I am on a mission to make pillows this year. I see so many that I love around and in the shops. (And they are EXPENSIVE!) So I am going to take it on and sew a bunch. The first pillow in a Year Of Pil...
Feb 23, 2016
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Ok, so now we have measure our hands and knit our gauge swatch. We’ve turned those number into the rows and stitches we need for our mittens and charted out our hands. This week we are going to ...
Feb 22, 2016
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For this challenge our prompt was G is for…. Well, G is for girls, sweater girls!
When I was in Iceland in December, my friend Lori found this artist, Heavenly Hosts, who carved these sweet litt...
Feb 16, 2016
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This week, we will be taking our numbers from last week and turn them into a custom template for our hand. Get out your worksheet and gauge swatch from last week and let’s get started. (There is...
Feb 15, 2016
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Welcome to our little experiment, a Design Along to create your own custom fit, color work mittens. Let’s get started!
The work you do this week is the most important step towards designing pe...
Feb 08, 2016
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For this Iron Craft challenge we were asked to make something that featured with hearts or flowers. I came up with a cheeky little knit coffee sleeve inspired by conversation hearts.
This is a fun qu...
Feb 02, 2016
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Since July of last year I’ve had fun hosting the Mitten Garland Advent Calendar Knit Along followed by the Winter Snows Mittens Mystery Knit Along. People have been asking me what’s next s...
Jan 29, 2016
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I’m doing my third year of Project 365 (taking and sharing one picture a day everyday) with a fabulous group of people on Facebook. Not only have I met a great group of people all over the worl...
Jan 28, 2016
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My daughter got an American Girl Doll (equivalent) for her birthday. She is LOVING it.
One of the most popular things in our house (and, on the blog) is her mermaid tail snugglie. So I thought I shou...
Jan 26, 2016
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We’ve made it to the last week of January and the last clue for our mittens. Here are my mittens so far, they really need a good blocking!
This week, we’ll be knitting our thumbs and fini...
Jan 25, 2016
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