot of projects that had stopped midway for one reason or another. I’ve also found a few minutes here and there to create a couple of small pieces for my daughter’s dollhouse. What you see there is the [...]

Well, hi there, friends! I’m back from my month’s break from regular blogging while I participated in the July habit project. I hope I didn’t bore you too much with it; I really enjoyed it myself! I have a bunch of crafty things to show off, some of them from all the way back in [...]

For the month of July I’ll be taking a little time off from regular blogging. Instead, I’ll be playing along with habit’s community participation project via their flickr pool. I’ll be posting to the pool as I feel inspired, but also here on my regular Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule. I hope you’ll enjoy the change of pace; [...]

I think Resurrection Fern’s covered stones are beautiful. They’re so small and simple-yet-complex and delicate. So I decided to try my hand at one. I started out fiddling with some doily patterns, but they weren’t right, and I finally said to myself, “You’ve been crocheting for 20 plus years. I’m pretty sure you could just [...]

I’ve finished two of three baby blankets now, one already gifted and the other wrapped up and waiting. I forgot to photograph the finished version of the blue blanket before I gave it away, but I took a moment to drape the purple one over a chair for a quick photo shoot, albeit in very [...]