Boot cuffs are the perfect marriage of cute and practical--they seem like a frivolous decoration but, in spite of being so small, they provide so much warmth. The ribbed stitch here creates a bit more bulk--and it’s so simple to do.

These cuffs are made essentially in single crochet--but you slip your hook into the back loop of the stitch. That’s all you do, yet it changes the fabric completely. Such a small thing--the switch to hooking through the back loop--makes such a noticeable difference. Similarly, sometimes when we switch our perspective oh-so-slightly, it makes the whole scene look different--like when we can suddenly see the other side of an argument, or realize that bad news really isn’t so bad after all A small shift in perspective can make an enormous difference.