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Little sleeping hours, restless mind and a heavy heart. All I wanted this week is to stay close to my yarns. Here is a life update from our little roof top apartment in Ramat Gan Israel these days. … In one of the conversations with our little son ​(11 yo) ​he told me this: “I feel a pain inside my heart whenever there is a missile sirene​“. I looked at him and had nothing clever to say. We hugged close and long. ​He described it as simple as that. I literally feel pain in my heart whenever it comes. I…

Have you already made plans for your Spring crafty project? Over the last few weeks I’ve been updating my Etsy shop, so more and more kits and yarn packs are back in stock. In other words, the shop is back in full colorful festive now and therefore I thought it might be the right time for a little seasonal celebration. Let’s celebrate it with a Cotton Crochet Blankets – Spring Sale! Celebrating Spring Spring is in full power here in Israel. Such a short season, it breaks my heart. Our balcony garden blooms so wildly and it makes me take…

These beautiful Jelly Rolls socks by Mara Catherine Bryner are a special guest on my YouTube channel this week. I finished knitting the toe about two weeks ago and was just about to graft the stitches. I thought it would be a good idea to add the Kitchener stitch on socks knitting into my video tutorials using ​this joyful ​pair as a model.​ Kitchener stitch Is a technique of grafting together two lines of live stitches by creating a new row of stitches between them. It’s the last part of socks knitting, after shaping the toe. It creates a magic connecting the…