Being a geeky crafter, of course I wanted to cross stitch my own QR code for my website. Not just print one. Not just frame one. Actually stitch one by hand and see if it would still scan. Naturally, this turned into a delightful little experiment involving graph paper, QR code error correction, repeated testing…
For most of my crocheting life — and we’re talking about 30 years here — I did not use stitch markers. I thought they were unnecessary.A little fussy.Maybe even a bit of a time-waster. And then I met amigurumi. If you’ve ever crocheted in continuous rounds, you already know…finding that first stitch again is not…
After the calm came the curiosity. Once I’d settled into coloring as a form of rest, I wondered what would happen if I added one small rule: no more than four pencils. I chose a coloring page I liked and limited myself to four rainbow-colored pencils — the kind that shift through multiple hues in…
This post contains affiliate links. That means if you purchase through one of my links, I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. Lately, I’ve been giving myself permission to rest — not by doing nothing, but by doing something quietly joyful. Coloring found me again that way. Not as productivity. Not…
Every crocheter has that moment where we just need to play with new yarns — different fibers, different textures, different weights. I recently tested five yarns across two projects, and today I’m sharing what each one is actually like to work with. No patterns here — just yarn vibes, texture notes, pros, cons, and who…
Crochet season is year-round for me, but winter always brings out the very best of my yarn-loving heart. Over the past couple of months, I tested five different yarns, completed two full projects, and explored two new designers on Creative Fabrica — and today I’m sharing everything I learned. From the “oh my goodness, this…
This post contains affiliate links. That means if you purchase through one of my links, I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. Thank you for supporting Oracle Grove — it truly helps me keep the hearth warm here. 🤎 The HOME Pillow: Cute, Textured, and a Little Bit Tricky (But Worth It…
This post contains affiliate links. That means if you purchase through one of my links, I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. Thank you for supporting Oracle Grove — it truly helps me keep the hearth warm here. 🤎 If you’re looking for a relaxing, repetitive, soothing pattern — this one…
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. A few weeks ago, I bought a book of counted cross-stitch patterns titled From the Films of Harry Potter – The Official Hogwarts Book of Cross-stitch. One section has four bookmark patterns and while I will likely make all four at some point, I started with…
How it Started I had done a little bit of crocheting as a child, but it didn’t stick right away. Then the winter of 1996/1997 hit – so many snowstorms that we were snowed in for many days that winter. I was incredibly fortunate. My grandmother lived just two houses down from me and didn’t…