About The Design First new pattern in 5 months- who dis?!? Yeah, sorry about that y’all! I took a few months off of designing to focus on updating our website, growing our yarn shop (new update also drops there today, btw 😉) and raising 3 littles then thow the first summer after COVID restrictions lifted, the start of homeschooling our eldest, a run in with Hand Foot Mouth Disease and yet another COVID crisis in the mix and I’m excited to have anything to share with y’all let a...| A Purpose and A Stitch
My Why For Organization Being a stay at home mom of 3 littles (all within 4 years of each other), homeschooling our eldest, and running 2 businesses makes for a very insane schedule. And thats not even mentioning keeping house, grocery shopping and play dates. Over the last few years of running my business- I’ve picked up a few tricks on how to best stay organized. And I feel like I’ve tired it ALL. I’ve tried dry erase calendars and phone apps for my scheduling, I’ve tr...| A Purpose and A Stitch
About The Pattern Below you will find the free version of this fun color work beanie pattern, as well as some additional tools to help you make it. If you’d rather have a pre-color coded and printable version of this pattern with all the same pictures, you can purchase the inexpensive PDF from our Etsy and Ravelry shops. In addition to this PDF being a little easier to follow, 50% of all proceeds are donated to eradicating modern day slavery. Continue reading Rhombus Pop Beanie- Free Patter...| A Purpose and A Stitch
About The Design Its FINALLY here y’all! The Snowfall Raglan, in child sizes! 😅 (Want the adult size version? You can find that here.) You better believe that I am treating myself to a large helping of hot fudge sundae tonight as a reward for persevering and getting this pattern complete! If you follow along on Instagram, then you probably saw that the test for the child sizes on this pattern went through a LOT of adjustments to get the fit just right. Continue reading Snowfall Raglan Ch...| A Purpose and A Stitch
About The Post Below you will find the FREE pattern for this beautiful Tri Pocket Shawl. If you would prefer, you can purchase the inexpensive PDF from our Etsy or Ravelry shops. This colored, large font PDF is printable and easy to follow. Best of all 50% of all our PDF pattern sales are donated to eradicating modern day slavery. This shawl is fairly easy to make so I don’t have a step-by-step picture tutorial to offer you, but there is a video tutorial for making the triangle panels that ...| A Purpose and A Stitch
About The Design 895. That’s how many of you liked the first sneak peek of this sweater on our Instagram page! Now, that may or may not seem like a lot for you, but I rather felt like a viral sensation every time I hopped on my account and saw that our post had another 100 likes. 🥰 Whether or not you were one of the first to like that picture, it gave me a whole new level of excitement to share this pattern with you. Continue reading Snowfall Raglan- Free Crochet Pattern at A Purpose and...| A Purpose and A Stitch
About The Pattern It’s here, it’s here, it’s FINALLY here! I’m so excited to share our latest pattern with you all! This size inclusive color work raglan style sweater is available in 4 child sizes (18 month through 8 child) and 8 adult sizes (X-Small through 5X-Large). You can get the free adult sizes here and the free child sizes here. You can also purchase the inexpensive PDF with all the perks on our Ravelry and site shops. Due to the restrictions of Etsy, we have not been a...| A Purpose and A Stitch
About The Design Alright y’all, it’s finally here! Although, maybe not in the way you imagined it, but I’ve been promising it for a while, and had to live up to that… I’m referring to a video tutorial for the Brilliant Cables Beanie of course. Oh, you thought I was talking about this ornament cozy? haha, yeah no. This beautiful Cabled Ornament Cozy was a wonderful bonus of me setting out to record a video tutorial for working our braided cables in the round. Continue reading Cabled ...| A Purpose and A Stitch
About The Design The Brilliant Cables Beanie has been by and large our most popular beanie pattern to date (followed closely by our Fireside Beanie and our Jennie Beanie), but since publishing that pattern almost 2 years ago there have been 2 pretty consistent complaints (or constructive feedback if you will 😬) from followers. 1. The bulky weight yarn used to make the beanie too heavy and weighs the completed beanie down too much (please know neither I nor our testers felt this was an issu...| A Purpose and A Stitch
About The Design You guys! It’s FINALLY here!!! Can you believe it? I know I hardly can. I had originally designed this cardigan back when we didn’t all feel so bombarded with ick. That’s right, this cardigan has been in the works since Fall, 2019! Do you remember 2019? Back when Fall meant that kids […]| A Purpose and A Stitch