Author: Nicole

I had a really cool sweater necklace. You know the kind….long silver chain with a big charm on the end, just perfect for adding that little extra something to your collection of long winter tunics. The charm in question was a big metal tassel that jingled and shimmied in all the right ways to enchant…

If you came here looking for the feather & fan wave stitch, click here. I’ve since made a change to the pattern and it’s in a new blog post. I love a good crochet wave stitch!! I’ve only ever seen one TC wave/ripple pattern in print, though. I wanted to see if I could retool…

  It’s a stuff day. I had gotten in the habit of blasting this site and social media every Sunday and Monday with a pattern or two and some posts, but the last couple of days I’ve been doing……stuff. One of the stuffs I’ve been doing is conquering my block regarding lace. As a regular…

This is chemo cap #1 in what I’m hoping will be a three part series of free patterns. A short time ago, my friend Tammy received a diagnosis that rocked her world. She has had surgery right away and now chemo begins. I’m up here in Canada and while I know she’s a new friend to…

Being in a creative profession can be tough. We put ourselves into our work daily, and when people love it, well, we get a little high on that, don’t we? Not everyone is a fan, though. No matter how long you’ve been at it, or how strong you believe yourself to be, sometimes the criticisms…

All links in this post are non-affiliated. I receive no compensation – I just really like what this guy has to say!! I’ve reworked this article over the last year or so depending on the industry I was writing for. I wear a few hats, so some of you might read this and think “Hmmmm….sounds…

If you look through a lot of my patterns on Ravelry, you will see that I like to use the honeycomb stitch. When you combine offset rows of Tss and Tps, the resulting pattern looks like the cells in a honeycomb. It’s easy to do and I love the way it looks. Here are some…

The Tunisian purl stitch  (Tps) is the subject of some discussion, owing to the fact that it is called such simply because it looks like a knitted purl; not because it is any particular stitch in reverse. However, I’ve ranted about this a little already. When you work this stitch, the yarn is held to…

This was done at the request of some of the followers where I have been guest blogging. I apologize, because really, my site isn’t all that beginner friendly. Tunisian Simple Stitch (TSS or Tss) is the most basic stitch in Tunisian crochet. It is done by keeping the yarn to the back of the work,…