“Be of Good Cheer” Samplerghan

I’ve been thinking about what my next afghan would be for a while– long before the last one was anywhere near done.  (This is how you know you’re addicted, by the way.) Since I happen to have accumulated a fair amount of red yarn (and have no wish to make a Christmas-themed blanket), it seemed […]

Canadian Breeze Cushion Cover

Motif: Modified version of Motif # 106 from Edie Eckman’s Beyond the Square. I worked the pattern as written through third round, following with a round of sc in each stitch (3 sc in corners). It’s not a difficult motif, at all, but BPdc can be a little messy to work, if you’re not used […]

The Granny Square Book

The Granny Square Book: Timeless Techniques and Fresh Ideas for Crocheting Square by Square by Margaret Hubert Many of the things I most appreciated in Edie Eckman’s Beyond the Square and Around the Corner Crocheted Borders books are also present in this sturdy volume by Margaret Hubert.  If you, like me, love books of crochet […]

Crocheted Cushion Cover

As soon as I finished the last afghan (and thank you for all the kind comments, btw!), I decided my next project should be on a smaller scale.  Even though I already have the yarn set aside for the next blanket (help, I’m addicted), it just felt like an intermission was in order.  And yet […]

50 Fabulous Crochet Squares

50 Fabulous Crochet Squares (Leisure Arts #4420) by Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss This is a book of… 50 crochet squares!  (Who’da thunk it, right?) It’s a 72-page paperback, “staple-bound”, “booklet-style book” from Leisure Arts, and the fifty crochet square patterns are the work of four designers– Jean Leinhauser, Rita Weiss, Janie Herrin, and James […]

Yarn Bombing on Flickr

I was uploading a few photos to Flickr today when I saw that the Flickr blog has put up an entry about yarn bombing.  (So I thought I’d pass along the link.) I’ve never seen any yarn bombing “in the wild”, that I can recall– but then again, I don’t live in or near a […]

Gypsying Afghan = DONE.

Phew!  This one felt like it really dragged at the end, but it’s done, done, done! I washed and dried it this afternoon, then took it out onto the patio for a little photo shoot.  I think I could’ve done better with my photos, but they’ll do to get the point across.  (The darkest colors […]