My son came back from art class with these papers last week. Don’t they look great? A set of stairs with seven generations and a chicken with a beak! His teacher also taught him to make durable construction paper puppets two years ago. After teaching me to make pop-up cards like he did, he proceeded…
My very first post was about a tank top I was making. Its three parts have been finished for some time now. Today I joined the two sides of the front and to the back. The difficulty with fitted knitted garments is the sizing. You can gauge all you want, but this particular piece is…
I checked out a book from the library that has knitting patterns for tiny socks, jumpers, scarves, hats, and cardigans. They require sewing (well, not the scarf), so I have chosen one with just a small amount of sewing, the jumper. I knitted the front this evening after we got home from a late softball…
Yes, this blog is for the crafty part of my life. After spending a lot time out of doors, I took the dark night time hours to work on scrapbooking. Oh wait, I guess I did stop in the huge franchise store to do a free make and take. I left with having spent only…
Here are the tiny sweaters. I used some scrap yarn with a pattern from HeartStrings Fiber Arts. I like the pattern because I work in the round — no finish work! I tried the pattern from Last Minute Knitted Gifts, but I like the HeartStrings pattern better. You can see my younger son in the…