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    On the Needles: FOs and a Cast-On Party

    September 23, 2025 - By 

    Welcome to this month’s On the Needles crafty update! This month has a little bit of everything…Finished Objects, new yarn acquisitions, and some new projects! So let’s get right into it, starting with the FOs. My first finished object is the Daisy Dress, which was one of my “Make 9” goals for this year, and I was so happy to finish it back in August when the weather was still warm enough to justify wearing it. (Today, in contrast, is rainy and 54 degrees F!) Since this was my second iteration of this pattern, I knew I needed to make…

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    On the Needles, July 2025

    July 23, 2025 - By 

    This week on the blog I have a little crafting update to share. As with my vacation reading, I did not get as much knitting done on our trip as I expected to, mostly because it was usually just too hot to want to pick up any yarn. But I have made a good bit of progress on something that I will share later on in this post. First, though, I wanted to start off with a finished sewing project that I just completed yesterday for my daughter! We are calling this the “Sunflower Dress”, and it is based on…

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    On the Needles, May 2025

    May 7, 2025 - By 

    This month I decided to combine my sewing and knitting update into one because, truthfully, I have not been doing a huge amount of either lately. I just have one project that I am really enjoying working on right now, so let’s start with that first! As I mentioned in my last knitting update, I haven’t felt like working on my winter projects since the weather started warming up. So I was already in the market for a new cast-on to reignite the knitting mojo. Then I stumbled upon this locally produced alpaca and alpaca-wool blend yarn in a thrift…

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    10 Spring and Summer Knits I Want to Make

    April 16, 2025 - By 

    Today I thought it would be fun to do something a little different and bring you a pattern round-up of ten knitting projects for spring and summer wearables that I would like to knit myself. As the weather has been warming up (although I am in a cardigan and shawl today because we have had a cold snap), I haven’t been as enthused about finishing my remaining winter WIPs. It’s hard to stay motivated about projects I know I won’t wear more than once before putting them away for next fall. So, my mind has been wandering to spring and…

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    Sewing Update: April 2025

    April 10, 2025 - By 

    Life has been feeling a little hectic around here lately, and I didn’t even realize that I hadn’t already written and scheduled a blog post for this week until Wednesday had come and gone! So I scrambled a bit yesterday and today to take some photos and prepare a little sewing update for this month. Last month, when I found out that Joann’s Fabric stores across the US would be closing, I decided to go ahead and see if I could find any fabrics I wanted there before the option was no longer available. My daughter and I went together…