When I was younger, my family spent a summer going on a bike ride in the River Valley pretty much every day. For whatever reason, we basically stopped going on rides after that summer, and I rarely got back on the bike after that. Two summers ago, I bought a used cruiser bike off Kijiji, and finally remembered how much I used to love biking around!
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A couple of weeks ago, I picked up a kit for a Hudson’s Bay blanket and cushion set, and I’ve finally gotten around to starting it. On days where I’m not really feeling creative, I like kits because everything is already all laid out for me. I don’t have to pick a pattern or dither about yarn selection. I can just sit down and go. It’s very soothing.
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Despite having started in crochet before diving into knitting, I had never heard of the crochet cast-on technique. It turns out that this cast-on more closely mimics the cast-off edge than a backwards loop cast-on or knitted cast-on. Given that this is a blanket, I really wanted both sides to look as similar as possible, so this seemed like a great technique to try out.
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If you made it through my previous post with all of its weaving terminology, I salute you. This is going to be a lot less dense, I promise. As part of the final steps of finishing the rug, we had to secure the warp ends after they were cut from the loom. We ended up tying them into a super cute twisted fringe!
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I have been dying to do a workshop at Fern’s School of Craft since they opened in 2017, and I was finally able to snag a spot in their rug weaving workshop. It was everything I was hoping it would be, and it made my heart so full. I want to apologize ahead of time for all of the weaving terminology and attempts at explanation in this post, but I’m just really ecstatic about this whole form of crafting.
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This project was the brainchild of my babysitting child, who is now 10 years old and infinitely more creative and artistic than I was at that age. I think she must have been inspired by loot boxes in online games, or maybe the gacha capsule machines in Japan. At any rate, our goal was to create mystery bags filled with her ‘paper stuffies’ so that we could draw for them later in the afternoon.
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It has been such a long time since I’ve made a pie, but when my friend asked me to do a baking date together, I jumped at the opportunity. She wanted to make a full size pie for her coworker, but there were enough leftover scraps for me to make a mini peach pie!
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My mom told me that this was one of the least cute, ugly, unlovable things I had ever made, and she was dead serious when she said it. On one hand, her feedback made me laugh, and on the other, hand I was instantly crushed. I figured that I would write it up anyways, as not all projects can be winners.
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Before adopting Annie, I didn’t really have any experience with pets. Since that time, I’ve started to feel more comfortable around four-legged friends, including both cats AND dogs. My friends have been kind enough to include me on some of their daily dog walks, and it turns out I really dig it.
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This is yet another throwback post, but it reminds me of when I was younger and seemed to have infinitely more time to creative. It was made as part of a crafting blitz for donations, but I remember really loving the texture on the hat, and the ribbing on the brim. The one downside was that the hat seemed a little wide, so it was best suited for a larger headed person.
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