• Purple!

    “Purple is not a real color!” That’s what people told me in the 60’ when I was a child. How could they say that? To me it was clearly a color on it’s own, distinct from red and blue. But no, no matter how I questioned their opinion or argued against it, they still didn’t…

  • Granny Squares Again!

    My grandson was born yesterday! He’s gorgeous! I’m a granny times two now. Or “Mommo” as we say in Finland-Swedish. It’s a nickname for mormor, which means mother’s mother. I’m at my daughter’s, caring for the dogs and the cat, eagerly waiting for the family to come home. So, yesterday we had a funny “history-repeats-itself”…

  • Mohair scarves and fruit salad

    Some time ago my sister gave me loads of fancy yarns. She had an exquisite little yarn shop in a small town in Pennsylvania. I loved that shop and all the fine yarns stocked up everywhere. She used to give small knitting gifts to us and even taught my youngest daughter to knit. A few…

  • The Minnesota Five Cup Salad

    This is a creamy fruit salad. It’s very easy to make,  using just five ingredients!

  • Craft That Trash!: Tuna Can Pincushion

    Do you need a new pin cushion? Here’s how to turn a tuna can into a pin cushion. It’s fast and easy and a lot of fun. The most time consuming part is designing your pin cushion and collecting all the materials. So why not make several when you’re at it? You can give some…

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