Hello my friends! Did you enjoy last week’s free crochet pattern? I wish you could feel how soft and huggable the yarn is. Oh wait, you can…Red Heart is sponsoring a giveaway for 5 balls of Baby Hugs Medium ($25 value) in assorted colors!
Of course, even if you don’t win,
Welcome back the Melody’s Mini CAL/KAL!! To see the links to all the posts in this CAL/KAL, check out the first week, here. You can share your progress and chat with others who are creating with us, join my CAL/KAL group on Facebook. Make sure to read this post all the way to the end, there’s a surprise there for you!!
It’s time for those pretty diamonds!! This week we will continue working the hats up to the decrease section, which is marked in both the knit and crochet versions. Melody was super kind to create a knit video and crochet video for the diamond section of this pattern!
I love big hook crochet! Everything gets done so much quicker. You can make a giant rug in a just a few days, and a bag in a day. Well, my friend Dedri happens to feel the same way, and she even wrote a book about it! And what a book!
Big Hook Rag Crochet starts out with a very sweet introductions, goes on to present 25 fabulous patterns by 15 designers, and finishes up with a wonderful section which explains various methods of making rag yarn, and a thorough how-to of most of the sts used in the book.
As you may have figured out, I adore this book.
Hello my friends! I have a rebellious review and giveaway for you today!! My friend Leah has an online shop with Lilla Rose. I’ll let them explain what they make:
The Lilla Rose product line centers around unique, functional, and well made hair jewelry. From our flagship Flexi Hair Clip, we have expanded to Hair Sticks, the Flexi Oh!, Hairbands, and Bobby Pins. From there we rounded the line out with complimentarily designed You-Pins, and Badge Clips.
Well, I took a look at the Flexies (you can see them here), and as much as they looked so wonderful in hair, the rebel in me shouted “Shawl pins, these must be shawl pins!!!” Leah agreed. She also pointed out they would be great “wrapping” around knitting needles or crochet hooks. You could gift someone a nice skein of yarn, some hooks or needles, and a Flexi, all together making a fun scarf or shawl kit with a “pin”.
Happy Tuesday! As promised, I have a review and giveaway of Cloudborn Fibers yarn for you! Cloudborn Fibers is the new yarn line from Craftsy.
Over the past few days, I have been creating with the Baby Alpaca Bulky. I absolutely love it! It’s very soft and warm, great for the cold months coming. It has just enough fuzziness to give it that super soft look, but not
Hello my friends! I love sharing patterns with you, reviewing products, chatting about things here At Home, and all things yarning. However, I really, really, really love sharing ways we can all make the world a little happier, a little healthier, a little friendlier, a little better. That’s what I have to share with you today.
“Cast-Off Chemo! is a charitable program established by yarn industry professionals with the purpose of raising a $1 million ($1,000,000) dollars to fund research that will end the need for chemotherapy in breast cancer treatment and, ultimately, cure potentially all cancers. The funds will support the research work of Dr. David Krag and his team and network of researchers across the US, whose work to date has already benefitted over a million women and men world-wide. The monies raised will enable him and his team to bring this research to the clinical trials, at which point federal funding would become available.” ~ Cast Off Chemo mission statement
Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Would you like to know a way you can help and still get something for your donation? Well, I can tell you 2 ways!
I’m in LOVE!!!
Don’t tell my husband…
OK, you can tell him, I’m pretty sure he won’t be jealous of a set of interchangeable knitting needles.
I hope…
When I attended the TNNA Summer 2015 Needlearts Trade Show last month, I had the pleasure of meeting Steve Butler, the national sales manager for Clover Needlecraft, Inc. We talked a bit, and he asked if I would review some of their new products, including their new bamboo interchangeable Takumi knitting needles. I agreed.
Now, I love to do reviews, but they also cause me a fair amount of stress. I feel an obligation to be honest to my readers. Not only is it in my nature, but it’s the ethical way to be. When I have to review an item, I always hope it will be great. I hate having to find tactful ways of pointing out flaws. And when the item is something as big as a new set of interchangeable knitting needles? Oh, my, do I worry!!
Worrying was awfully silly. These things are AMAZING!!! I have tried several kinds of interchangeable needles in the past. I already owned a full set of one brand, and bits and pieces of a few other brands; so I have an idea of what makes them good and bad. Let’s look at the various parts, and common worries.
First, the needles themselves. They are Takumi bamboo needles, if you have tried the brand before,
Today’s round up features patterns by Woolly Wormhead. Woolly’s patterns are fabulous and fun! They are very unique and beautiful works of art. I had the pleasure of meeting the lovely lady behind these patterns last month, and she is just as unique and fun as her patterns. When I met her, she gave me a coupon code for 1 free pattern and another for 1 free ebook. I asked her if instead of using them for myself, I could hold a giveaway to give them to 2 of you. She said yes! So make sure to read through this whole post so that you can enter the giveaway!
Woolly has both free and sale patterns, mostly knit, but a few crochet. I have done my best to put together a nice selection for you. You can find out more about Woolly Wormhead and her patterns here.
Here are the names and links of each pattern, along with a little something about each of them.
I’m so excited that I get to review another Craftsy class taught by my friend Tamara Kelly of Moogly!
Crochet Essentials: Increases & Decreases is a fabulous class for anyone looking to learn more about…wait for it…increases and decreases. 😉
Actually, it is a wonderful class, and is useful to more than just beginners. Of course, if you are a beginner and want to understand various increases and decreases that you may run into in patterns, this is your class! It is also great for
A while back I received something pretty in the mail from Red Heart. Being fans of sharing, Red Heart and I would like to send one of you the same something pretty. That’s right, it’s a Red Heart giveaway! Would you like to see it?
I really love the new Red Heart bag! It has so many useful pockets and it’s very sturdy. Look at the nifty little digital row counter ring!
