From my CraftLit folks I often get questions about “how to”… fill in the blank. I decided I should get a move on and get some tutorials compiled here for y’all. So. Crochet. Don’t know that I agree with the arcylic recommendation (I’d just say any tightly plied yarn–no splitting) but I really like that they work you towards a product rather than just chaining forever. Here’s Part I of the basics...

Oh. My. Goodness. I love this… and can’t wait to live in a place where I have a craft-room again! Enjoy! Filth Wizardry: Milk Jug Storm Trooper Helmet.

Yesterday, in anticipation of the upcoming release of What Would Madame Defarge Knit? our artiste extraordinairé created free holiday cards for you and yours to use this holiday season. You can view and download the goodies over at the Madame Defarge site. More goodies will be a-comin’ so keep checking back. Then, in my other guise as edumacator, I thought I’d share this with you…just in case you didn’t know from Bayeux...

It is certainly possible you haven’t heard of Dr. Who. Is it also possible you heard of, watched, but didn’t understand the finer points of the show. I think Craig Ferguson will clear this all up for you. YouTube – Craig Ferguson – The lost “Dr. Who” cold open.. And more–this has now made me like Matt Smith. I am...

This holiday season a group of us are planning a Dickens of a Christmas blog hop:

* April of 21st Century Housewife
* Ken of Ken Albala’s Food Rant and many, many books about food which you should check out
* Heather of Mama O Knits too Much, CraftLit and the upcoming pattern book What Would Madame Defarge Knit?
* Margo of Hat Shadows, a professional milliner for film, theater, opera and ballet. She teaches hatmaking courses so check out her blog!
* Diana of A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa
* Annette of Sustainable Eats
* Sarah of XX , a print journalist, food blogger and author of an upcoming book about the home canning revolution?

There will be recipes for the traditional foods Dickens wrote of in A Christmas Carol, or recipes that would have been found in Victorian England around the holidays. There will be a professional reading of the story available as a podcast. There will be giveaways, themed knitting patterns and quite possibly hats! There may be smoking bishop and suet cooked in organs. And there will certainly be much making of merry.

I just love this. Atomic Shrimp – Lost Gloves. It’s completely goofy, but there’s just something about it that warms my heart. I don’t know, something about the community of the interwebs, all out there finding new homes for lost gloves. It’s all rather sweet, really. Anyway. made me smile. Hope it does for you...