Craft Buff

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 sister-in-law Ginny (who's been mentioned and/or featured a whopping 9 times on this blog; the most recent time was here ) has just s...

I spent parts of this weekend learning and teaching various crafts. On Friday, crafty Rochesterian (is that right?) Donna taught me and my s...

The past few days I've been crocheting and knitting like crazy. I made a bag (future birthday present for someone, to be featured at a l...

Behold, a hat and scarf made from yarn that's traveled the world! This lovely wool/acrylic blend originated in Italy , was purchased as ...

I just found a funny website where you can "knit" your very own over-the-top holiday sweater! Check it out here .

My brother-by-another-brother Matt (see here for an explanation) gave me some awfully crafty Christmas presents. I'm so impressed with ...

My sister Sarah knitted me this amazing felted bag as a Christmas present. I'd known she was making it (we knit together so it would...

Every year my knitting group holds an annual get-together at knitter extraordinaire Stacey's house in Alden, NY. She decorates her old V...

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...

My friend Diane and I often craft together. It helps that we live within a mile of each other in the 14213 (gotta show some neighborhood pri...

The trouble with making lots of gifts at the holidays and having a blog that features my ongoing craft adventures is that I can't post a...

I belong to a knitting group that has been very indulgent of my absences of late. I guess being in Mongolia is a pretty good excuse for not ...

The webspinner inspecting her work One of my cats, Mochi, loves to eat wool and other natural fibers (particularly cashmere). In addition to...

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...

Dawn, a friend/fellow camp counselor from back in the day, heads the Buffalo chapter of La Leche League , an international, nonprofit, nonse...

As I mentioned a few days ago , we're soon traveling to Mongolia (where my husband and I initially met as Peace Corps Volunteers) so tha...

Pictured above is our cat Mochi (Momo for short- she's named after both a rice ball and a dumpling), who has pica . This has caused som...

Here's a link to a very cool website I haven't yet mentioned on this blog... Instructables.com. I like the tutorials here because t...