Easy Valentine’s Day Gifts

We love when a specific holiday gets closer, our inboxes become full of emails boasting free patterns! This Valentine’s Day is no exception. With the romantic holiday about a week away, you have more than enough time to complete one of these little goodies. Perfect for gifting to that special someone, friends, family OR better [...]

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Holiday Trend Forcast: The Ugly Sweater (Party)

There is so much fugly great Christmas sweater inspiration out there it was hard to decide on just one to focus on for color and trend inspiration. Much like my research on the Cosby Sweater, the more I dug into the history of the Ugly Christmas Sweater the more I became lost in a sea [...]

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3 New Patterns… and… It’s Here! Crocheted Version of the Center Row Lace Headband / Neck Warmer! AKA PATTERN-PALOOZA!!

After many requests, we have finally perfected and patterned up a crochet version of our most popular pattern, the Center Row Lace Headband / Neck Warmer.  The dimensions of the finished product are very close to the knit version, and the look is almost identical.  I hope that you crocheters out there are happy with [...]

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Post Halloween, Pre-Turkey Day Update

While Halloween at Brandy’s house wasn’t as busy with kiddos as in years past, we definitely had more time to focus on a few new projects.  The weather has turned here in the PNW, and the last few weeks I have been focused on gloves and mittens.  One, their quick, two, sizing really isn’t too [...]

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Terror-ific FREE Halloween Patterns

Halloween is here again and with exactly 16 days remaining until the big night Mary and I have a lot of crafting to do to be ready for trick-or-treaters. This year we’ve decided to decorate my home as a haunted or un-dead funeral home. I live in the suburbs so I always get tons of [...]

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Free Pattern Alert! Misti Net Scarf

Even though it is 80 degrees today, you can count on two things here in the Pacific Northwest:  cold dreary weather for a good 6 months out of the year, and the need for an awesome scarf.  Today we bring you a free pattern from our friend Karen over at Knit 1 LA.  We are [...]

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Free Pattern: Easy Cable Slouch Beanie

Are you new to the joys of cables? If you answered YES! then this is the beginner hat for you!  I made this hat to run in, so the Cascade Sierra 80% pima cotton, 20% wool mix is perfect!  But any worsted weight yarn should do the trick.  Also, since it has to remain on [...]

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My name is Brandy…

and I have a problem. I just love mustaches SO MUCH!!! Here are my top picks for mustache patterns… soon to be in my queue!

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T-Shirt > Yarn > Accessory

For the past year these t-shirt strip necklaces have been quite popular. Not one to ever pay retail on something I know I can make, I decided to research how to turn old tees into yarn. There’s so much you can do with this versitile material once it’s been converted to “yarn”. Also unlike most [...]

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Share the Warmth : Lands’ End & Warm Up America! Partner Up

We love when we see partnerships between home grown efforts and big retailers; being able encourage charitable handcrafters at a larger scale. Just like the “Share the Warmth” campaign by Lands’ End. For the second year they have partnered up with Warm Up America! to provide needy families with knit or crochet afghans for the [...]

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