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For 2022, I wanted to do a temperature scarf by taking the high temperature from each day in 2022 and then knitting a row in a certain color to represent that temperature range. The first roadblock is that I’m not a knitter but thought this might be a good opportunity to learn. The second road…
Continue ReadingFor Christmas, I made several plain crocheted snowballs adding safety eyes and a little orange nose to make adorable snowmen. One niece loves cows, so I took that plain crocheted snowball and did a few freehand modifications to come up with a cow snowball. They made a perfect little Christmas happy.
Continue ReadingIt doesn’t take long for charging cords to become a tangled mess. I got tired of digging through a mountain of cords and unraveling them all to find the one I needed. In the past, I had used a piece of yarn to keep cords together but decided to upgrade that idea with something that…
Continue ReadingNow that I’ve been back home for a few weeks, I’m slowly going through everything that I wanted to share of Christmas projects. One of my nieces loves the color purple and her favorite animal is a cow. When I came across this cute cow pattern, I immediately bought it thinking this would be a…
Continue ReadingFor the past couple of years, I’ve been trying to de-stash as much yarn as possible. I find that part of the enjoyment of making a project is buying the yarn, so I am working towards not having much yarn on hand. Every once in a while I find chunky yarn on sale and buy…
Continue ReadingIt’s a new year and one project that I have been wanting to do is a temperature blanket. The basic idea behind the temperature blanket is that you create a color legend for a range of temperatures assigning a certain color for each one. Then you track the temperature each day for a year and…
Continue ReadingThis may not be the healthiest of traditions but sometimes we partake in ‘Ice Cream Thursday.’ We go buy us each a pint of ice cream and enjoy it to the last spoonful. I have the biggest sweet tooth so I just can’t stop after a few bites and holding that pint for so long…
Continue ReadingIt’s so nice to crochet a little something that makes a money gift special. My daughter has hit the age where she is extremely hard to buy for and so are her friends. When she was invited to a birthday party, I knew the go-to-gift would be money but wanted to present it in a…
Continue ReadingWhat has been on the crochet hook this week? Absolutely nothing! It makes me sad to realize that I haven’t crocheted anything in this past week. Just today I was thinking that I need to plan my Christmas crochet projects as some I have started and need to finish. So I might be working on…
Continue ReadingThis year I have been working on Halloween goodies to give trick-or-treaters. Usually I make some small amigurumis to give out with candy, making around 20 items. This year we are in a larger neighborhood, so my goal is to have 100 small items to pass out with candy. When choosing to make a Halloween…
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