Etobicoke is an inner suburb of Toronto. Southern Etobicoke, which borders Lake Ontario, has numbered streets, from First Street all the way to Forty Second Street. Those ordered streets inspired this hat with its regular bands of stockinette and reverse stockinette stitch. To make the Etobicoke Hat larger into a slouchy beanie, simply add repeats […]
Author: Meinhilde
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Free Miscellaneous Knitting Patterns
I’ve created a roundup of some beautiful free miscellaneous knitting patterns. Lots of these are in my own queue! Of course, you can always browse the massive archive of free patterns on Ravelry to find more free knitting patterns. Many of these patterns are by established designers, so they shouldn’t have errors and should be […]
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DIY: Beeswax Lotion Bars
These beeswax lotion bars are easy to make and smell amazing! They make your hands feel great without being greasy. I had found a recipe for homemade lotion bars a while back and made a batch. Unfortunately, they made my hands feel greasy and they took a while to absorb. I think it was the […]
Easy Standard Sandwich Bread
A few years ago, I started making my own sandwich bread on a biweekly basis. Good bread is really expensive here in Toronto (like at Cobs Bread), and cheap bread is really bad! And cheap bread is not even that cheap. As we are always looking to cut costs, I decided to bake my own […]
DIY: Crochet Berlin Cowl by Kiku Corner
We’d like to introduce our newest crochet pattern, the Berlin Cowl! If you’ve already purchased our Berlin Hat pattern, you can get the Berlin Cowl pattern at 50% off on Ravelry. We named the Berlin Cowl after the beautiful but gritty city Berlin, which we visited every summer as children. Overall, we found that the […]