• Blog,  Patterns

    A Perfect Cozy Throw: The Chunky Textured Blanket

    This post contains some affiliate links, which at no extra cost to you gives me a small payment for referring you to their website if you make a purchase. Long, long ago a friend asked if I would make her a new blanket for her couch. Originally just to throw on the couch and maybe for the dog to sit on. I had her choose the yarn, giving the direction that it should be washable and super bulky. Washable because kids & dog of course, super bulky because a throw in any other weight would be a very long-term project! As it turned out, it became a pretty long-term project…

  • Blog,  Free Patterns

    Tree-rrific Christmas Stocking

    Scroll down for the FREE pattern, or get the inexpensive ad-free PDF in my shop! I’d had a vague idea for a stocking for a few months, but wasn’t sure I would get to it this year. Then last month when I was visiting my best friend we were talking about stockings with her husband, and how their about-to-be-born baby didn’t have one yet. Both of them have stockings that were made for them and I offered to make one for the new baby! The dad-to-be requested that it be green, which immediately put a variation on this design in my head. That one didn’t quite work out, but it…