DIY Halloween, jack-o-lantern and WIP’s

Inspired by Make and Craft’s DIY Halloween contest I decided this post should have some Halloweeny fun to it. So, you get to see a Chinese Lucky Cat Jack-o-lantern and you’ll be trick-or-treated by my knitting wip’s (I could just say you’ll see pics of my wip’s, but isn’t the thought of yarn hanging [...]

Variation on Bricks Quilt, first ever entrelac and Uno dress news!

I have a lot to catch up on here! I’ve been waiting until I had something finished, since I know that text-only posts can be a bit dull. With that in mind, I’ll get the texty part out of the way first.
So, for the big news:
My uno dress won the Craftster challenge! [...]

Gloves and scarflette

It seems like scarflette is a relatively new term. To me, it is basically a mini scarf that is often buttoned.
Let’s start with some photos:

And so you can see how long the scarf is (and how much yarn I had left)

The gloves came from Erika Knight’s book Classic Knits.
I used US size 2 needles [...]