It’s homecoming season all across the USA! Do you have anything to show off your local school spirit? We didn’t so I whipped up a couple of of these Super Simple Homecoming Scarves. Walmart asked me to come up with a fall craft, and this was perfect–simple, fast and inexpensive. Trust me, even if you… Keep Reading
Easy Sashay Yarn Scarf
I really enjoy knitting–mostly the brainless kind. You know, things where you hands can keep working and your brain doesn’t really have to be there. Something that I can do while having a conversation, watching TV or keeping an eye on a passel of kids in the backyard. Scarfs, washcloths, baby blankets–those kind of things. … Keep Reading
Free Knitting Pattern-Basketweave Blanket
basket weave baby blanket & 5 hour sweater I like to knit, and one of the easiest things for me to work on is a baby blanket. They are a bit of a commitment (it takes me several weeks to finish one if I work every evening-which I usually don’t. Then it can take months)… Keep Reading
The $2.50 Baby Gift
I bought several skeins of variegated pastel baby yarn at the dollar store several months back, and used 2 1/2 skeins to create this blanket and baby sweater: I know this looks white, but trust me, it is pastel variegated. The blanket is a garter stitch border with a 10 stitch/10 row basket weave pattern…. Keep Reading
Crafty Gifts Part II, Knitted Gifts
I’m a knitter, so the first thing that I think of for gifting is knits. ***note: These photos are not my own but borrowed from the websites containing the free patterns. Each photo is linked back to the webpage from which I borrowed it. Now there are plenty of great knitting sites out there with… Keep Reading
Just Shrug
Since I mentioned on my post about Free Knitting Pattern Sites that I was knitting an item for my sister’s birthday (Sis#2-Sis#1 is the one in Plano and Sis#3 is the one deploying to Iraq-in case anyone is keeping track), I just wanted to post a picture here. It is a shrug, which is sort… Keep Reading
Free Knitting Pattern Sites
I like to knit. There is something soothing and sort of Zen about the clicking of needles and knowing that you are spending that time making something that is (hopefully) useful. Personally I prefer fairly mindless knitting. Something I can sort of do on autopilot without having to think to hard about it-so I’ve made… Keep Reading
