Tales of a Techno-Hooker Crochet Blog by Amie Hirtes

Sometimes it’s important to assess what you currently have going on in your life and make changes, updates, and improvements. New clothes. A new hairdo. Repaint the bedroom. Assess and downsize personal inventories.
And sometimes it’s important to realize what you have is so far outdated that it needs to be scratched and started over. “86′ed” [...]

Finally. A published pattern. FINALLY.
I’ve been sitting on this pattern for a year and a half. That’s right. You aren’t seeing things. I did say A YEAR AND A HALF. Designers are known to come up with a bevy of ideas and sit on some of them, but it’s not so usual to be near [...]

SCRATCH THAT: But it here!
We’re oh-so close to releasing the 3rd and final volume of the Bag Book series from SFTD Online. (I will update this post when we go live).

Strapped For Bags, Volume 3 featuring:
A Crocheter’s Backpack by, Amy O’Neill Houck
Hip Hoppin’ Backpack by, Dee Stanziano
Knot Bag by, Doris Chan
Scrap Yarn Bag by, Marty Miller
Crochet Small Wire Bag by, Noreen Crone-Findlay
Felted [...]

Natalie Zee Drieu from Craft Magazine posted some link action to my Adobe Illustrator tutorials. It’s always nice to get some link action from the crafty mavens at Craft.

It’s kinda funny, and yet amusingly odd to see my computer’s desktop for all the Internets to see over at Craft…

Here’s a sneak peak of a handbag pattern that I had started a long, longgggg time ago and finally finished this week. This bag is totally my style. I’m a beach girl through and though, so I chose to make it with raffia (Wraphia by Berwick). The bag has been embellished with embroidery and surface [...]

Maybe it’s just me – and correct me where I’m wrong – but I thought that some yarn companies and yarn store owners were having a tough time in today’s economy.
Well, maybe that ’some’ is literally just a few in number, because on the main page of ABC News today, there’s a video article about [...]

Dee, as in “Crocheting with Dee,” just informed a group of us that Interweave has a new online store and they’re running an affiliate program too. Interesting. I signed up. I think I’d rather support those who support my beloved craft, than support Amazon, the giant of all giants. If you’re interested, you can check [...]

…Partay? (It was the only thing that I could think of to rhyme)
And you know what’s cool about this survey? It’s being held by Mary Beth Temple of Hooked For Life Publishing and Getting Loopy fame and she’s giving away a skein of Lion Brand Stainless Steel Wool, if you’re interested in putting your name [...]