Y’all, I had so much ambition this summer. We took a glorious road trip as a family, and I packed up soooooo much yarn to make soooooo many dolls. I had plans to make forty-two. FORTY-TWO!! Well, I may have made all the shoes and tutus for them, but only…
Wow, sixty dolls. I have now made sixty dancers – many different hairstyles, a variety of skin tones, unique limbs, culturally expansive… SIXTY DOLLS! I initially started this project because, as a refugee foster mom, I noticed how easily we could find pale-skinned dolls at stores, but not many that…
For my über nerdy crochet friends out there, here are all the details of my hella cool dancers I’ve been working on. Below I share the types of yarns I used, other materials, and then at the bottom of this post you’ll find links to each one of the dancer’s…
Our very first foster child loved to play with baby dolls. And as I watched them playing with the pale-skinned, blue-eyed baby doll that we had on hand, I thought to myself, “Whoa, that doll looks nothing like them.” So I went on a quest: to find a baby doll…
![Get Your British On [S.O.P. Series]](https://i0.wp.com/www.tugboatyarning.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/PoliceBox-ColorOptions.jpg?resize=670%2C300&ssl=1 "Get Your British On [S.O.P. Series]")
Don’t get me wrong – I love me some red, white, and blue, but sometimes you gotta appreciate your own country’s history (and who might have influenced them). I’ve talked about our love of The UK’s Top Gear, so it should come as no surprise that I like a lot…
![Baby Cape Crochet Pattern [S.O.P. Series]](https://i0.wp.com/www.tugboatyarning.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/BabyCape-Ad.jpg?resize=670%2C300&ssl=1 "Baby Cape Crochet Pattern [S.O.P. Series]")
Do you have a super baby flying into your family soon? Or maybe flying over to a friends’ homestead? This is a fun little pattern you can use to whip up the perfect baby gift just in time for their super arrival! NEWBORN BABY CAPE CROCHET PATTERN Materials…
The title of this post doesn’t have a spelling error – well, I guess this time it’s an intentional error at least. I don’t have time to add silly little letters to words so that I can fully be understood, or un-auto-correct my words so that I am actually making sense.…
This week I felt like I stretched my fingers a little bit more (at least creatively thinking) and decided to work on some of the more difficult yarns out of my challenge box. You know, the ones that I complained about for Week 5. Well, I took some of…
After last week’s confession, I did my best to use up some skeins of yarn, and I think I succeeded! Check out this beautiful wool yarn: Using the The Blue Leaf Headband pattern (found for free on Ravelry!), I knitted with double strands of the yarn to make…
Here’s the thing: I’ve discovered that little boys don’t have quite the extensive accessorizing capabilities as girls. No bows, pearly necklaces, headbands, flowery hats, sparkling bracelets… the list continues. Once an article of clothing even smells of being girlie, it’s off limits to boys. Why? I could go into a rant…