I love this little bicycle cross-stitch chart from Make it Yourself magazine.
It’s a pretty small chart and only uses three colors. It’s the perfect design to stitch up and hang in a six-inch hoop, and it would be the … Read More...
Giveaway: Margeau Chapeau
Judy is the winner.
Last week I told you about the book full of pretty, classic, but with a bit of luxury worked in hat knitting patterns called Margeau Chapeau
. I’m delighted to be able to give away a … Read More...
11 Easy Christmas Cross Stitch Charts
I’m not even remotely ready to think about Christmas yet, but if hitting six months until the holiday has you itching to do some stitching in green and red, I’ve got you covered.
Get ready to deck the halls and … Read More...
Celebrate the Offbeat Side of Yarncraft with Yarn
Have you heard about the documentary Yarn by Una Lorenzen? Maybe you’ve been lucky enough to see it already. I don’t live anywhere near any of the places where the film is being screened in the United States, but I … Read More...
Learning Activities around the Olympics
The Olympic Games are starting Aug. 5, so it’s the perfect time to bring some Olympic-themed learning and play into your classroom or home.
Edventures with Kids hosted a great Olympics activity roundup earlier this summer that includes geography, STEM … Read More...
Review: Margeau Chapeau: A New Perspective on Classic Knit Hats
I really love knitting hats. I don’t wear hats enough to justify how much I love knitting hats, but at least every year I have to knit myself a new one.
hat knitting patterns called Margeau Chapeau
They’re a lot … Read More...
Get Your Christmas Stitching Started with Christmas Greetings
I have been cleaning out my office recently and I found this little booklet from Leisure Arts, which seemed appropriate since it’s basically Christmas in July time.
Christmas Greetings
has patterns for three different designs that could be used in … Read More...
Get Ready for Christmas Knitting: Your Battle Plan
It’s just about six months — 21 weeks — until Christmas, and it might seem crazy to start thinking about holiday knitting just because yarn companies (like Red Heart and Yarnspirations) are putting out Christmas in July knitting patterns.… Read More...
Help Kids Learn Skip Counting with Free Printable Posters
My daughter is almost seven and she’s really interested in learning math facts. We were talking about multiplication yesterday and she can already skip count by 2, 5, 10 and a little bit by 3, which is really the beginning … Read More...
Use Up Odd Balls to Make a Cool, Colorful Pillow Cover
This is a really fun technique from purl3agony. She made both a pillow cover and a coffee cup cozy using odd balls of yarn and Linen Stitch (which looks so cool done in lots of different colors).
But one big … Read More...
Learn American Geography with a Scavenger Hunt
Even though the Olympics are not in the United States this year, now is a great time to teach kids about geography of all sorts (and I’ll be sharing lots of fun Olympics-related activities later this week).
Whether you tie … Read More...
Cross-Stitch Diamonds with Connie
Connie Gee Designs has been doing a really long stitchalong that is just about finished. Her diamond pattern stitchalong is going to include 25 patterns, and the 24th was just released.
The projects are mostly abstract, with four designs … Read More...
Giveaway: The Encyclopedia of Knitting
Eunice is the winner!
I’m doing a major cleanout in my office (again), so I’m uncovering some great books that are older but still super useful that I don’t need but I’m sure someone will want.
A lot of books … Read More...
Knitting News: Arm Knitting in GIFs, A Gorgeous Knit Dress and More
Probably the strangest knitting-related news of the week (and this is a week when someone was sentenced to knitting following a road rage incident) is the case of a woman accused of smuggling fake $100 into the United States in … Read More...
Learning with Pokemon
Does it seem like everyone around you is obsessed with Pokemon Go? If your kids are into it, or the original Pokemon, why not add a Pokemon spin to their learning with Pokemon lesson plans?
Mathematical Thinking used Pokemon characters … Read More...
Pokemon Cross-Stitch Patterns
I was expecting to come in here today with a big list of Pokemon cross-stitch patterns, but instead, I’m just going to give you a couple of places to explore.
Trust me, it will be enough. That list a little … Read More...
Pokemon Knitting Patterns: Gotta Knit ‘Em All
I have to confess I haven’t downloaded Pokemon Go, but it is funny that every time I drive past my neighborhood park there’s a collection of people huddled near the entrance, and it seems like everywhere I go people are … Read More...
Check out These Math Picture Books For Home Schooling
Reading stories about subjects is a great way to learn that doesn’t feel like learning as much as memorizing facts or using a workbook.
And when kids are first learning their numbers and basic math concepts, engaging stories are a … Read More...
Knit a Flat Frog Bookmark
Here’s a fun idea to encourage reading among kids and frog lovers. Toothless Knitter has a pattern (or more of a description of a process, really) for a flat frog bookmark, which, despite its gruesome name, is actually really … Read More...
Stitch Up Some Birds with Birds of a Feather Booklet
I love the look of birds and gardens in cross-stitch, and the booklet Birds of a Feather
from Leisure Arts and Herrshners combines both in a lovely way that is sure to inspire nature-loving stitchers.
The book includes the four … Read More...