This day has been two years in the making. Two years ago, I published the first pattern in the Spring Blossoms Pattern set, and today, I finished the last. The Spring Peony Blanket Pattern is now live and for sale on my Etsy shop. Not only that, but you can instead choose to purchase a… Continue reading Spring Peony Blanket and Spring Blossoms Bundle (Paid Pattern)
I heard the statement lately (somewhere on the Internet, source unverified) that the expected pandemic baby boom had not happened. That’s not what I see from my point of view. In my small homeschool community group I have five pregnant mamas! Five! Well, currently four as the first of the babies has already arrived. We… Continue reading Baby Boom (Part 1)
If you look at my 2020 Temperature Blanket, you would have no idea that we lived through a pandemic, that our normal has changed, that our vacations were canceled, that we cover our faces in public now. Maybe that’s indicative of where our hope should lie in “times like these”—in our one constant in all… Continue reading Out with the Old
When a friend asks you to make something for them, you say, “OK.” When they pay you to make something, there’s pressure to do it just right. A friend asked me to make her some pot scrubbers, but I couldn’t just do that. I needed to make her a dishcloth too. I was happy enough… Continue reading Ridged Dishcloth and Pot Scrubber (Free Pattern)
I started this pattern a few years ago. I took the method of joining from my Colorblock Blanket and added some snazzy touches. I’m not sure why I put it down, but it probably was because I ran out of yarn. I unearthed it a while ago when I was cleaning my yarn room (sorry,… Continue reading Hearts and Crosses (Paid Pattern)
I love a good corner-to-corner blanket when I’m using one color of yarn. It is an easy pattern and makes weaving in the ends so easy. But I also love a good graphgan, and the corner-to-corner blanket is the perfect vehicle. I hate weaving in ends. It’s no secret. I’ve talked about it before, but… Continue reading Spring Iris Blanket (Paid Pattern)
These are indeed strange times we are living in. We are told to stay home to keep everyone safe from the COVID-19 virus. For our family, this wasn’t much of a stretch. We already homeschool. My husband already works from home. What is different is having to go to church online, moving co-op classes online,… Continue reading Spring Tulip Blanket Pattern (Paid)
The Lion Brand I Wanna Make a Blankie yarn is so soft and squishy I want to carpet my whole house in it and make yarn angels on the floor. It seriously is like a big, warm hug. I had so much fun making the Squishy Square Baby Blankie that I decided to take my… Continue reading Squishy Round Baby Blankie (Free Pattern)
Lion Brand came out with a new yarn in a cake bigger than most people’s heads. I Wanna Make A Blankie yarn is made with the idea that one cake of yarn is all it takes to make a baby blanket. The yarn comes with one knit and one crochet pattern on the label. Easy… Continue reading Squishy Square Baby Blankie (Free Pattern)
It took a year, but I finally have a name or my 2019 Temperature Blanket. I’m calling it the Split-Square Temperature Blanket. When I started it at the beginning of the year, I had a vision for what it would be, but I had no idea how it would actually turn out. It turned out… Continue reading 2019 Temperature Blanket: Finished
