Craft Buff

As I have written many, many times before, one of my favorite movies is My Neighbor Totoro . So when I thought about decorating the room for...

We've been working on transforming our spare bedroom/my study into a nursery for the past couple of weeks, and the prep work is almost d...

We had an ultrasound on Monday, May 5 (Cinco de Mayo, appropriately) and found out that we're expecting a baby boy. No, he won't be ...

Yep, that's right-- I've been a quiet, inactive crafter/blogger as of late for what I deem a very good reason-- the first trimester ...

A long time ago I blogged about skirts that I made for my friend Becky's adorable twins, Isobel and Ophelia. Little peanuts that they a...

I've finished all the granny squares for the sock monkey blanket I'm crocheting . Now it's time to make some monkeys! That's...

I knitted a sweater for my dear friend Hanna when she was pregnant with her lovely (and generally quite smiley, although not in these photos...

My wonderful friends Liz and Matt and their cute little son Nathan will welcome a second child into their family at the end of May. I used ...

The past 10 days have been a whirlwind of activity here, hence my long blogging silence. I have a backlog of photos and information to post,...

Meet Vonn James! My wonderful friend Andrea recently had a little baby boy. I blogged a while ago about the sweater and blanket I made to w...

Okay, it's sort of cheating to blog about this because I didn't make this adorable vest for adorable baby Isobel... but I did buy it...

A while back I made a little sweater for my friend and classmate Heather, who was pregnant with her daughter Julia. Julia's now growing ...

Ophelia doesn't look happy about being hatted! My friend Becky sent me a picture of her beautiful twin girls in the little baby caps I k...

I made this little cotton baby hat for my friend John's impending arrival in Manila. I made it from cotton because frankly, being from B...

Radical Cross Stitch has a tutorial for an easy-to-make baby hat using an old knit dress (though you could use anything knit, really).

Sometimes it's hard to believe that almost 10 years have passed since I finished my Peace Corps Volunteer service in Erdenet, Mongolia. ...

Today I wanted to share the link to the pattern for the Five-Rectangle Baby Sweater that I often make (or modify and make) for friends' ...

Here are the completed robot outfits! I really like the way they turned out. They're sized at 6-9 months, and I'm sure that Islay, O...

Yesterday I used the robot iron-on transfers I purchased from The Mod Dots Shop . In addition to this super-cool addition to my husband'...

My cousin-in-law and fellow Rachel (yes, that's Rachel with an "el," not "ael;" you might not believe how much it ma...