Needles, Hooks & Dirty Looks

This week we're talking all things Mom. Join us as we discuss Mother's Day gifts plans and everything in between.

It's almost summer break and these kids are going to be eating us out of house and home very soon. Let's talk meal prepping for summer ? What are your favorite grab and go snacks to have ready? Join us this week as we cover it all.

This week we're branching out and talking about crafts that don't involve yarn. Join us!

This week we're covering all things Easter! Join us as we dive into Easter projects and plans. How is it already late April?!? Of course we'll have a dlotw while we're at it too.

How do you know to accept defeat and call it quits on a pattern that just doesn't work out? Join us this week as we dive into our feelings about ripping out and starting over for the pattern to still just not work out. As usual we cover all the other miscellaneous items and dirty looks too!

Let's talk gardening! Do you plant seeds early or just wait and pot plants? What are your favorite herbs to grow? We're here to discuss it all join us!

This weekWe're here to dream plan vacations and weekend trips for the upcoming summer season. What are your favorite go spots? Join us as we also cover the double sunrise.

It's that time of year again! The birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and spring cleaning is upon us! Join us this week as we cover our favorite cleaning goods and our least favorite things to clean. We also dive in on some true crime happenings and bringing our astronauts home!

Do you have a preference when you are working a project that calls for a magic circle? Join us this week as we discuss which we prefer and why along with our other weekly shenanigans.

This week we're talking all things early spring!! The sun is shining the birds are singing and it's nearly springtime! What are your favorite spring time projects to work on? We are suckers for retro stripe yarn. Join us as we cover it all including a few dirty looks.

Seqson 5 episode 1! Let check in on those goals!! Did you stay on track in getting your goals knocked out or have they fallen to the wayside? Either way it's only February and you have plenty of time to get back on track! Join us as we cover sourdough bread and blizzards!

This week we're here to cover homemade valentines ideas and projects. Love is in the air and we are all for it! We're also dosing out some dirty looks this week and Sarah's might shock you. Join us!

Let's dive in this week with all of the weather related wives tales. Here in the IS we just celebrated Groundhogs Day to determine how many more weeks of winter we have left. What other crazy wives tales did you grow up with?

Join us this week as we talk about uses for that pesky scrap yarn sitting in the bin. We keep looking at it and never know what to do with it but not anymore!! We're also full of dirty looks this week so give a listen and join in the fun!

Join us this week as we celebrate everyone that is a baker, crafter, and maker! We're catching up on our new crocheting and baking adventures and here for the dlotw that us all things Billy Ray Cyrus. Can we discuss how necessary an intervention is yet?

We're changing gears this week as we walk down the path of hot rollers and curling your hair. Jump in with us as we uncover the winner of sleepable curling options. Also join us for a Texas sized dirty look of the week. We're talking about it all, come with us!

In follow up to last week's discussion about our new year, new hobbies, we are back this week discussing some epic failures. Poor Sarah has quite the sour dough saga. Join us as we uncover exactly what happened and how we're moving forward on future attempts.

We're ringing in the new year and trying out someNew hobbies! Join us as we cover it all and discuss our 2025 goals!

We wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Holidays for whatever you celebrate. We will be back next week with a full episode to discuss 2025 goals!!

This week we're here talking about holiday traditions. What has your family always done? Anything you plan to pass down or perhaps start a new tradition? Let's talk about it!

Last minute Christmas gifts, let's talk about it! We're in the final crunch before Christmas and we're covering last minute gifts maybe handmade, maybe not! Join us!

It's Thanksgiving week and we are here to talk all things Turkey (and sides). Join us this week as we also dose out a dirty look of the week to a very familiar and popular tumbler brand.

This week we want to talk small business. Did you take your hobby and turn it into a small business? Let's talk about it. Sarah is full of dirty looks this week and Brittany had one for a certain chicken place but they redeemed themselves so a reverse dlotw. Join us!

Welcome back! We missed everyone last week and are so glad you're joining us to catch up! We covering holiday projects, dirty looks and trash

How do you prioritize which projects to work on? It's a real struggle sometimes to work on projects you're burnt out on but need to get done. What keeps you motivated? Join us this week as we dive in to all projects priority levels.

Working on a project that has suddenly become t the name of your existence? Same!! This week we're covering the burnout of current WIPs. We also are giving out DLOTW to adulting and new roofs. Join us!

It's cold y'all! Have you broke down and kicked the heat on yet? One of us has already but the bullet. Join us tonight to discuss cold weather and the current trends in homecoming fashion.

