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Easy Dinner for More Cozy Lazy Evenings- Buffalo Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

The Perfect Winter Comfort Food:
Buffalo chicken stuffed sweet potatoes offer a delightful twist on traditional winter comfort foods. The combination of tender chicken, tangy hot sauce, and savory spices creates an explosion of flavors that will warm you up from the inside out. The creamy sour cream and cheddar cheese topping adds richness to the dish, while the crispy bacon bits and green onions provide a delightful crunch and freshness. But what truly sets this recipe apart is the choice to stuff the filling into sweet potatoes, which elevates the dish to a whole new level of deliciousness.

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Outsiders together, Are you a "Crafty Housewife?" - Highlight from Bizzy Crochet interview.

It’s ok not to fit in. I myself and too “traditional “ for some folks and too “ offensive” for others. I used to try to hide these things about myself first just in my life and then later in my business. I named my silly little crafting business which I was never planning to grow this larger “ Crafty Housewife Yarns” kind of as a joke because I was tired of being treated like having an interest in these sorts of things and having kids and prioritizing my family time was somehow making me less than. Really owning that joke really helped me put a name to a stigma that pissed me off. Then as business grew I found myself once agian trying to people please but now it was though branding. I was trying to make myself and this brand be the crunchy, perfect, flowly , feel good vibe that everyone in the fiber arts seemed to respond to.

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Top Tips for New Knitters

New Knitter Tips

everything from basic stitches all the way up through complex lace patterns and colorwork techniques.

Use these tips to learn how to knit!

We’ve all been there. You want to learn how to knit, but you don’t know where or how to start. Your best bet is a local knitting group! These groups are usually free and will give you the opportunity to meet other knitters and get feedback on your technique. Many of these groups also host workshops that teach different techniques and tricks so that you can get started right away.

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My Favorite Holiday Baking Gifts and Quick Knits.

These are my Mom’s recipes for the baked gifts she would always make our friends and nighbors at Christmas. We defiantly were’t a family who bought a million presents so these were the treats she would make once a year to take to people we cared about and I know we all looked forward to them. I have been making them for gifts myself for the past 10 years at this point I’d say and they are just scribbled on snaps of paper in my recipe box so I figured they deserved to be shared. The great thing about these three recipes is they sort of go together for a savory sweet treat. They also all involve rolling things into little balls so you can just make one huge mess in the kitchen and then clean it all up and be done. You also kind of just get on a “roll” with it. Also kids seem to love the part where you get to roll things in sugar so it’s pretty easy to out source some of the rolling while you pick up.

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Cottage Industry Collaboration for the Twice Sheared Sheep Knitter Advent Box

I”m so happy to be on this side of this project to be able to tell you all about this exciting collaboration we got to be a part of with two of my all time favorite lady run fiber arts empires. CHY was asked to contribute to two boxes for the cult fav knitter advent box from twice sheared sheep. This advent box is designed not just to be one more project you feel guilty about not finishing during the holidays but rather a box full of surprises and little treats to make your day all though out December. While all of these boxes are sold out this year ( a record number) I’m sure you can join Dawn’s Knitter Club and be in the know for next year.

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One Skein Patterns for Knitting and Crochet. Great for Hand Spun Yarn

I am a huge sucker for a one skein pattern. Working in the fiber arts I’m constantly having to shuffle and work on different things for different projects so when it comes to crafting for my own enjoyment I really love a project when I can just pick out that one cool skein that’s been calling my name and take with with me for car knitting or keeping my hands busy at my women’s bible study group.

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