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Now that I don’t sell recycled crafts and vintage anymore, my old Etsy shop has just been sitting empty for months. So I decided to turn it into my pattern shop. Thankfully Etsy finally decided to start letting people change their shop names, so it’s now caracorey.etsy.com. I also finally got together a pattern for [...]
Tomorrow is my second A Fair to Remember show in Jack Kerouac Alley, and I’m super excited. I will have a lot of the same things I had last time: A big pile of poufs, fingerless gloves, seed stitch dish cloths… But then I will also have a lot of new items. After the last [...]
I discovered a few years ago that the world’s best dish scrubbers are handmade with inexpensive cotton yarn. But I’d always thought it was the bobbled crochet stitch that made them so great. Not so! I actually think that a seed stitch works even better for creating a grime-fighting texture. And I love the way [...]
At long last, I am finally ready to show you the knits I’ve been making with giant rolls of cotton rope. The testing process has been absolutely exhausting and expensive, far more than I ever thought it would be. But the end result is super fun, and I can’t wait to show it off. I [...]
Mother Nature finally caught up with us the last couple days. It is nasty out there! Chilly, windy, rainy, and every once in a while it starts hailing. When it’s like that outside it’s always a little chillier inside, too, so I decided I needed some fingerless gloves to wear around the house. The alpaca [...]
I almost forgot to share this with you! After a fresh coat of purple paint, my knit sign is complete. I think it turned out really well. After I did the lettering I felt like it needed a little something extra so I made some crochet flowers with extra yarn I had. Now I just [...]
I realized the other day that it’s taken me so long to feel ‘moved in’ because it’s not just that I moved really far away to a completely new life, but that I haven’t had time to do much of anything around the house for the last few months. I basically went from my wedding [...]
I’ve been working on some new designs for the new year (hope you had a great celebration, by the way!). In hopes of improved time management and sanity, I’m paring down my offerings to a few styles that I will have in a variety of colors. I found a new roving yarn that I absolutely [...]
Is it time for fall yet? I say that because even though the leaves are turning and we have three pumpkins on our front porch, it has been so unseasonably warm this October that it hardly seems authentically fall. You might remember that last year in early October it snowed! But two weekends ago when [...]
It’s a vintage pouf! I have a special place in my heart for this object, which my mom brought me, because I make knitted poufs for one of my Etsy shops. Mine look like this: I thought these were kind of a modern Scandinavian creation, but it turns out they have totally been en vogue [...]
Two of my crochet patterns — vintage hanger covers and a colorful granny square pillow — have been published in a new book. You can now order So Pretty! Crochet, by my talented friend Amy Palanjian, at Amazon.com. 
