Spiral Joys o’ Butter

Joining the conversation over at Sprinkle Bakes about my favorite cookies!

Cabbage Rose Pillow

New bedding, new pillow. This throw pillow is made from 3 re-purposed wool and cashmere felted sweaters. One sweater made the cover. The roses are made from the leftover rosettes I used in making scarves.

I folded a flat and well worn bed pillow in half to use as the pillow form.

It reminds me of a garden bed of cabbages.

Linen for Lorna

Aren’t these shoes too cute? I love the pleats on the top.

The pattern is here.

Of course she needed a new dress to match the shoes! So its linen for Lorna. Doesn’t she look thrilled?

Coconut Cakelettes

Honestly, I can’t get enough of Sprinkle Bakes. I love making Heather’s beautiful treats. These were delicious!

Georgia on my shirt

I grew up in Pike County, Georgia. Right where that little heart resides on my shirt. I’m going to camp next week, and I am on the red team (Go Red!) so I’ve been getting my red wardrobe in order. This plain tee needed embellishing.

I got the idea here.

Simple. Easy.

Thanks for reading, Ya’ll!

Yarn Bombing in Occidental Park, Seattle

Yarn bombing is textile graffiti. Trees, buses, parking meters, signs or anything really is covered with wrapped yarn or sweater-ed. It was started in Canada by the self-described “knitting ninja” Joann Matvichuk. (Watch that video, she’s hilarious.) To get an idea of how big the movement has grown, browse through these photos from around the world!

Seattle’s Pioneer Square, specifically Occidental Park, has gotten a taste of yarn too! Suzanne Tidwell was hired by Seattle to install a yarn bomb as seen in the pictures below. And if you are in the area, her blog says she would love knitters to contribute! The installation comes down in September.

Linen and vintage scrap pillows

I haven’t been posting, but I’ve been sewing!

My mother passed along quilt pieces that her aunt had cut and hand stitched to me. I’ve used them for crafts and random sewing projects. A few weeks ago I stitched together a few couch pillows. The front is pieced from this vintage stash, and the pillow is with teal linen.

• I love linen! I purchase all my linen from this place: Fabric Store
• Rainbow is trendy!  So, I followed. Sends me back to my childhood, rainbows and unicorns!
• I’m tired of deflating pillows. I splurged and got expensive pillow forms. Lets see if its worth the extra cash?

Salt Caramel Cupcakes

This is my new favorite past time: baking Sprinkle Bakes recipes. So fun!

These cupcakes are for Triple Salted Caramel Cupcakes.

What’s inside!

My piping skills are a little weak!

Finish the Course

I started a writing course (gulp) FIVE years ago. I’m determined to finish it by fall. So, my creative energies will be plugging away at words for a while. You may find me more often over here crafting words instead.

Nook Sweater

I finally made a cover for my Nook. A crocheted sweater using this tutorial as a guide. A very loose guide. I can’t follow a pattern because I’m too lazy to look up the abbreviations. So, I guess at what they mean. Now that I look back at the tutorial (its so pretty), I’m disappointed. I don’t think I got the moss stitch right. And, I KNOW I didn’t get the flap and buttonholes right. I took the thing apart 6 times. It will work for now.