by Daisy | Aug 17, 2011 | Crafts, Knitting
Having grown up on a steady diet of Peanuts, I can’t help but see Charlie Brown’s shirt in this pattern. It’s a simple, knit and purl, good-for-beginners cloth. Good Grief! Knitted Dishcloth Yarn: Lily Sugar ‘n Cream (or any worsted weight...
by Daisy | Aug 10, 2011 | Crafts, Earth-Friendly
Here at Little House in the Suburbs we’ve grown tomatoes, dried tomatoes, broiled tomatoes, fried tomatoes, pickled tomatoes, and even laughed at my attempts to stake tomatoes. Running out of new things to do with tomatoes, by george, we’re going to paint...
by Daisy | Aug 2, 2011 | Crafts, Knitting
As knitted dishcloth patterns go, this is one of my favorite! This pattern is kid-tested. However, I don’t mean a child knitted it, or a child washed dishes with it. I mean I’ve knitted it while kids were tugging on the tail of it, trying to make off with...
by Daisy | Apr 25, 2011 | Crafts, Woodworking
You know that awful “Yikes!” feeling you get when you realize you’ve just yanked the hose over a nice bed of lettuce or seedling tomatoes? The other day I was looking at some leftover spindles from a porch rail project and decided to use them to...
by Daisy | Mar 14, 2011 | Crafts, Woodworking
In the “they don’t make ’em like they used to” category, I include the home center shovel. Like this one: So I decided to make a dibble. Funny word. If you don’t know what a dibble is, it’s a stick used to make planting holes,...
by Daisy | Feb 16, 2011 | Crafts, Woodworking
I’ve been whiling away part of the winter planning my Spring garden and whittling these plant markers. If you think you might like to make some, here’s what I did. Find a stick. Any stick will do, from the size of a fat kindergarten pencil to about an...
