Posted in Books, Crochet, Finished Objects on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t think I ever showed these off. Cupcakes are a common pattern with many, many ways to make them, but this pattern comes from the Vegan Goddess of Amigurumi, BitterSweet. Her blog not only has knitting and crochet patterns, but also gorgeous photography of food and other forms of crafting like sewing. She even [...]
Posted in Books, Knitting, Work in Progress on August 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It was either Monday or Tuesday that I got it in my head to start looking around for yarn to make Alice. I went to Micheal’s first and looked at the yarn, mostly the Lion Brand Cotton-Ease. At first I wanted to make it red and black like the pattern, but Cotton-Ease has charcoal, not [...]
Posted in Blog, Books, Yarn on June 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I don’t think I ever talked about Stephanie Pearl McPhee’s book, Knitting Rules. Actually, she has more than one, but this is the only one that I have so far. I’m mentioning her now because I just read her blog, and it reminded me how much I love being in this knitting community online, and [...]
Posted in Books, Crochet on June 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen anything decent for crochet in the form of a published book since, well, actually since I bought Debbie Stoller’s Happy Hooker book back in 2005. The one that I learned to crochet with. So I was really excited to hear about this:
Crochet Me: Designs to Fuel [...]
Posted in Books, Knitting, Work in Progress on April 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I haven’t mentioned it before, but I also write reviews for a friend’s gaming site, Critical Hits, as Elena99. I scrolled down today to look at the past posts, and there is a knitting book in the Amazon.com ads. For Wendy Knits, which I don’t own. CH has nothing to do with knitting, I’m sure [...]
Posted in Books, Knitting, Yarn on March 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Even though I don’t have the book yet, I joined the knit-a-long:
I signed up under the name Amethyst, but haven’t posted yet.
No Sheep for You, as the name implies, is a pattern book that focuses on fibers that do not come from sheep; cotton, linen, soy, bamboo, hemp, corn, rayon, seacell and modal. There are [...]
Posted in Books, Crochet, Knitting on February 25, 2007 | No Comments »
I work in a call center, and one of the programs (which I have vowed never to work for, because it has the worst people calling in) is Reader’s Digest. During this past week, they were selling RD products in the lunch room; music, DVDs, books, pens, etc. Unfortunately, this started early in the morning, [...]
