Knitting, Crochet and Crafts

Category: Seasonal Crafts

  • September Garden Journal Pages for the Happy Planner or Other Discbound Planners

    September Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Like Happy Planner, Arc or Tul
    September Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Like Happy Planner, Arc or Tul

    Happy September, Crafty Friends!


    Did you plant a garden this year? If so, what did you plant, and how’s your harvest coming along? Did you enjoy success with your crops this growing season? or did the bugs and birds eat your harvest before you had a chance to?


    To those of you who did plant gardens, I hope your plants flourished, and that you enjoyed harvesting a bounty of delicious, garden-fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs or a rainbow of delightful flowers — whatever it is you planted.


    Have you been keeping a garden journal to track your gardening successes and failures? If you haven’t already started, now is the ideal time to create a garden journal while all the details are still fresh in your mind. By planting time next year, you might have forgotten some of the details about what you did and how you did it.


    Sadly, I don’t have a garden this year. 🙁 But when I am actively gardening, I routinely make garden journal pages to keep a record of what I’ve done well (so I can repeat those successes) and about what went wrong (so I can try a different approach the next season). I also like to keep a record of what I planted where, so that I can be sure to rotate crops effectively the next year. My garden journal also incorporates to-do lists that keep me on track on what needs to be done in the future.


    If garden journaling is of interest to you, I invite you to check out more of my garden journal pages and read more about my process for making them.


    If you maintain a garden journal, I’d love to know more about what you record in it and how it has helped you achieve your gardening goals. What do your garden journal pages look like? The floor is open for comments, so please feel free to ask questions or share insights in the comments area below.


    Thanks so much for visiting! I truly appreciate your presence here.


    Posted By: Amy Solovay

  • August Garden Journal Pages for the Happy Planner or Other Discbound Planners

    August Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Like Happy Planner, Arc or Tul
    August Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Like Happy Planner, Arc or Tul

    Happy August, Crafty Friends!


    Did you plant a garden this year? If so, how’s your harvest coming along? Did you enjoy any noteworthy successes, or did the bugs and birds eat everything before you had a chance to?


    To those of you who did plant gardens, I hope your plants are flourishing, and that you havested lots of delightful flowers, vegetables, herbs, fruits and / or nuts — whatever it is you planted.


    Have you started a garden journal to track your gardening successes and failures?


    Sadly, I don’t have a garden this year. 🙁 But when I am actively gardening, I make garden journal pages to keep a record of what I’ve done and to make to-do lists that keep me on track on what needs to be done in the future. If this topic is interesting to you, you’re invited to check out more of my garden journal pages and read more about my process for making them.


    If you maintain a garden journal, I’d love to know more about what you record in it and how it has helped you achieve your gardening goals. What do your garden journal pages look like? The floor is open for comments, so please feel free to ask questions or share insights in the comments area below.


    Thanks so much for visiting! I truly appreciate your presence here.


    Posted By: Amy Solovay

  • July Garden Journal Pages for the Happy Planner or Other Discbound Planners

    July Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Like Happy Planner, Arc or Tul
    July Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Like Happy Planner, Arc or Tul

    Hello Crafty Friends!


    Did you plant a garden this year? If so, how’s your garden growing?


    And, have you started a garden journal to track your progress?


    Sadly, I don’t have a garden this year. 🙁 But when I am actively gardening, I make garden journal pages to track what I’ve done and to keep to do lists on what needs to be done next. If this topic is interesting to you, you’re invited to check out more of my garden journal pages and read more about my process for making them.


    If you keep a garden journal, I’d love to know more about what you track in it and how it has helped you achieve your gardening goals. What do your garden journal pages look like? The floor is open for comments, so please feel free to ask questions or share insights in the comments area below.


    Thanks so much for visiting! We appreciate your presence here.


    Posted By: Amy Solovay

  • Independence Day Crafts

    Independence Day Crafts
    Click here to find our complete list of Independence Day Crafts, including the ones pictured here plus others!

    A July Limerick, for Crafters in the USA*


    Our holiday in July’s on the Fourth.

    Freedom — priceless its worth.

    Let’s have fireworks and beer,

    Parades far and near,

    And picnics everywhere, from the south to the north.



    We crafters have other ways

    To spend our holidays.

    We stitch and create

    Even staying up late

    To work on our crafts and displays.


    DIY Jewelry for Fourth of July
    DIY Jewelry for Fourth of July


    In July, we celebrate Independence.

    To do so, we could crochet pendants

    In red, white and blue

    Or other colors too

    And we’ll make plenty more projects hence.


    *To those of you who are outside the USA, please feel free to re-color any of our Fourth of July projects into other colors — maybe your own country’s colors if you like, or whichever color combinations you prefer.


    Also, I invite everyone else to join in the limerick-writing fun, if you like. I’m writing these from my own limited experience, and since I have lived in the USA for most of my life, those are the experiences I have to draw on. I really don’t mean to exclude anyone, and would be happy to see family-friendly limericks from crocheters around the world expressing other viewpoints. Bonus points if they’re silly, tongue-in-cheek, and knitting or crochet-related, but they do have to stay family-friendly!

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  • Accessorize for Fourth of July With a Red, White and Blue Bracelet

    Independence Day is coming up soon; this year, it’ll happen on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. If you’re hoping to make some fun craft projects to celebrate this holiday, one of the things you might want to plan on is creating some fun wearable accessories ahead of time, so you can wear them out to whichever picnics, barbecues, parties or fireworks festivities you plan on attending.


    Red and Blue Beaded Bracelet for Fourth of July or Every Day Wear
    Red and Blue Beaded Bracelet for Fourth of July or Every Day Wear

    You can make this simple-but-lovely bracelet using metallic floss and round glass beads. If you’ve never crocheted with beads before, this bracelet is a fantastic introduction to the technique; it’s a quick project that proves that bead crochet does not have to be difficult, despite what you may have heard to the contrary.

    For those of you in the USA, this bracelet is an ideal way to accessorize for patriotic holidays such as the Fourth of July. It’s a fabulous everyday accessory as well; you could make it for Fourth of July and then wear it whenever you’re dressing in red or blue in the days following.

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