This easy pumpkin knitting pattern is perfect for beginners and knitters with more experience. It’s worked flat using medium weight yarn and a simple ribbed stitch to give it lots of texture and make it fun to knit. About Knitting Pumpkins There are a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns available, but one of the great […]
Pumpkin Sewing Patterns
I love crafting pumpkins in all sorts of media, but for some reason I’ve never made any pumpkin sewing patterns! I’ve been thinking about trying my hand at them this year and will definitely share the results, but in the meantime, here are a bunch of pumpkin sewing patterns to inspire you to make some […]
Make Pumpkins on a Circular Knitting Machine
It’s so easy to make pumpkins on a circular knitting machine, you’ll find it hard to make just one! I made three of the large ones shown already but I might have to make a few more before the season is out. The good news is pumpkins that don’t have faces can serve as decor […]
Waiting for Fall in the South
It starts around the weekend of the first college football game. We want to call it fall, but that’s in August so everyone knows it’s not really fall. Then there’s Labor Day, when the rest of the country can declare it to be fall but we are still sweltering same as ever. September is not […]
Make a Burlap Bow to Decorate a Simple Fall Wreath
As much as I craft, I’m not really a decorator, but this year more than any other I’ve been feeling a desire to decorate our front porch for fall. It all started with the apple-themed fall porch decor I made for Walnut Hollow, but then I decided we really needed a wreath. I mean, there’s […]
Make Dinner Easy and Get on to the Fun Fall Stuff
It feels like life has been super crazy busy lately, more even than normal. The girl has after school activities three days a week, it’s a busy time for husband and me at work, and it’s also the time of year we most want to be outside because it’s still light and cool in the […]
Make a Tassel Necklace from a Keychain
I went to an event at my daughter’s school recently and scored as a door prize a lovely suede tassel keychain from GiGi New York. Sweet, right? Except I’m not really a giant keychain kind of girl. So of course I had to get crafty with it. These keychains are everywhere right now, and tassels […]