The Purl Bee is the online journal of Purl, “a shop devoted to beautiful materials and tools for knitting, sewing, quilting, and other crafts.” Usually, blogs connected to online stores are not extremely exciting – just a scattering of sale announcements or new product descriptions – but The Purl Bee is much different! It is a beautiful little blog full of project ideas, tutorials, articles, and absolutely beautiful photography. From the site description, “The Purl Bee is a resource for technical help as well as inspiration: you can rely on our illustrated tutorials and glossaries to help you navigate new crafts. Ask Purl Bee offers an in-depth response to common questions about materials and techniques from our readers and customers.”

If you are a fairly serious quilter or knitter, you will love the large number of knitting and patchwork projects. Less avid crafters will also find projects of interest, like this recent Valentine Pin tutorial . The instructions are very clear and simple, with photos to help you out all along the way. So sweet. </em>