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Tutorial Update: Plus Size Fit Guide for the Perfect Summer Skirt! | Red-Handled Scissors

Tutorial Update: Plus Size Fit Guide for the Perfect Summer Skirt!

I’ve added a fancy new plus size fit guide to my Perfect Summer Skirt (with Pockets) tutorial! (Huge thanks to Amy at Knitty for her helpful feedback!) The updated fit guide includes the following fixes: Removing extra fabric fullness that can make the skirt look puffy/make the gathers around the waist look and feel too …

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Review: Foldio Portable Mini Photo Studio | Red-Handled Scissors

Review: Foldio Portable Mini Photo Studio

As a professional craft blogger, good photographs are one of the most important elements of my job. And, while I didn’t begin blogging with the intention of becoming a better photographer, it’s definitely a skill I’ve honed out of both necessity and the desire to share. Because, as it turns out, whether I’m capturing finished …

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Sunday Snapshot: Tiny Cranky Haley Cartoons | Red-Handled Scissors

Sunday Snapshot: Tiny Cranky Haley Cartoons

The Tiny Cranky Haley series. Because, turns out, the internet likes it when I post tiny cartoon drawings of me saying very cranky things. My Tiny Cranky Haley series began on Tuesday with an afternoon filled with irritations, a micron pen that hadn’t been put away properly, and the giant stack of blank notecards that …

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Knitting Pattern Review: Color Affection Shawl | Red-Handled Scissors

Knitting Pattern Review: Color Affection Shawl

You know that moment when you’re walking around your LYS, minding your own business, and suddenly you spot the perfect yarn? It’s magical yarn that pulls you in like a tractor beam. Yarn so great that it doesn’t even matter that you’re not sure what you’re going to do with it, exactly, because you already …

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