Earlier this year my daughter had an assignment to draw a picture of her room. When she showed it to me it all looked as I expected except for a ladybug rug she drew on her floor. When I pointed out that she didn’t have a ladybug rug in her room she told me “But […]
My daughter LOVES dinosaurs. She has a ton of dinosaur books and toys, and has told us she is going to be a paleontologist when she grows up. I knew that I needed to make her something with a dinosaur on it, and decided that a hooded scarf would be a great project for this.
We are finally getting some snow! My kids were very excited about it and wanted to build a snowman. This gave me the idea to create a snowman hat for my daughter to wear while playing in the snow. Of course the snow was starting to melt by the time we got to take pictures
It’s getting close to Christmas so I decided that I needed to create a new ornament for our tree. I love having our tree decorated with homemade ornaments. Between the kids and I we have a lot of them on ours. Today I want to teach you how to make this holly ornament. It is
Unicorns are very big in our house right now, and my daughter has been begging me to make her a hooded scarf with pockets. I decided that the best thing to do would be to combine those two things. The result was this adorable scarf. It isn’t too difficult to make, and made her so
Now that it is fall, we have started decorating for Halloween. I decided to start working on some Halloween themed crafts, and the first thing I made was a jack-o’-lantern scarf for my daughter. This is a very simple orange scarf with a jack-o’-lantern at each end. This scarf is made in a child size,
Early last spring I came across a lot of Heat Wave yarn on clearance. This yarn uses the sunlight to generate heat. I bought some in several colors to make some warm hats and scarves for my family to keep them warm this winter. This pattern is for a very simple scarf that will be
I love to crochet bookmarks. They are a fast project, and require only small scraps of yarn. We always need more bookmarks in our house, because they get lost so fast. They also make a great inexpensive gift. My children’s teachers always love to receive them. I thought that a crochet sunflower bookmark would be
Today I decided to make my daughter a new Animal Crossing themed toy We recently discovered the pitfall seeds in our game, and I thought that she would enjoy having a pitfall seed to play with. Materials: White yarn Red yarn
I recently finished a beautiful baby blanket that I made as a gift for a baby girl recently born into our family. It may be a while before we get to go visit her, but I hope she will love this blanket. I made this blanket to be a toddler sized one so it can
