This crochet backpack is the perfect size for holding an iPad plus a few extra small things.


This crochet backpack is the perfect size for holding an iPad plus a few extra small things.

It is hard not to see dragonflies as something mystical and wondrous – they seem to defy gravity with four transparent wings as they glide over hidden pools and near bodies of water. As a totem spirit, the Dragon fly teaches us whim, transformation, and adaptation to enliven our souls

Serentiy, the first crochet fantasy amagurumi that I made from Esther Emaar’s patterns.

Bookkeeping and Accounting in Your Yarn Related Business (BAYYRB). Because both knitting and crocheting are both considered hobbies you are going to have to “prove” to the IRS that your yarn related business is something that you started in order to make money (a profit) from.

Everyone loves mermaids and this has to be the most adorable of all the crochet mermaid patterns available! Finny is designed by Esther Emaar of House of Creations.

Octavia the Octopus is a free crochet amigurumi pattern available from http://www.yarnspirations.com and while the finished amigurumi is really quite lovely I found several flaws in the pattern itself, which was quite disappointing.

Who should read my blog and visit my site? Who is my “target audience”? Why the heck am I blogging anyway? These are all questions that I’m sure anyone who writes a blog asks themselves at least once, after all there are millions of blogs out there in the sea called the internet.

On Christmas Eve when I discovered that all my crochet projects were finished, I broke out a pair of aluminum knitting needles that I’ve had since I was a teenager and a skein of yarn and said to myself “ok, there is no time like the present to teach myself to knit”. Here are a few knitting tips from a crocheter.

Frizzy is a minirumi or a little Fantirumi (little fantasy amigurumi), designed by Esther Emaar of Crochessie/House of Creations. Frizzy is Frozzy’s companion and I finished her early Christmas Eve morning!

Frozzy is a minirumi or a little Fantirumi (little fantasy amigurumi), designed by Esther Emaar of Crochessie/House of Creations. She is designed to be made with 100% Cotton Fingering Weight yarn, a size B (2.25 mm) hook and is crocheted around an empty surprise egg. Here are the modifications that I made to the original pattern, which I hope will help anyone here in the U.S. who wishes to make this lovely Minirumi without the egg and with larger yarn.