We’ve had a very mild winter in Western Pennsylvania. The joke here is that we say goodbye to the sun in November and don’t see it again until March. This year, winter couldn’t decide if it wanted to be winter, summer, or fall. These two blankets are warm and cool–just like the weather. This was… Continue reading Warm and Cool Blankets (Just Like the Weather)
I am not a quilter. I do not draw. I don’t have the best attention to detail. In the past, I have bought fleece off the bolt, measured it out, cut it, used a special rotary cutter, and did my best to make it look like an acceptable crochet-edged fleece blanket. The truth is, if… Continue reading Taking the Edge
The Lion Brand I Wanna Make a Blankie yarn is so soft and squishy I want to carpet my whole house in it and make yarn angels on the floor. It seriously is like a big, warm hug. I had so much fun making the Squishy Square Baby Blankie that I decided to take my… Continue reading Squishy Round Baby Blankie (Free Pattern)
It’s tax season. This means I’ve been giving my finances an extra hard look. I’ve decided to transition my items for sale from my Etsy shop to this page. I now have a shop right here! You can purchase made items or printable PDFs for patterns–a real one-stop shop.
Lion Brand came out with a new yarn in a cake bigger than most people’s heads. I Wanna Make A Blankie yarn is made with the idea that one cake of yarn is all it takes to make a baby blanket. The yarn comes with one knit and one crochet pattern on the label. Easy… Continue reading Squishy Square Baby Blankie (Free Pattern)
Mild. That’s what I would call 2020 so far in terms of weather. We’ve had very little snow, temperatures above normal, and even some sunshine—unheard of in January in Western PA. Having finished my 2019 Temperature Blanket (Split-Square Temperature Blanket) a week ago, it seemed time to finally begin my 2020 project. Tonight, I caught… Continue reading Rising Temperatures: Temp Blanket 2020
It took a year, but I finally have a name or my 2019 Temperature Blanket. I’m calling it the Split-Square Temperature Blanket. When I started it at the beginning of the year, I had a vision for what it would be, but I had no idea how it would actually turn out. It turned out… Continue reading 2019 Temperature Blanket: Finished
It’s hard to believe that tomorrow is a new day, a new month, a new year, and a new decade all rolled into one. I have plenty of crochet plans to keep me going all year long. I have many old crochet projects to complete. In the meantime, I thought it would be fun to… Continue reading 2019: Year in Review
Someday I will end the year with my temperature blanket done. This is not the year. I am, of course, waiting for more yarn to arrive. It turns out that the 50-60 range of temperatures is often featured as a low or high, so I’ve nearly run out of all of my yellows. What is… Continue reading 2019 Temperature Blanket
A friend of mine recently had a baby. This is not an unusual occurrence in this stage of my life. But she had kept her pregnancy off of social media, so while I knew about it, I had no idea when she was due. There was a blanket that I saw that was perfect for… Continue reading A Little Baby and a Whole Lot of Yarn
