We're working on a dinosaur diorama, and I thought now was a good time to show how we set it up so that LazyKid can do crafts at our nic...

Well, I'm halfway through the wrap I'm doing for my insanely ambitious first real lace project, and while I love the yarn and love ...

Introducing the Play/Move/Store bag ... aka the "Stop Yelling At Your Kid To Pick Up The Legos" play mat. Unfolded, it's a gre...

Oh, the joys of knowing a 13-year-old who will come and play with Lazy Kid for money while I get massive amounts of work done. In two four-...

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I picked up some inexpensive linen yarn while I was on vacation earlier this summer, and I had grand visions of making it into some sort of ...

Okay, so apparently ugly + ugly = "oh my god, it burns!  it burns!" ugly.  The socks have been frogged, the yarn thrown out, and t...

No photos yet, but I wanted to let everyone know what I was doing with the Fugly Yarn of Doom .  Various swatches with it proved that while ...

This used to be about 10" tall.  It was supposed to felt and get smaller, but I wasn't aiming for something that's too small to...

The solution to the yarn issue from my previous post? Find a pattern that only needed the original number of skeins of yarn, and use a comp...

After scoring a good deal on some Rowan Summer Tweed yarn at the local yarn store, I realized that they didn't have enough of the purple...

So I had this really fugly yarn that looked awful no matter what I did with it, and a couple people on Ravelry suggested I overdye it. The e...

photo from http://www.spiraleyeneedles.com/index.html Has anyone tried them? I'd love to know how they work. I also love the idea t...

My Leyburn socks , which I'm knitting from the same yarn as the emergency wedding shawl (and the socks I made for my sister-in-law ). L...

Okay, so the package to the Lazy Grandparents needed to be in the mail today, and Lazy Kid wanted to make a Valentine's day card to go w...

Pattern can be found here: http://cerdeb.googlepages.com/SuperSelfPouchingStringShoppingBag.pdf The construction on this is really nice - ...

Lazy Kid likes her Rapunzel braid so much, she wore it to the mall on Sunday, and she would have worn it to school today if I hadn't tac...

Well, first of all, I've been dealing with the near-record January snowfall (around 40" ... just in January) here outside of Clevel...

http://www.squamartworkshops.com/index.php Anyone participated in this program before? I know some of the crafty bloggers I read are teachi...

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19852075 (fwiw, I bought a DIY I Spy bag kit from aebaby, and it was wonderfully done, and j...