Good day, fellow crafters! Summer is on its way, and it's baby shower season!  If you're looking for a quick, easy, and beautiful handmade gift to make for a little one, perhaps you can try out this cute pair of shoes! The Baby's Soft Shoes pattern provides instructions for crocheting a simple…

Dear fellow crafters, Does this beanie look familiar to you?  It's the Baby's Lacy Beanie !  But wait -- there's more!  This time around, I've added a Puff Stitch Flower applique, which I personally think gives it a nice, springtime touch! As previously mentioned, the Spring season is one o…

Hi friends! I've been having a fun time crocheting the  Rainbow Ripple Baby Blanket , which is an absolutely  beautiful design by  Celeste Young Designs .  Believe it or not -- it's my very first blanket project, and the biggest crocheted piece I've ever made!   (About time I tackled something other …

Dear lovely crocheters, I'm so happy to announce the completion of Sweet Softies' fifth pattern test: the Hudson Bay Cat & Coney Island Bear design!  Hooray!  Big cheers for my super hard-working testers!!  For this test, I had four testers: two worked on the Hudson Bay Cat pattern, and two o…

Okay guys... I must apologize for this small and spontaneous post, but I just feel too passionately about this and can't go on without expressing my feels any longer.  I must announce how obsessed I am with these beautiful pastel colors.  I can't stop looking at it and admiring it. I'm officially sm…

Dear fellow crocheters, I just received my very first online shipment of yarn ordered from Lionbrand.com !  You might not know this, but I've never actually ordered from an online yarn store before!  I'm accustomed to getting my yarns in-person at physical stores, where I can see and feel the yarns be…

The Hudson Bay Cat and Coney Island Bear Patterns provide written instructions with photo references for crocheting these two charming and oh-so-soft stuffies.  Both Hudson Bay Cat and Coney Island Bear are named after the yarn colors used to make them: Lionbrand's Wool-Ease® Thick & Quick® yarn in &#…