Showing posts with label crafting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafting. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

DIY Treat-Filled Paper Easter Eggs To Send To Your Daughters in College

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I originally published this tutorial over at Crafting a Green World . These treat-filled paper Easter eggs are a low-waste way to celebrate!...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

It Took Me Eight Months To Cross-Stitch Two Things, But I Think I've Got the Hang of It Now!

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Creepy Cross-Stitch: 25 Spooky Projects to Haunt Your Halls by Lindsay Swearingen My rating: 5 of 5 stars I didn’t think that I wanted to...
Monday, October 6, 2025

In Which I Violate the IP of My Kid's College To Make Her Custom Merch

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So yes, I DID violate the IP of the kid's college by recreating their school logo in fabric and appliqueing it to a decorative pillowcas...
Monday, September 8, 2025

Tutorial: Make a Favorite Quote Bookmark

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I first wrote this tutorial for Crafting a Green World way back in 2014. Even if you’ve got a favorite passage from a favorite book, you do...
Monday, April 28, 2025

I Am Now a God of Crochet. Here are My New Fingerless Mitts To Prove It

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Remember how I told you that I could crochet anything, as long as it was rectangular and done in single crochet on hook size K ? I did not l...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

April WIPs, or, Nothing in My Life is Complete

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Okay, *one* thing in my life is complete, because I finished my foster kid quilt last weekend. But do to various stuff and nonsense-- --I s...
Monday, April 7, 2025

I Am Learning to Crochet. Please Admire My Washcloth.

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When I asked the older kid what she wanted to do over Spring Break, she said she wanted to learn to crochet.  I have had no interest in croc...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

I Made Greek Alphabet Blocks from Cardstock, Because Even College Students Learn Better with Manipulatives

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It is completely unsurprising to me that the homeschool kid who knew more about Greek mythology than anyone I have ever met is now a college...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

I Learned a New Trick, and Now I'm Going to Film Myself Crafting Everything

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I have been wanting to figure out how to do the thing that all the cool craft TikTokers do, in which they film a hyperlapse of themselves cr...