You’re ready to bake a delicious dessert. You gather up all your ingredients, and suddenly there stuff everywhere and you don’t know what you have put in already. Sound familiar? Let’s fix it for you. Mise en place is a fancy French term that simply means to get everything ready before you start. So how…
We’ve gone over a bunch of basic crochet stitches, and I’m so proud of you for getting this far. But now we have to talk about something very important – the tension in our stitches. What is stitch tension? In crochet, when we say tension, we are refers to how loose or tight the stitches…
These days, social media rules online. Influencers are everywhere. Everyone’s life looks idyllic and perfect, all the time. Guess what? That’s not reality. People only choose the best pictures to put online. Measuring yourself against them is only going to make you feel bad about yourself. So don’t do it. Measure yourself against where you…
What even is mulch? To put it simply, it’s anything you can use to cover your garden. It can be wood chips, pine straw, grass clippings, or even gravel. Now most people tend to use organic materials for mulch, but you don’t have to limit yourself to that. The purpose of mulch is to cover…
Sewing machines can seem intimidating at first. There are a lot of moving parts, and everyone seems to have some sort of horror story about something going wrong. But relax, it doesn’t have to be scary. We’re going to talk about some parts of the sewing machine today and cover the basics. We’ll dive deeper…
We made it through another week! Hooray! What I’ve been working on this week is maintaining a positive attitude. In addition, I am trying to cultivate an “attitude of gratitude,” which sounds like it’s fake. And maybe it is, I don’t know. What I’m trying to do is recognize small things and be grateful for…
Ok so this isn’t a musical, but I’m keeping the same title format even if I talk about an opera. You’ll just have to accept that! Let’s start with why I chose this opera to be first. I don’t know if anyone goes and watches the shows that I talk about based on my writings….
Sometimes, you don’t have all the ingredients you need on hold to make something. And you don’t have the time/energy/money to go run to the store to get it. So what do you do? Substitutions! Not everything can be substituted. And sometimes I do the substitutions because it’s easier than having a bunch of a…
Time to talk about the next crochet stitch. And this time, we are tackling the triple crochet. If you’re thinking wow, single, double, triple, how far is this going to go? Well, this is it. Triple is the last stitch in this part of the series. There are lots of other types of stitches, and…
Have you ever felt like you just aren’t making any progress with your skills? I think this is a normal occurrence. There comes a point when you know enough that it’s not new anymore, but you’re aren’t exactly an expert either. It’s easy to get stuck in this mindset, so let me tell you how…
