pick up sticks – a DPN needle and crochet hook organizer tutorial

I was talking with my cousin the other day about what we knitters (and crocheter’s) need that is not readily available. I puzzled and thought and sketched, and in the end came back to a simple needle/hook organizer. If you are anything like me, your needles are sitting in a rubbermaid bin, twisted and jumbled […]

i’m hooked – my first sew-together bag

Months ago, eons really, I bought a pattern. And I read it, and re-read it and watched so many beautiful versions of this pattern pop up on Instgram. But, despite having sewn literally 100+ zipper pouches in the past year, this pattern terrified me. It’s the “sew-together bag“, by Sew Demented. But here we are. […]

A Scrappy Norway Quilt

For Fall Quilt Market, Camille Roskelly of Simplify released a gorgeous quilt pattern called “Norway“. I immediately added it to my “one day” list. I just love the blocks. My initial plan had been to make it the way the pattern indicated, with each block dedicated to a fabric. But then I started thinking about […]