KNITTING & CROCHET

Neat

I remember a few times in school we had the chance to make pinback buttons, they were usually generic printed images with a blank area for us to write our name and then the teacher assembled the badge pieces and sometimes we got to pull down the press handle and sometimes not, and sometimes theyContinue reading “Neat”

Back at it

I have a sweater sweet spot, and this favorite from 2018 is now roughly 2″ shy of it. Adding some length to my Ranunculus, I’m using a needle to pick up one of the legs of each stitch around, just below the ribbing prior to unpicking the bind off and ripping back. I love topContinue reading “Back at it”

Not Christmas, but also Christmas.

Only one handmade gift this year and I don’t even know who it’s for. At a complete loss of ideas for a secret gift exchange lead me to buy a bunch of seasonal lottery tickets that were “gnome for the holidays” themed, then deciding hey, let’s just do a whole lucky gnome thing. I didn’tContinue reading “Not Christmas, but also Christmas.”