I will no longer be continuing Cute Crochet and Knifty Knit, but fear not!

T’was a week before Christmas, and I needed size 10 double pointed knitting needles for a sweater I had been commissioned to make. I did not have any, so that left me with two options.

I finished this sweater at the beginning of the school year, but I thought I would share the process now, since it is seasonally appropriate to wear a sweater.

Today I learned the valuable lesson on what happens when you do not check your gauge. . . .My plan was to crochet a pair of booties this afternoon, write about how it went, and even list them on the website. But of course, that is not what happened.

I am not a poet, but I wrote one anyway. Can you solve the riddle?

I decided that I wanted to make more stockings in other patterns. I browsed Amazon and found two books I liked. Naturally I assumed that I would have no problem making a new pattern after making eight stockings, even after I always messed up the stockings at the same spot. 

There is now a “Commissions” tab in the menu bar at fbdartistry.com where you can submit your own idea. I would love to work with you to make the image in your head a reality!

Find out if I was truly koalafied to knit this project.

As a child, I devised many clever money making schemes. . . . My most clever scheme has to be selling candy to my siblings. I made about $27 one year, but unfortunately that enterprise had to be shut down due to the high amount of theft that occurred.

This is my project bag. There aren't many like it, and this one is mine. It’s name changes depending on what is in it. When it contains a knitting project, it is my knitting bag. When it contains a crochet project, it is my crochet bag. On the rare occasion that I decide to travel with embroidery or a small sewing project, it becomes my sewing bag. I take it with me almost everywhere.

Crocheting and knitting can be used for a wide variety of projects: the only limitations are your imagination and your budget.

I went to A.C. Moore one afternoon for a much needed escape. To my chagrin, there was a sign on the door announcing that they were closed for a few days due to some mechanical problem. I went back a week or so later, and to my horror, the sign on the door said that they were closed for good!

Fall is here! With the cold weather it is the perfect time for hats and scarves. I love hats! They combine my three favorite things: fun to make, practical, and enjoyable to show off— provided your design is head and shoulders above the rest.

When I was thinking of an idea for this blog, I had aspirations of sharing comical stories about times I have messed up while crocheting and knitting. “But I don’t make that many mistakes,” I said to myself. I guess I jinxed myself because I have made a few substantial mistakes recently. In the words of my dear friend, “I’m not superstitious, I’m just a little stitious.”

To buy or nor to buy, that is the question.

Hamlet may have reached the ultimate question about the human condition, but surely he was only one step away from discovering what really matters in life: yarn.

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