Gratitude Jar

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It is almost November and one thing that I like to do throughout the month of November is some kind of activity to help my family focus on gratitude. Obviously we think about what we are thankful for on Thanksgiving, but I like to stretch it out through the whole month if I can. Sometimes it is easy to focus on the hard stuff or the stuff that isn't going the way we want it to and forget about all of the wonderful blessings we have to be thankful for. 

Gradient Stripes Baby Blanket

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This is a pattern that has been on my idea list for a long time. I once saw an ad for a pattern from a yarn company that was a striped blanket made out of alternating stripes of 2 colors, but they used multiple shades of each color, so if every other stripe was pink some were a darker pink, some a lighter pink, while the other stripes may have been blue, with some darker, some lighter, and others in between. They were not necessarily in any order, like dark to light, just random from what I remember, and the blanket was knit, not crochet. And they definitely used multiple skeins of different shades of each color, not one ombre or gradient skein, but it gave me an idea.

Bewitching Bears Day 6- Little Vampire Bear

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Today is the final day, Day 6 of the Bewitching Bears Crochet Along. For the last bear in the set we have a Little Vampire Bear. 

Bewitching Bears Day 5- Little Ghost Bear

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Today is Day 5 of the Bewitching Bears Crochet Along, which means there is only one day left. Doing a one week crochet along instead of two weeks like I usually do makes it feel like it goes by so fast. I can't believe we are already almost done. For today's bear I made a Little Ghost Bear. 

Friday Five: 5 More Crocheted Pumpkins

 

Today is Friday, which means that in addition to today's Bewitching Bears pattern that will be released today, it is also time for another Friday Five- and with this one I mentioned a couple of weeks ago what the theme would be. Two weeks ago I shared 5 crocheted pumpkins and mentioned I would be doing a part 2 in a couple of weeks with 5 More Crocheted Pumpkins- so that is the theme for today. 

Bewitching Bears Day 4- Little Frankenstein Bear

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Today starts the second half of the Bewitching Bears Crochet Along, Day 4. Today's little bear is a Little Frankenstein Bear. 

Bewitching Bears Day 3- Little Candy Corn Bear

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It is Day 3 of the Bewitching Bears Crochet Along and since this crochet along is only 6 days long that means we are already halfway done! Today's little bear is a very simple one, a Little Candy Corn Bear. 

Bewitching Bears Day 2- Little Pumpkin Bear

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It is Day 2 of the Bewitching Bears Crochet Along and for day 2 I decided to make a smaller version of the original bear that inspired this whole crochet along. Today's little bear is a Little Pumpkin Bear.  

Bewitching Bears Day 1- Little Witch Bear

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Today is Day 1 of the Bewitching Bears Crochet Along! I shared all of the details of the crochet along in a previous post, and I will update that post each day with the links to each new bear. But as a quick reminder of how the crochet along will work there will be a new pattern each day from today(10/20/25) through Saturday (10/25/25) for a total of 6 patterns. Each one will be a little Halloween Bear. The day 1 bear is a Little Witch Bear.

Friday Five: 5 Halloween Cricut Projects

  

October is halfway over which means Halloween is just around the corner. Because of that I wanted to do one last Halloween themed Friday Five this week, but I wanted a collection of projects that could be made kind of last minute, that don't take a lot of time. For that reason I decided to share 5 Halloween Cricut projects today. 

Easy Fabric Pumpkin Coasters

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It has been a while since I made a sewing project and I have been wanting to make something for fall. I have had this cute little bundle of fall fabrics for a while, each little rolled up piece of fabric is a fat eighth, and I knew it would be perfect for what I had in mind. Especially because I was going to be making pumpkins and it had lots of pretty oranges. 

Bewitching Bears Crochet Along

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My Mini Amigurumi Crochet Alongs are some of my favorite projects that I do throughout the year, but this year I have struggled to get them planned the way I had hoped. I did my last crochet along in the spring and had plans to do another in the summer and fall but the spring crochet along hit at an incredibly busy time for me with family stuff and by the time I finished I was feeling very stressed out and burnt out. I kind of just stopped posting all together. We had a lot going on with our kids and life was feeling so busy and overwhelming and I just kind of stepped away from my blog a little bit. I had ideas I was really excited about for a summer and fall crochet along, but I found that although taking a break was easy and kind of happened unintentionally without a lot of thought, starting back up and getting back on track is a lot of work and has to be a lot more intentional. I couldn't quite get things together enough to get those crochet alongs going like I planned, and I was kind of sad about it because I had some fun ideas and I really do love them. I eventually consigned myself to the fact that I just had to wait until Christmas, but then as I was working on some fall/halloween ideas so share this month I decided to throw together a little crochet along after all. It is just going to be a little bit smaller and a little bit different than past crochet alongs this time around. 

Friday Five: 5 Crocheted Pumpkins

 

It is time for another Friday Five- and today I am going to do a fall theme that could be used for Halloween or Thanksgiving, or just general fall decorations. It is also going to be more than just one part because I have a lot more than 5. The theme for this week is going to be Crocheted Pumpkins!

Friday Five- 5 Halloween Treat Tags and Favors

It is time for another Friday Five- the first one in October, so this week we are going to have another Halloween theme for the roundup. This time I decided to focus on Halloween treat tags and favor ideas and projects. 

Printable Crochet Hat Size Templates

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A few years ago I used my Cricut to create some crocheted hat templates. Ever since then I have wanted to make a printable version, since the others were only helpful if you had a Cricut. A printable version would work for anyone. It has been on my to-do list forever and as we are heading into fall and crochet hat season I have been working on some new (and revamping some old) hat patterns so I figured this is the perfect time to finally get this project done.