Hello!

Mighty quiet out there in blog land. Must be that everyone is out enjoying the summer weather. I was browsing around etsy the other day and I wanted to share all the pretties I added to my favorites:

I found these while looking for feather pads to make a bunch of feather headbands like the ones I drew in this post. Found some really amazing ones, and I cannot wait to get started on a full-scale feather hair accessory line for the shop. I have made one for myself so far and I wear it every chance I can. Pictures will be coming soon, but not too soon, as I have a lot of posts in the works that need to be up before the end of the month. Namely, I am done with the actual baskets that all the prizes will go in for the big blogiversary giveaway (be sure to leave a comment anywhere on my blog this month to be entered). And while I was making them I took very detailed pictures that I will be making into a tutorial, and I will post it by next Wednesday or sooner. I always have lots of people asking me how I get seamless joins, how I get the stitches so tight, etc, so this tutorial will essentially give away all my secrets, lol. But why not? I have had such an amazingly fun time teaching people how to crochet at the Stitch N Bitch group and I want to try my hand at teaching lots of people via the internet. (Ooh, and I am finally good enough at knitting so that I was able to teach one of our newest members last week. Yay!) Anywho, if you are learning how to crochet and want a simple project tutorial to teach you the basics of crochet in the round, then hopefully I will see you later this week!