I was gifted some tomatillos from a lady that I play ball with and they were screaming homemade salsa verde! Using the recipe she provided me, I whipped this super simple (and tasty) recipe up yesterday morning. If you aren’t familiar with tomatillos, they are a Mexican variety of tomatoes, but differ quite a lot from the sweet flavour of…
Overview I have just finished my second test pattern: The Hobbii Pullover. Designed by fellow Canadian, Lee from CocoCrochetLee, this is a pullover design with some volume in the sleeves and worked up in a colour block with Hobbii...
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Guys! I finished my first ever pattern test! – The Shiloh Tee by Emily at Hooked Hazel. I have been crocheting for about 5 years now. Initially a knitter, I took up crocheting because I wanted to learn something new! The first...
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I haven’t done much sewing in a while as I’ve been powering through some pattern testing. This past weekend, I just had an itch to dust off my machine. I think a lot about the Kalle Shirtdress by Closet Core Patterns I made...
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(View Part One here) Welcome back! So glad to have you on this journey while you learn how to knit. You can continue knitting your scarf with just the knit stitch, which forms the Garter Stitch pattern. (At then end of this post, are...
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(View Part Two here) HOW TO KNIT: THE BASICS I’ve been knitting on and off for about 30 years. It was so long ago I can’t even remember how I learned. I do have vague memories of attempting to knit a scarf alongside my...
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The Nova Sweatshirt by Sinclair Patterns was one of my Make Nine 2021 projects that I cheated on and actually made over the Christmas break. It’s ok though, because I love it so much, I want to make another. In all of my years of...
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The Throwover Sweater is complete! I was so excited about this make that I blogged about it early (Part 1 here). When I came across the the Drea Renee Knits March to May knit a long, I knew this would be perfect. This was my first...
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I stumbled across the pattern for the Lillian Cardigan by Two of Wands on Instagram I believe. I had been looking for a loose cardigan with pockets for a while. And since I’m all about using up my current yarn stash, if I colour...
continue readingThis is Part Two of Two on How to Crochet. For Part One, click here. Gardening is a great hobby to increase happiness. But it’s a lot of work keeping plants alive. Today you are going to use the stitches you learned yesterday and...
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