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Chocolate Rocky Mountain Cake
My daughter asked me to bake a cake for her husband’s birthday party last week. She had decided to have a surprise garden party for him at a small community hall/museum close to her home here in Finland. The theme for the party was America. Appropriate since it was held just one day after 4th…
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Freeform CAL by Dada Neon
I have a day off! I can do anything I want. Wow! My husband went to Estonia and I’m home alone! It’s the last day of the long Midsummer weekend here in Finland. (Yes, I’m in Finland again. For the summer.) After taking a quick glance at my various projects, writings, photo editings and…
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Mother’s Day is just around the corner! Not that we celebrate it much in my family!
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Crochet Chicken Pattern
Here’s a cute chick pattern I made up last night as a last minute decoration for our Easter table. It’s fast and fun to make. Just three rounds!
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Spring Twigs
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…
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February 28th, 2014
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…
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Freeform Crochet Spiral Scrumble
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,…
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Bulla Sweet Bread
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…
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Crochet Felted Swirly Heart
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,…
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Yarn Bomb Flowers
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,…
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Dino Mössa / Myssy
Click here for the English version of this pattern.
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Crochet Ornaments
Free the bauble! After making a dozen of the sweet, traditional, crocheted Christmas balls, my mind refused to follow the patterns. My plan was to create a pattern for a big ball in the traditional style. It just didn’t happen. I freeformed it instead.
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