Take a walk into nature and bring home a bunch of twigs or branches!
Any branches will do. From deciduous trees, bushes, or shrubs! My favorites are birch trees, apple trees, and branches of wild blueberry plants.
Place them in a container with water. In a few days they will sprout sweet, new leaves!
Branches adorned with colorful feathers is a Scandinavian Easter tradition. In the photo below my Anna is proudly showing off her twigs way back in 2001.
Etsy Treasury
The last day of February! Spring equinox only 20 days away. Woot!
Longing for summer, traveling to it soon, and searching for nautical inspiration on the net, I ended up making a treasury on Etsy. It “only” took me 4 hours to find the images I liked, but it was worth it. During that time I went back to memories by the beach, by the lake, on the sea, feeling the sun and the salty wind. Good therapy!
Greetings from a reader
For Thanksgiving last year I posted a photo of a scrumble I had been working on. Having thoughts of gratitude, harvest, and other related things, I realized my scrumble looked like a funky turkey head!
The scrumble is made using my two color spiral pattern, a “wing” pattern, and ridges made with reverse single crochet, a.k.a. Crab Stitch. The wing pattern can also be considered a leaf pattern.
This is my most requested food item. I wrote this recipe a long time ago, but never got to take a photo of any ready made bullas. They disappear too fast! Needless to say my family loves bulla!
Bulla is a traditional Finnish sweet bread. The dough can be baked to become a myriad of different baked goods. It is the same for Finns as donuts are for Americans.
In Maine, Finnish heritage clubs even organize Bulla competitions! I wonder if they do that in Minnesota too?
Last year I made felted heart pins of pretty purple yarns. Since then I’ve had requests for the pattern. I’m a bit slow sometimes, but now it’s finally done!
The heart pattern is based on my spiral pattern that you can see here. In this heart I’ve used front post stitches to accentuate the spiral, and a single crochet row to really make it pop out.
A fellow crocheter and her friends are planning to yarn bomb a new fence in their neighborhood. For this project they need a lot of crocheted flowers. I had a few stashed away and decided to mail them. My contribution wasn’t going to help much, so I made more.
But the flowers are so small, and the fence is so big. How can I make big flowers, and fast?