gwen hat, backI have 2 boys
& no pets.
I love wool
& cupcakes.
I like to make things.
e:lisa@goodknits.com

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Crafty Garage Sale update

I sold the cross-stitch fabric and now have ZIPPERS up for sale! They’re pretty inexpensive, IMO, at 50 cents a pop. There’s also an option to buy all 36. If you do a lot of sewing with zippers, I think this would be a great deal! I have accumulated them from various places [...]

Thread Spool Holder

I found two of these at a thrift store. I’m keeping the smaller one and would like to pass along the other (this one). It has 69 spaces for thread spools, minus one missing peg. It’s pretty sturdy (i.e. HEAVY), so keep that in mind if you aren’t in the greater Houston area. It would [...]

Fruits of my packing…

Yesterday, I made a big dent in sorting/packing/purging. The best part about it isn’t that I’m that much closer to being done. No. It’s that I’ve been able to unearth a few projects that just got lost in the shuffle. One of them was my English paper-piecing project. I originally intended this to be blanket-sized, [...]

sewing project: pencil bag.

One of the items on my son’s [pre-kindergarten] school supply list was a “10.5″ x 5.5″ natural canvas pencil bag” and the only place I could find one was a supply distributor online. Since school starts TOMORROW (commence internal freak-out), I decided to just make one, yesterday. I was going to wing it and make [...]

dinero: a coin purse

I made this back in September, I believe. I am rearranging my craft area and I came across a tote bag and this was in it! no, there wasn’t any money in it, just my tiny sansa clip mp3 player. I should take up cross-stitching again.

the yellow fabric is, I believe, linen. It came [...]

starting a hex quilt

Thanks to all the awesome photos in the English Paper-Piecing Flickr group, I started a hexagon quilt on Sunday. I bought a set of coordinating fat quarters (there were a lot, in a cute little tin) and decided on a cute pattern to put them in. I’m using freezer paper to stick my hexagons to [...]

it’s been a while

Forgive me for my absence! I had a lot going on. I made 27–27!!– little rice packs as thank yous for the attendees of my baby shower. no, there were not 27 people there, but I made extras, just in case. Those took about 3 separate evenings to make. they were little 3″ x 6″ [...]

Itty Bitty Owl

little pink owl
Originally uploaded by yarnattacks.

I used this “tutowlrial”.
it took about 10 minutes to make. the longest part was cutting the pieces because there’s no pattern, so you kind of have to fudge it. I omitted the base because I’m lazy. I also didn’t want to look for any cardboard.
she measures about an [...]