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So Very Varied is your source for fabulous food and craft ideas. We cover sewing, baking, grilling, knitting, gluing, hammering, spicing, and everything in-between.
I purchased a new camera recently. It's one of the reasons the pictures on this site have improved. ;) Our last camera ended up getting a lot of scratches on the screen because we had no case for it. I wasn't going to let that happen to this new one, so I made a case myself.
My sister and her family visited during the winter holidays. While they were here, my sister borrowed one of our scarfs while she went on a walk through the neighborhood. Afterward she commented how warm the scarf made her feel. Apparently, she had never felt the need to wear one before and didn't know how great they are. So now that she is a scarf convert, I thought it only appropriate that I make her one.
I recenlty bought Amy Butler's "In Stitches" book. It is full of great projects for making items for the entire house. But when I saw her Kitty Tunnel pattern, I knew that had to be my first project to tackle. I made some 
Some friends threw a murder mystery party last weekend. The theme was Mardi Gras Masquerade. Now that is a theme that just yells out for a crafty project. So I had to answer the craft gods' call! I decided to make a masquerade mask.
I hate when I'm cooking, my hands are dirty, and I turn to the cookbook to check the next step only to find the pages have flipped. I don't want to use my hands to flip it back because I'll get the book dirty. But it is a pain to wash my hands just to flip a page. Well, I came up with a simple solution.
A few months back I made a simple ewrap hat for my newest nephew. He grew out of it very quickly and I offered to make a new one. My sister asked if I could do one with earflaps to protect his little ears. That sounded like a great challenge to me. Luckily, I found the perfect pattern in my new book - "Loom Knitting Primer"
The padding on the arms of my office chair started to flatten and I could feel the staples underneath. Every time I set my arm down with any pressure, I'd get pricked. It didn't take long for me to have enough of that, so off I went tearing my chair apart. And the results turned out better than I would have expected.
I found a great book on loom knitting. It is called "Loom Knitting Primer - A beginner's guide to knitting on a loom". This is a wonderful book for teaching loom knitting basic and advanced techniques. My first project was this winter hat pattern.
A few months ago, we finally decided it was time for a new laptop. Ours was 5-6 years old. The hinges that held the screen on were starting to break. There was a crack running along the top that was growing. And it just couldn't meet our needs with its limited RAM and processor speed. So we got a new laptop (yeah!), but I found a great way to salvage the old one. I made a digital picture frame out of it.
After creating 
