Mini Apple Pies!

I have been thinking about apples. Apples, apples, and more apples! I love me a great baked apple, and these are one of my most absolute favorites. (Wow that’s not a proper sentence at all.) What happens when you take this stuff: (Ready made roll dough, thinly sliced apples, pats of butter, white and brown…

An applied I-chord tutorial

Hi friends! I am releasing a pattern in a couple of weeks, and there is going to be an i-chord option. To celebrate, enjoy this free picture tutorial - hopefully a video tutorial to follow shortly. You are working around the brim from right to left. You will use the yarn weight and needle size…

Quick handmade Christmas gift part III: little friends.

Hey folks, I am on *fire* with keeping up with this series! Today's handmade gift is these little friends. They are absolutely adorable, addicting, and simple to knit. They take about three hours start to finish, and that's including when I am adding customization. All of them use knitpicks wool of the Andes and size…

Quick handmade Christmas Gifts: part II – ornaments & decorations

Hi folks! Today we will be talking ornaments and decorations. Ornaments are so quick to knit and a lot of them are pretty simple. For all of these projects I use Chiagoo, (long enough for magic loop for the gnomes). The first thing we are going to discuss are these Mini Elf Hat and Beards…

Quick hand made Christmas gift: part I – mice

Hi there, three years later! I am so very terrible at keeping up with this blog thing. Anyways, moving on. I am popping in to start a small series of posts - quick and easy handmade gifts for the people in your life. (By easy I mean with a small amount of knitting knowledge -…

No Spend November, week two.

Hello, hello my friends! If anyone at all is reading this, welcome back! I don't feel as though I did that well this week, I did make a few purchases I didn't need. I think I feel as though I did very poorly because I had some purchases to make that aren't things I would…

No Spend November – it’s back!

Well, here we are again. The beginning of November. Every year, I always exclaim that I can't believe it's already here! Yet here is comes, predictable and unchangeable as ever. To view previous No Spend November posts, Click here. As you can see, I always start off strong with documenting, but then fizzle out. Well,…

Protein Brownie Mug Cake

Who doesn't love an easy, yummy, quick protein filled mug cake? I know I sure love it. (Please excuse my nails, I have been dyeing yarn.) Let's jump right in! Ingredients: 2 tablespoons Arrowhead Mills protein flour (5 grams protein)1 tablespoon monk fruit sugar1 scoop Quest Nutrition milkshake protein powder (22 grams protein)1 egg (6…

Black Visions Collective – Bunny Raffle

Hand knit cream bunny in blue dress https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/ The state of this country is heart breaking to me. So many people are fearing for their lives daily, only because of the color of their skin. I have spent the last little while sharing my fear, confusion, and sadness. I can share all the links, pictures…

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

I am so close to finishing another pattern. I just want to knit one more sample for photos! It doesn't help that I just started playing World of Warcraft again - which is the world's biggest time suck. So, I figured I'd pop in and share some of my favorite things! Hedgegog Fibres is one…