It’s prime spooky knitting season, and I love this design for those times when you might want something seasonal that’s not a costume.
The Cemetery Drive Cowl by Emily Haver features ghosts in a graveyard and it looks great in … Read More...
Slightly Spooky Halloween Cross Stitch
Black cats, cobwebs, skulls and jack o’lanterns — all are spooky signs that it’s Halloween time.
And all are featured on this Trick or Treat cross stitch pattern from Anna XStitch, available on Etsy for $4.95.
The design uses six … Read More...
Halloween Playdough Recipes
It’s been a long time since I’ve made homemade playdough. Now that my daughter is a tween she’s much more into slime and other dramatic sensory experiences, but every now and they she still wants to make and play with … Read More...
Another Great Pumpkin Knitting Pattern
There are so many pumpkin knitting patterns out there and I want to knit ALL of them because they are so fun and easy and a great way to decorate this time of year.
Here’s another great one I just … Read More...
Color by Letter Jack O’Lantern Page
Color pages that use letters to show which sections should be colored each color are a fun way to add letter recognition to the art area.
This printable jack o’lantern color by letter page from Sight and Sound Reading uses … Read More...
A Hat Knitting Pattern to Get You Ready for Fall
I usually only wear hats when it is really cold and I’m going to be outside for a decent period of time, but I do love the idea of wearing hats throughout the year, especially as the chill mornings of … Read More...
Pumpkin Perler Bead Pattern for Cross Stitch
Another great source for cross-stitch patterns that weren’t originally designed as cross-stitch patterns is the world of perler bead
or melty bead designs.
These patterns are on a grid of squares, too, so it’s simple to translate them from beads … Read More...
Get Ready for Halloween with the Skulls Pullover Knitting Pattern
I can’t believe it’s almost October! For as slowly as spring and summer went, we sure barreled through September! Halloween — whatever it looks like this year — will be here before we know it, but we still have time … Read More...
Add a Little Lace to Your Fall Knitting with the Estrella Pullover
I have a tendency to knit big, bulky sweaters, which I love, but I don’t really have any handknit sweaters that a good for fall. Probably in part because I’m really lazy and it sounds to me a full-sized sweater … Read More...
Halloween Kisses Pixel Design
One of the cool things about cross stitch is that, because it’s on a grid, you can use other gridded patterns as cross-stitch patterns even if that wasn’t the initial intent of the design.
Brik, for instance, has a lot … Read More...
Printable Preschool Pumpkin Math Activity
Here’s another fun printable activity for little ones using pumpkins to help with counting.
Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds has a printable pumpkin math activity that you can use with counters, pumpkin seeds or anything else you want to … Read More...
More emPower Knitting Patterns
I told you back in July about the emPower People project, which encourages people to knit or crochet a purple headscarf or cowl to be worn when voting and engaging in other civic activities like gatherings or marches, with the … Read More...
Sight Word Pumpkin Patch Sensory Bin
Teaching sight words to kids is all about repetition, and it helps if you can find different ways to make it fun for them to keep seeing the same words until they learn them.
This sight word pumpkin patch sensory … Read More...
10 Activities to Do with One Pumpkin
Pumpkins are starting to show up everywhere these days and they’re a fun way to bring in some seasonal learning activities. If you plan it right, you can do a bunch of different activities with just one pumpkin (or one … Read More...
Another RBG Cross Stitch Pattern
I love this Ruth Bader Ginsburg cross stitch pattern because it shows everything she was known for — the collar and the earrings.
This one is pretty simple because it’s just three colors, but it makes a big impact and … Read More...
Homeschool Pumpkin Engineering Project
I love this idea for a pumpkin engineering project you can do at home with one or two kids. All you need is a pumpkin, a tree, and some imagination (OK, some other materials, too).
Thriving STEM shares this idea … Read More...
Be Kind Cross Stitch
It feels like the world could use a little more kindness these days, and maybe stitching a cross stitch pattern about kindness can serve as a reminder to bring that attitude into our daily live.
This pattern from Cross Stitch … Read More...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Cross Stitch Pattern
There are so many amazing Ruth Bader Ginsburg cross stitch patterns out there, and I will probably be sharing several this week in her honor, but I wanted to note in particular this one from Pandostitch on Etsy.
It’s … Read More...
Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Knitting
The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week has been emotional for a lot of people, and has increased the popularity of RBG inspired knitting projects.
In case you want to bring a little of her style and dissent to … Read More...
Remembering Cat Bordhi
Cat Bordhi, a renowned knitwear designer, innovator, teacher and advocate for the fiber arts, died September 19, according to a Facebook announcement from her daughter, Jenny. Cat had been diagnosed with cancer and announced in July that she was dying… Read More...