Hey there! How are you!?! I’m feeling invigorated this week! I took last week off for a staycation. After a long, lazy summer, I had some housekeeping to do. Fall is my favorite season, and September through December are my busiest/funnest months of the year. I like to head into this time prepared, so I can really enjoy it. Chris and I spent the week cleaning, hanging art, setting up the bones of my art studio, and getting out Halloween decorations. And we topped it off with a concert! We saw...
12 days ago • 1 min read
Hello! Friday again! How was your week? I have one more ear to put on my Cat Hat! Wait ‘til you see what I did. 🫣 When I took it out to finally finish, there were 3 sizes of needles in the project bag. And I, of all people, didn’t have a project sheet in there with the details! But I did remember taking a picture to show you my progress previously. So I got out the picture and all the needles in my project bag, and compared them! It actually worked!!! So then I started picking up the stitches...
26 days ago • 1 min read
Hello, and happy Friday! I hope you've had a good week! I did finish my cat hat, but I haven’t added the ears yet. 👎🏼 The ears are actually my favorite part of this pattern! I feel so clever because the ears stand up on their own and don't flop over after wearing it all day. You can see in the photo, I'm also starting to knit myself a box full of scrunchies. 🤣🤪 I've been wearing my hair in a high ponytail every day and alternating between two of my favorite scrunchies: one that matches my...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hello! Another week has flown by! Did you work on anything fun this week? I started and almost finished my new Cat Hat sample. As you can see from my margin notes, I missed something right from the start. 🤣🤪 This pattern has a set up row where you add a couple of stitches after the ribbing and I completely forgot them! I thought to myself “it’s no big deal, I’ll just skip 2 decreases on the first decrease round.” Which I totally remembered to do. 💪🏼 But then when I was placing stitch markers...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey there! How has your week been? I’m feeling so much lighter this week. I finally did it. I broke up with the bamboo yarn for good. I’m so much happier. Now that I’m free to start something I actually want to make, I’m going to start a new sample of my Cat Hat. It’s due for a refresh in a different yarn. My plan is to use some leftover Germantown worsted that I have on hand. I’ll let you know how it goes next week. If you missed it last week, I made a new free resource for you. It’s called...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey there! How have you been? I hope you're getting more knitting done than I am! 🤣🤪 I'm just going to blame it on summer! I did do a different creative thing, though. I made you something! It's called The Rule Breaker's Permission Slip and Finishing Matrix. And it also has a Frog Log inside! My favorite part is the Finishing Matrix. It's a tool to help you decide just how much effort you should put into weaving ends, blocking, etc. for any particular project. You know I like to cut corners...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello, how are you!?! Are you working on anything fun? I’d love to hear about it. Send pics! I finally finished the front (or back) of the bamboo mesh sweater. I think I’m just going to make it sleeveless so I can be done with it sooner. I’ve tried so many different things with this bamboo yarn. I’m never going to like it. I’ll either use the rest on something like fringe or tassels, or I’ll give it to one of my kids who crochet. At least I know I gave it a fair shot before breaking up with...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey there! How was your week? Mine started with an endoscopy, so I’m about two days behind right now. Here’s Bruno doing his impression of my Monday and Tuesday: Since I didn’t do a single interesting thing this week, I came up with something else fun to share! I’ve been getting tons of emails from the Disney store about the Haunted Mansion and Toy Story 5 lately. So here’s a couple of my patterns inspired by those. They are a couple of my favorites. Click the photos to read more about them...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello! Here we are again! Another Friday, another chance to knit all weekend! 🤣 Maybe it’s a long weekend for 4th of July for you? I have to work Friday and Sunday, but you can bet I’m going to make some progress on the bamboo sweater on Saturday! I got to try a new sewing stitch this week. You know how sometimes when you’re thrifting and you're looking for something specific, you can get so excited when you find it that you forget to inspect it? Just me? 🤪 Well, I was looking for long skirts...
3 months ago • 1 min read