This week we want to hear all any your favorite handmade Halloween costumes. There is so much creativity out there that it still surprises us to see the incredible talent behind the making of the costume. This week we're giving out story looks as well! Join us!

It's fall y'all! That means it's time to start making plans for 2025, it's right around the corner! Personal goals, financial goals, yarn goals, we're here for it all, join us!

This week we're talking all the home remedies and preventatives to keep from getting sick. All the kids are back in school and so are the germs. Do you use elderberry or fire cider? Listen in as we also have tons of dirty looks this week. We aren't fans of several connections in the same skein nor when the skein gets all ratted and knotted inside from center pull. Join us for the fun!

This week we dive into planning your holiday gift projects. We might also derail a little with multiple dirty looks this week. We're throwing shade at everyone! Join us for all the shenanigans!

Episode 32: Maybe I did NOT make too much…Follow up to last week with us and see how much stock was moved at the corn festival! We cover our favs and our dlotw, join us!

Welcome back everyone! What do you do when you've made too much stock for festivals? Do you discount your product to move out the old? Do you wait and see how the festival goes to gauge for the next? Join us this week as we cover it all!

Welcome back! This week is Sarah's birthday week and we're talking about gratitude for the coming year! School is back in session and if you're a Mom, you'll appreciate our DLOTW this week! Join us for all the fun!

Welcome back this week and thanks for your patience. We jump out early for DLOTW and we're here to cover best teacher gifts! Join us this week as we cover everything we've missed in the last week!

This week we're all about college colors and fall sports like football making a reappearance! Join us as we cover all the fall fun!

It's the final push to finish up those pesky projects we've been putting off. How do you find the motivation to press forward instead of procrastinating? Join us this week as we come up with a game plan!

Welcome back! This week we're talking new decades, new goals, and crushing the fabulous 40's! Tomorrow is Britt's 40th birthday and I'm breaking the mold we aren't sad about it, we're excited to tackle a new decade and new goals. We have also decided to plan a trip to ring in the new decade in 2029 and we still need your ideas of where to go?! Join us this week as we dive down the rabbit holes together!

Welcome back friends! This week we are trying to figure out why everyone's gotta be a hater. We fell down a rabbit hole watching diy crafting reels and nearly every single one had a super negative first comment. Whyyy?!???? Also this week honest opinion on cheese stuffed sausages with pasta recipe. Join us as we cover it all along with our current WIPs and dlotw!

Happy birthday America! This week we are diving in on all the holiday fun in celebrating our Nation's Independence! The downside of being a fiber artist is being asked and tagged in tons of posts this week as people share the ever popular American flag blankets! Join us as we jump in to it all!

We have some exciting news about a new segment we're covering in our weekly chats “Honest Opinion”. Each week we're going to add in our true feedback on a new recipe. Good or bad we'll let you know. Have a recipe you want us to try? Let us know!

Woahhhh it's a heatwave across most of the US. Let's talk about hot projects and vacation! What are your favorite summer heat patterns or projects? Join us!

Yarn bombing, what's that? Well today is National Yarn Bombing day and we're here to talk about it! This beautiful and creative outlet for fiber artists has taken storm across the world. Join us this week as we dive in to all things yarn bombing!

Father's Day, graduations, weddings and birthdays! This week we are all about the gifts for the guys in our lives. Looking for some quick work up ideas that are manly? Look no further. Join us this week as we cover it all!

The long weekend has come to an end so quickly! Did you use your time off productively or just enjoy a break to slow it down a bit? Now that it's over, how do we refocus our energy and get back on track? Join us as we cover it all!

The unofficial kick off to summer is this weekend, let's talk about it!! Whether you are grilling out, traveling, or staying home for the long weekend, we are here to cover all things summer!! Join us this week while we talk our favorite summer time patterns and happenings!

This week we're back and here to just talk about life in general and the chaos of why we missed last week. Let's catch up together!

This week is National Small Business Week! All small businesses start out with big goals, let's talk about them. Where do you start? Join us!

Why not throw in a new craft to learn?! What harm could happen? This week we fall down the embroidery and needlework rabbit holes. How are people so creative?

Have you ever shown up to a craft show only to find another vendor nearby selling the same kind of craft for a tenth of the price? How do you combat competition that sells out and cheapens your craft because “I just do it for fun” or “I just want to earn my yarn money back”. It's frustrating for sure, let's talk about it!

This week we're talking about frogging projects out or cutting you losses. No one ever willingly wants to rip out thousands of tiny hard worked stitches, but what do you do if you find a mistake? Or if you don't like the way the project is working up? Cut the yarn and chuck it or frog it all back? Join us to talk about it all!