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This blog is all about what's handmade. I write about my own crafting adventures, and also about finding and trying out the work and ideas of other independent artists and crafters. I cover crafts from crochet to beer brewing to quilting to paper arts.
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Happy Solstice!
Reporting to you live from the capitol of Missouri, Jefferson City! I’ve been in the car with my husband and mother driving from Austin for 14 hours now. We are finally close to today’s destination: my aunt’s house in Columbia. Tomo...
SCARF
Ahhhhhhh … nice little blogging break there. SO! This is not exactly a major crafting accomplishment, but I finished a scarf. In particular the One Skein Scarf from Stitch ‘n Bitch Crochet: the Happy Hooker that I mentioned. I think it&...
Jeff’s Blue Beanie
Now that Thanksgiving is over – we ate all our leftovers at my mom’s house this evening – I think it’s time for a tad bit of low fat in the diet. Although I removed all the really serious fat offenders from Emeril’s reci...
Hat
I didn’t get as much done as I’d like, but I’m just a couple of rows short of a hat for Jeff. I was going to try out a local yarn shop down here where I’m having Thanksgiving, but it turns out there isn’t one. Since I d...
Queue: the Happy Hooker
I had this post mostly completed yesterday, but I didn’t hit “go” and so I can’t successfully complete NaBloPoMo. Darn! So close! But I developed a migraine yesterday evening, which if you’ll remember is not the type of ...
Crafting in the World
FIRST OF ALL: If you live in Austin, you should know that Amy’s Ice Cream is making peppermint bark. If you buy a box of it (it’s small), they will then kindly let you make your bark into a crush’n, which they will then add to your ...
Queue: Yarn Villages
So, for Tuesday here’s another example of random stuff I’ve been meaning to get around to. I don’t know if anyone knows this, it seems to me to be something of an embarrassing secret, but I have a secret fondness for miniatures. It ...
Sweaters in the Queue
Continuing with the theme idea, Tuesdays I’ve entitled In the Queue. These are all projects I’ve wanted to do, but have never gotten around to doing, or perhaps at the time didn’t have the skills to complete. I have many, many, ma...
Enjoyment
I found some things in the past week of blog-reading that I’ve really enjoyed, and so I’ve gathered a few things to share. I AM finishing something myself, however MOVING is taking a bit of my time. For those of you who are curious (1) ye...
Owls, Part 1
Two or three weeks ago I got a request from a colleague of Jeff’s to make a coffee cosy. The original request involved a suggestion of pink and purple, but as the day wore on it became apparent that she really wanted animal face of some sort. A...
A Problem of Fit
In the evenings, I’ve been sitting in the fading light, watching Bones on my computer and working on my sweater. Which will be done long before October, and therefore long before I can wear it. But I ran into a problem that might make it take l...
Is she looking at me accusingly?
I suspect it’s becaue she knows I started a new project when I’ve already got half a dozen in the works. I think my next post might have to be a “confession” post about everything I’ve got going, and the stage it’s...
Flowers for my Mom
This past weekend Jeff and I made a trip to Houston to visit our respective mothers. Since I work on Mother’s Day, we were a week late, but the love is still there, right? So for this past Mother’s Day I decided to make my mother a gift o...
The crafting skills, they are not new
So in Austin, if you are not familiar with our fine (hot) city, we have many unique phenomena - the Alamo Drafthouse, various Kerbey Lanes, BookPeople (the only bookstore whose religion section I don’t laugh at), the Town Lake Trail (we like ou...
Why it’s called “crafting”: Flower Afghan
Last night at about 1:30 am I finally finished my daisy flower afghan. I’m quite pleased with the way that it turned out, which is really lovely, because putting that much time and effort into something you felt ambivalent about would be dist...
This and that and a few threads
There are six columns in my flower afghan and eight rows. 48 granny squares. 4 borders each. When I am done with this thing, I’m going to count approximately how many stitches there are in the entire thing. Squares, borders, the whole t...
Adding another few inches
Work is doing a bit of eating my lunch at the moment, but I have made time for a bit of craft anyway. I know better than to abandon it totally. I will never be an all work and no play sort of person. So in the evenings I have been putting brown borde...
Shell Stitch Baby Blanket
So that project I wasn’t mentioning: I’ve been spending my time making a little blanket for a friend who is having her first baby. I finally gave it to her today so now I can talk about it! I had lots of fun making this, it was a ne...
A Lake Blue Cardigan
May I introduce my first piece of crocheted clothing, the lake blue cardigan. Or at least, the back of it. I’ve also finished the front two pieces, but have not as yet managed to replace the batteries in the camera so a picture of said piece...
On the road, or rather, tracks
Greetings from the train! I am on vacation this week traveling via Amtrak to visit my grandparents from Iowa. The train is awesome, I don’t get much opportunity down in the southern areas to travel this way. I find trains very conducive to cra...
The Benefits of Organization, or How I Always Lose Stuff
Last spring I wrote down the pattern I made up for the brown squares that will go in my flower afghan. When I decided to stop working on the blanket for the summer, I put everything - yarn, finished squares, crochet hook and pattern pieces into a b...
6 hours of canning later
Sometimes, one cannot post because one is literally up to one’s elbows in the actual craft, and cannot come to the computer. Such was Sunday, when I spent three hours peeling peaches and feeling the sticky juice drip down my arms. But I will ...
Small is not Easy (but 3 of 5 are done)
Months ago, while I was in the midst of crocheting and stitching large afghans, I opined that I ought to do some small projects, like animals or something. The idea was to do things I could complete quickly, thinking it might somehow be easier. S...
Patience, that virtue thingy
My level of patience is, you know, declining. I am making a stuffed toy. It is a present for someone. This toy is taking a crazy amount of time because there are so many tiny little picky details. Did I mention the details are tiny? And there a...
Crafting for Charity: Shelly Tucker, Storyteller and Share A Square
If you’ve been reading this blog for a month or more, you know I was involved in Share A Square, a charity afghan project. I’ve posted a fair bit about it, beginning with my original post on February 12, continuing on February 19, Februar...
Crocheted 365 Project
You guys use Flickr? I’m halfway an addict, and I know quite a number of people who are (or were) doing 365 Projects (a picture a day for a year) or 52-week Projects (you can guess what that is). I like to randomly click on pictures of people I...
Things of Interest
A few things I ran across in catching up with my blog reading. I was depressed about my blogs - the reader finally gave up counting and said I had 1000+ posts to read. Erf. Reading blogs is one of the best parts of my day, I miss it when I can’...
Finished! (2 of 5)
Hi again! Still spotty on the appearances here, eh? Meh, that’s just how May goes. Last year I took this week off entirely, and I now vividly recall the reasons for that decision. However, my next vacation is not for some months yet, so I...
Musings
My mother-in-law, Jennifer, is something of an animal nut. Those ducks right there? They are in her back yard. They were migrating and landed there. She’s feeding them. Now there are 28 of them. All we get are the occasional raccoon...
Crafting for Charity - *Happy Dance!* I’m done!
I’ve got just bunches of stuff to show y’all this week, but first, since it’s Charity Tuesday - My Share-A-Square Afghan is finished, complete, done, and over!! It’s on its way back to Shelly with a little cloth bag for the ta...
