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A Peek at Fairy Tale Fashion
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes This week’s inspiration book is Fairy Tale Fashion by Colleen Hill. I think some people would refer to this as a coffee table book because it meets the definition by being large and well-illustrated. What people forget in classing such things, though, is that many…
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Weekly project updates: Shawl repairs, shawl progress, and a new project
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes This last week has been a very harried week full of hours-long calls to insurance companies trying to work out stupid things that should not have been issues and, more seriously, a car accident. Not mine but a family member. Everyone is fine, but the…
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Crochet in the first three episodes of Season 2 of DS9
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes In my ongoing television and film search for crochet, I am happy to report that season two of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has significantly more crochet than season one. There is so much more that I am not going to do the whole season…
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A Peek at Creature
Estimated reading time: 1 minute Some books stay on my shelves because they are calming and happy and make me feel like being a creative on my own path is a fine thing to be. Creature by Shaun Tan is that book for me. It’s a retrospective look at Tan’s…
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Weekly project update: The Mushroom is finished!
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes I finished my take on Critter Stitch’s Little Mushroom Guy! I am so happy to be done. I think she, mine is a girl, looks pretty good. I hate all of my amigurumi, so that’s really saying something. That my Little Mushroom Gal turned out…
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How to be better at crochet
Estimated read time: 10 minutes So you want to get better at crochet, but you are self-taught and flying along on your own without the benefit of a group. How do you do that? The easiest way is to develop a critical eye so that you can see where your…
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A Peek at The Secret Lives of Princesses
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes This week’s inspiration book post is The Secret Lives of Princesses by Philippe Lechermeier and illustrated by Rebecca Dautremer. My daughters found this at the library when they were much younger, and I purchased a copy for myself because I particularly liked the illustrations. They…
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Weekly project update: Ouch
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Disclaimer: The Little Mushroom Guy is an awesome pattern. I am just bad at amigurumi. This week I learned I am making my last amigurumi project. I have made a few in the past, but it’s not something I make often, nor do I like…
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A woolly bag of solace
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes My daughter Adia was an early reader. She stayed up late at night reading the words she could from The Blue Fairy Book by the hallway light until she mastered the magical world of words. Books became her comfort items, so she always carried a…
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A Peek at Picture This
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes This week I want to share Molly Bang’s Picture This: Perception and Composition with you. I bought this book long ago when my children were in early grade school, and I wanted to have them look more critically at the art in picture books. This…
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