Not your average knit/crochet blog

I found the most hilarious blog today and I just had to share it. It's called Handmade by Mother, and in it Victoria Dunn posts entire vintage knit and crochet patterns.

But beware, these are not your everyday patterns...



And the commentary on the patterns is freakin' hilarious.

A new look!

I finally changed the look of the blog. Blogger is turning out to be a lot tougher to work with than I had anticipated. Changing fonts is easy, but changing things that should be simple, like a background colour, is far from intuitive. It's darker than I would like, but at least it saves power, right?

I'll have to work on it some more, I swear. I am slowly but surely figuring this beast out.

Also, I finished the dress for the wedding! Pictures are to come, but it needs an ironing before any action shots are to be taken.

To day I made... A Blog!

Hello, and welcome to Intelligent Designs; my blog for anything about craft, creativity, and design.

First, an introduction. My name is Sonya (how do you do!) and I have been wanting to start a blog for a while. The ideas and creations of others have been so inspirational to me in the past, I thought I would pass along the help and information. I can't say just yet what this blog will evolve into, but here are some of the things you're likely to find here in the future:

• Sewing projects: Finished pictures and how-to's
• Knitting: My adventures with yarn and needles
• Cooking: Sometimes making tasty things can be so simple...
• General thoughts on the DIY movement
• Craft projects and inspiration

Hopefully some of the projects and ideas I post here will be inspirational to others. Here are some of the blogs I use as inspiration:

• Angry Chicken
• Make and Craft Magazines
• Craft Gossip: A craft blogging network
• Futuregirl: One woman's adventures in stitching
• Cut Out + Keep: Craft tutorials blog
  

There are many others - too many to mention here. I will certainly post links to them whenever I find something fun. Happy crafting!