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Loveable Linda
This extremely fuzzy crocheted kitty is waiting to snuggle with you. Find her and other huggable critters in my shop. Thanks for visiting. ...
Steve
My latest crochet critter, Steve, the striped dog. He’s waiting for you at Critter Central. ...
Cool Cards
I have added some new items to my Zazzle shop, the shoes were getting lonely sitting there all by themselves. To keep them company and to fulfill a customer request, I added blank greeting cards fea...
Halloween
I can’t help but notice that Halloween is upon us, everywhere I look is pumpkins, skeletons or black cats. Today in my email I received Lion Brand Yarn’s newsletter and it, too, is decorat...
Introducing Terrance
I have been missing in blog action for a few weeks now. It has been hard for me to return to the computer after toiling away in front of the monitors all day at the job. Besides, all I really want to ...
Custom Crocheted Dog
Is this not the cutest little dog you have ever seen? I think he is, although I must admit I am biased since I am the one who crocheted him. I think I fall in love with every critter I crochet. I am s...
It’s Fair Time!
The Etsy Plush Street Team, of which I am a proud member, is going to the fair these days. We’re in the middle of a two month challenge period of creating plush fair food, fair sideshow attracti...
Stumbling Upon Crochet
Yoola’s fabulous crocheted metal pomegranates: Sriyana’s incredible tapestry crocheted mandelas: Fable’s pretty passionflower purse: emily barletta’s stunning piece center:...
Double Craftiness
Here’s a couple of projects from that seventies series of craft books, Encyclopedia of Crafts, to spark your creative drives. A purse that looks like a house (instructions) and slippers made by ...
Sassy Cat
Not a lot to say today, I’ve had the last week off from the day job and have spent my days sewing, crocheting, and enjoying. Back to work tomorrow. So I’m going to post a few photos of my ...
Fuzzy Crocheted Cat
The Etsy Plush Steet Team, of which I am a member, challenged us to create our version of our favorite childhood toy/plush and then to post about it on the team blog. Here’s what I created and w...
Painting
So I was leafing through one of the 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia of Crafts looking for a project to scan and pdf (is that even a verb?) when I stumbled upon this page. I don’t know why, but th...
Double Fun
Since today is a holiday in the USA and I get paid to stay home and work in my studio, I thought I’d post two Encyclopedia of Crafts projects. One for you softies makers and one for you crochete...
Press Clip
I’ve been so busy with the day job and then my little crafty world at night that I forgot to mention that yesterday I was featured in an article in the Dallas Morning News publication called Qui...
Wild Thing
The Etsy Plush Street Team blog is featuring members’ posts detailing the plush that they each created for the Storybook & Fairytale Project/Challenge. I am a member of that team and have be...
Crochet Floral Centerpiece
My Berroco Knit-Bits arrived in my inbox this week with beautiful crocheted flowers in a centerpiece configuration. Just gorgeous. And what a unique idea. I once made a painted vase and created some ...
Another Crochet Puppy
I have been creating more stuffed drawings lately, but I was in the mood for crochet and feeling sort of in a tropical, fiesta, bright colored kind of mood. I made this puppy and I named him Oscar fo...
Green
I actually have been making stuff, not just peering into the past. I have some new stuffed drawings I created using fun new fabric. I just haven’t taken any photos yet. Soon. If I can tear mysel...
The Encyclopedia of Crafts
I have multiple projects in various stages of incomplete right now and rather than finalize any of them, I’m going to start a new series on my little blog here. The Encyclopedia of Crafts is a 2...
Crocheted Dodecahedron
The newest issue of Berroco’s Knit Bits hit my email inbox and although you’ll find lots of instructions to crochet cute amigurumi critters in this issue, what really jumped up and grabbed...
Fuzzy Dog x 2
The new owner of my crocheted fuzzy dog sent me these pictures of the two dogs meeting. Click on the pic to see a bigger view. Don’t they look great together?...
Fuzzy Dog
Do you remember all the way back to January 10? I wrote about Lion Brand Yarn’s catalog and some other things including the fact that a friend of Mike’s wanted a crocheted version of his d...
Cutest Knit/Crochet Ever
My friend Donna in Atlanta, who is also wishing spring would just hurry up and get here, sent me this pic and I just had to share it with you. This is a friend of Donna’s pet rat Annabell mod...
Another Day, Another Catalog
Do you receive catalogs in the mail that just make you sigh and wish you’d win the lottery? I do. But I never buy a lottery ticket, so no chance I’ll ever win. But when the newest Peruvian...
Meow
I crocheted a striped cat for my sister’s birthday and she’s boxed up and on the way to Cleveland, Ohio. I hope she doesn’t get cold....
Lion Brand Yarn
My mailman delivered the new Lion Brand Yarn catalog to my house today. Since I got home from work, I have been studying the glossy pages from front to back and then all over again. Unfortunately for ...
2008
Here we are, another year begins, the holidays fade into memories. I hope everyone’s festivities were joyful and fun and that the new year will find all healthy, wealthy and wise. Or a close pro...
Tapestry Crochet
I am intrigued. I somehow stumbled upon this website and of course fell in love with her kitty bag. I must try to make one. Don’t you just love it? It almost looks like early Greek symbols of so...
Crocheted Critters
I’m not feeling very verbose these days, so I’m posting a couple of pics of my latest creations. The Siamese kitty was adopted by a New Yorker and the little lilac pup is still waiting in ...
Critter Ornaments
Well after two posts about ornaments I figured it was time for me to make a couple of my own. Last year I crocheted a bunch of ornaments and gifted them away. The year before I sewed and embroidered ...
