Craft Room Update

Kate finally gets a craft room, with purposeful furniture. Out with the old, in with the new.

Project and Life updates

I have survived my first semester of MBA classes and managed to keep up with some of my projects in the meantime, but as you can tell, I didn’t get around to blogging quite as much as I wanted to. I have a two-week hiatus until classes started up again for the summer and so…

Christmas Gift reveal and personal update

Hi Everyone! All the gifts have been given and I got a lot of smiles when they opened the presents, so I consider that a big win! Check out my last two posts for some of the other reveals, this one is sharing all of the other ones (except one, I didn’t get a good…

Marathon Crafting complete!

With a week to spare, I have completed all the gifts I planned on making this holiday season. I am so elated to finally start on something for me (despite how grinchy that sounds!). Here’s a few of the gifts I finished up.   Beholder Helm My brother sent me a post from another crafty lady’s…

Winter is Coming…. Holiday Gift finishing marathon

I hope some of you can relate: I am hurrying to finish my way too optimistic number of homemade gifts this holiday season. I’ve got about 3/4 of them made, and I’d like to share them with you in the next couple of weeks–because heavens knows my family and friends don’t know I blog, haha. I just…

TILTED Tuesday! November 3rd update…. (yes, it’s NOVEMBER already)

Welcome back to the “Things-I’d-Like-To-Eventually-Do” Tuesday! Stepping away from patterns on crochet and knitting stuff for once, I’d like to cover the one thing that I would LOVE to eventually do: Organize my craft room! Oh Boy! I have so many pages in IKEA earmarked for this huge project, it’s really kind of sad haha….

TILTED Tuesday! Flowers by HappyPattyCrochet

Welcome back to this week’s “Things-I’d-Like-To-Eventually-Do” post! Today, I’d like to focus on these B-E-A-U-tiful flower designs I’ve been looking at for quite a while and would love to have enough time to actually make them. To save some time and risk repeating myself over and over, all of these designs are by one person:…

TILTED Tuesdays! October 20th Installment

Welcome back to the “Things-I’d-Like-To-Eventually-Do!” Tuesday blog post! This week we’ll focus on the always stunning crochet and knit skirts/dresses. I would absolutely love to make these things for myself, but I just know deep down I probably shouldn’t wear them. I definitely could alter the designs to make them a-frame that is actually pretty…

TILTED Tuesday – Oct 13th edition

Welcome back to the “Things-I’d-Like-To-Eventually-Do” Tuesday!  This week we’ll focus on shawls I’d like to learn how to knit! I learned how to knit in August at the free Stitches Midwest class in the bazaar, and it’s been a whirlwind learning experience for two months, but I definitely am a 100% NOOB. I’m really excited to…

Inaugural TILTED Tuesday!

Hi everyone, I’d like to start a new segment of my blog called “Things-I’d-Like-To-Eventually-Do” (TILTED) Tuesdays! In it you’ll see my idealized projects I’d really, really love to work on but just don’t have the time to do right now—knit and crochet. I might also branch off into other genres of crafting and my every-day…

In Defense of Free and Paid Patterns

I am a thrifty individual on a tight budget. Hopefully that will change soon, but if you’re anything like me, then you’re always looking for a sale or a way to save for the stash. There’s a lot of people who love the free patterns on Ravelry, and I’m one of them. But there are…

Left in Stitches

So I’m currently at Stitches Midwest in Schaumburg, IL! It’s amazing! I’ve never been to a crafting convention ( only the nerdy gaming ones) and I think I’m HOOKED! I’ve also never really been to a knit n bitch type of group either and I guess I’ve always done my crafts in solitude. And while…