![Cupcake Appliqué [S.O.P. Series]](https://i1.wp.com/www.tugboatyarning.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cupcake1.jpg?resize=480%2C300&ssl=1 "Cupcake Appliqué [S.O.P. Series]")
Appliqués are a great way to add something fun to hats, and this little cupcake was one of my favorite ones to make. I found a lot of different cupcake patterns online, but I couldn’t quite get them to fit the sizing and look I wanted. So after playing around…
![Slip Stitch Embroidery Technique [S.O.P. Series]](https://i2.wp.com/www.tugboatyarning.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SlStEmbroid-Step5.jpg?resize=640%2C300&ssl=1 "Slip Stitch Embroidery Technique [S.O.P. Series]")
There was a time in my life I was on time for things. In fact, I’ve been known to get places at that awkwardly early stage where I really should have waited out in the car. But now-a-days? I’m late. I’m late a lot. Maybe my life theme for next…
![Treble Crocheted Baby Pants [S.O.P. Series]](https://i0.wp.com/www.tugboatyarning.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/VStitchCrochetedBabyPants.jpg?resize=670%2C300&ssl=1 "Treble Crocheted Baby Pants [S.O.P. Series]")
To start off my Summer of Patterns Series, I wanted to share a fun pair of baby pants. This was my first try at making little pants, and I had a blast figuring them out. (Okay, so maybe it wasn’t as blastastic when I had to pull out rows and…
![Prepping for June [S.O.P Series]](https://i1.wp.com/www.tugboatyarning.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/SOP-PreppingforJuneIcon.jpg?resize=670%2C300&ssl=1 "Prepping for June [S.O.P Series]")
Are you ready for summer? Are you ready for sweaty days, and humid evenings? Are you ready to be off school, or take a quick vacation from work, or maybe to waste away hours at the beach? Well Good. Me, too. Bring on the sunscreen and bug bites, summer is…
PLEASE NOTE: This is not a post for everyone. In fact, this post is written for those women that need more information, more details, more something to help fill in the gaps while having a miscarriage. There is no What to Expect: Miscarriage Edition, and I knew through my own experience with…
In case you missed Toma Houston Photography’s blog post feature about Tugboat Yarning, head on over to her site and check it out! Also, be sure to flip through her site to see her beautiful photography while you’re over there! ~M
This past winter I did a lot of crocheting – fun projects, gifts for cool people, and experimented with a lot of yarn. And what do I have to show for it? Well, a lot of unique projects and a whole mess of scribbly notes that even I have trouble…
I like to crochet. Actually, I LOVE to crochet. I kind of go through this awful, cranky withdrawal when it’s been too long between sessions of sliding yarn through my fingers. With days filled with the Good Chaos of two little munchkins, it has been a therapy of sorts to…
I’m sharing a tiny secret with you today. It’s a little phrase that I wrote on a scrap of rice paper a few weeks ago. Part of me doesn’t want to tell, but another part is seeking accountability or proof that this phrase once existed despite being dissolved into a bowl…
Music has always been healing for me. There are ways that simple melodies, or an urging baseline, or even the tinkering of a few piano keys can peel down the noise and the pressure of the world until all you feel is the balm and comfort of the music. With…