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Sing-a-long with Bonnie Barker

Bonnie and I love to make music and write parodies – new funny words to well-known songs. So, for this year’s conference we worked on a fun event together – the “Friday Night Sing-a-long”. We had a great time singing songs and laughing with our lively audience – they were wonderful! Bonnie played the guitar skillfully and two of my daughters sang along with us encouraging the audience to join in. You can see a video of one of the[Read more]

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5 Great Gifts for Crocheters

This post contains affiliate links – to read our complete disclosure policy, click here Today I want to share with you 5 items that I use almost every day when I am crocheting because they make my life easier and my crocheting time more efficient.  I realized that since this is the season for giving, they would make great gifts for any crocheter you know or they would help you (the crocheter) have some ideas of what to put on your[Read more]

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Cable Crochet Made Easy

This post contains affiliate links – for our complete disclosure policy, click here Have you ever tried crocheted cables? About 10 years ago one of my crochet students mentioned crochet cables to me. She was also a knitter but was fascinated with how you could replicate the look of knitted cables with crochet stitches.  She peaked my interest and I began a search for books on how to do this neat technique. I found one book and started to learn how[Read more]

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Trinity Knot Christmas Tree – Celtic Knot pattern

  Several Christmases ago I posted a photo of a lacy Christmas tree I had crocheted from an out-of-print leaflet.  It is one of my most asked about posts!  I had made the Christmas tree as part of a display I had put up at my local craft store to advertise for my upcoming crochet classes.   Since so many people have asked for the pattern (and it is very hard to find), I decided to create my own Celtic[Read more]

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Christmas Holly Leaf Scarf

Here is another quick and easy Christmas gift that is one size fits all! I created this design several years ago and wear it every Christmas season – I always get many compliments on it and it looks great in photos. This pattern is available in my Esty shop here I crocheted with Red Heart’s Shimmer yarn in the colors Lime Green and Red which unfortunately are no longer available. But Red Heart now makes  With Love in some beautiful[Read more]