After a summer 2023 visit with my granddaughters, which was after they had attended an epic Taylor Swift Eras Tour Concert, the 12-year old said, “You should knit Taylor Swift socks, Gramma!” My IRL friends know that I do not take a challenge like this lightly, and I started planning very soon after arriving home.

When I was a little girl, my grandmother gave me a little Cradle Purse, complete with a doll, mattress, pillow and blanket. I don’t know if she made the purse or bought it, but I remember that it had a plastic bottom, cut from an oblong shaped bottle of bleach. I loved this little Cradle Purse, and I carried treasures in it well into my teens.

I was looking for a pattern for simple, 2” blocks to knit. I found lots of patterns, but none was quite what I wanted, so I just sat down with needles and yarn and put this together. I hope you like it!

This is a tutorial for crocheted Christmas trees. It assumes that the crafter has basic crochet experience, including crochet in the round and double-crochet. The tree is crocheted holding two strands of different Novelty Yarns together…and while this can be quite fussy at first, I think you’ll find that the fuzzy yarns are great camouflage for...

This is just another take on Grandmother’s Favorite Dishcloth. There are a few changes I’ve made to accommodate my OCD need for symmetry. Each dishcloth takes roughly 1oz. of yarn, as written. I hope you like it!

This is a pattern for knitted hats…for eggs…in worsted-, sport-, and fingering weight yarn! Gauge is not too-too important, and the projects are small, so don’t stress.

This is a pattern that originated from my notes as I knit some hats for the girls in my family. I bought a ridiculous amount of bulky yarn, and went to town! Now, all knitters everywhere (well, on Ravelry at least) can have another free hat and scarf pattern! I hope you enjoy it!

Create a triangular, bottom-up Shawl; a rounded, top-down Shawl; a rectangular Stole; or a Scarf with this pattern! Lace Charts are included in the PDF file, along with the instructions. Gauge is not important, use yarn and needles you love to make the shawl/stole/scarf that flatters you most, and that you will most enjoy knitting.

These are a very loose adaptation of a generic mitten pattern, knitted more tightly than I generally found in the patterns I was perusing online. I added the flaps, because I like mittens with flaps! If you don’t want to do a gauge swatch, it’s fine by me…just try the things on as you go, and take notes as you knit (so the second one will match...