Recycled craft projects jut got cuter with this book from Japan. Here is my photo of the project on the cover of the book Sock and Glove.

Knitting meets social networking! Introducing the Holy Grail of knitting sites, and the future template for craft networking and possibly even personal information management online. If you love knitting, crochet, craft or are an organizational PIM nut -read on for the next big online social networking phenomenon.

I found the cutest knitting pattern book for bears. These are pretty simple to knit and make great gifts! I’ve had great responses when I present one as a gift. The sweater patters in my other “new find book” are really, really simple and knit up fast on large needles!

Do you want to make something out of recycled clothes, old plastic bags or an old thrift store sweater? Even if you don’t -now you know there are actually interesting, practical and cool patterns out there to tempt you. I love the idea of converting waste into art or practical new uses -so here are […]

So often when i need inspiration i look to the internet to get me jump started. Its Mothers day and I have work to do on my computer before i go over to my Grandmothers place to celebrate. She turned 90 in February and she is such an important part of our family.Of course I […]

I have finally finished this UFO! (unfinished object) I started while learning to knit and finished the second slipper with a different cuff -one with rib and the second with seed stitch and i don’t care. They are cozy and i made em!!! They are not much to look at, but now i will knit […]

I need simple in my life and I need simple in my creative life to really enjoy myself. So here is my approach to the simple, granny square. Firstly the granny square -at least my simple one, breaks down into corners, edges and spaces.
The corners of the square are made up of 2 clusters of […]

Ok -so I am getting the hang of granny squares. I was adding 2 single crochet between all clusters of 2 double crochet. The result was a bit bunchy looking. I ended up using one single crochet on the sides between clusters and then 2 between the clusters on the corners. I think I […]

When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.”
People did not like it here.
-Kurt Vonnegut
I enjoyed reading Breakfast of Champions when I was a young teenager and then read Galapagos . Both I found very […]

photo ftom: knitgarden
I am still learning to crochet. I am hummin’ along with my crochet blanket -but I am still dropping and adding the odd stitch at the turns, its good practice I keep telling myself, but dam it’s disappointing when ya hold up the thing and it veers off into oblivion. If I […]