Urban Craft Uprising this Weekend!

Will you be joining us for an independent holiday shopping extravaganza this weekend? Urban Craft Uprising's Winter 2013 show will be held at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall (321 Mercer Street--right beneath the Ballet, and wheelchair accessible!) this Saturday and Sunday from 11am-5pm. Book signings, demos, plus lots of great vendors of independent design and craft will be there! Including us! We had lots of fun at the Summer show, but this one promises to be a holly jolly event to get you started for the December holidays!

Please join us, and try to be early because the first 100 fans in line each day at the Seattle Exhibition Center each day get a Free Swag Bag, so grab a latte and come on by!

Find us right underneath the huge, life-size Polar Bear, Mr. Bradley Stemke. See you there!

Bing Day!

Yesterday, we survived the heat quite splendidly in Molly of Vivi Dot's adorable little house, working on our goodies for Alt Summit by Bing. It was such a fun collaboration! Assemble with Vividot for Bing for Alt Summit--certainly a run-on sentence, but will be delightful nonetheless.

All of you who are going to Alt Summit San Francisco--look forward to these goodies! Trade them like you traded Pogs in the third grade. #thanksBing Thanks, Vivi Dot! And special thanks to sweet Christian Powers for helping us out. See below for some quick snaps of our day:

A Crocheted Baby Blanket

A baby nephew is coming, and I decided it was time to put my money where my mouth is and make something lovely. I started out using the Crocheted Granny Square pattern in cream, but it the squares were a bit too big with wider spaces for little baby hands. So I took our existing pattern, shrank it up a bit and used a light taupey-grey yarn. Here are the pictures I took along the way:



The concept
Piecing
Scalloping the edges
Blocking and ironing
Finished!
I love the granny squares in solid colors. It brings a whole new feel to the pattern. What do you think? Ready to make your own?