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Have you ever knit something that pushed you out of your comfort zone, and been so glad you did it? My latest pattern, the Tesselis Shawl, is like that for me. Not because it’s a hard project, because it’s actually a potato chip knit. Simple lace, easy textures, and a few rows of slipped stitches …
It’s the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere, but Lord of the Rings fans are excited about something else entirely: it’s Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday, aka Hobbit Day! I’ve celebrated Hobbit Day here on the blog with various highjinks in past years (see last year’s nonsense), but I’m extra excited about this year—because …
While pretty yarn isn’t an immediate cure for a knitting slump (if it were, I’d have never fallen into one), it certainly does help. I’m currently in the thick of an exciting collaboration with Jensen of Sugarplum Circus, using her Eco Sport yarn. It’s my first time working with a wool/tencel blend, and I’m hooked. …
Maybe my favorite thing about the point I’m at in my knitwear design career is that I finally have the traction to collaborate with “dream” dyers and yarn companies—companies that get tons of collab requests and have to pick and choose. One of my dream collab partners? La Bien Aimée. I’ve come up watching them …
They seek him here, they seek him there… Noblesse Oblige is out today! And if I do say so myself, this is a fun one. This post is going to be commensurately long, so if you just want to know where you can get this and what the discount code is, skip thou to the …
Yesterday, a designer friend asked me on Instagram to talk about the design inspiration for Silence Tee. I got excited, since that’s something I love talking about but didn’t necessarily think others would be interested in. This info will be dispensed in smaller chunks on Instagram later, but I thought it would be fun to …
Sometimes things just…work out grandly. I’ve been working up a design based on the sketch I showed in last week’s post. It’s a half-pi shawl with a variety of lace motifs and slip stitches bordering the different sections. The semi-circle is one of my favorite shawl shapes, but I haven’t designed one since Fenestra (Ravelry …
The last few weeks have been pretty scatter-brained, even for me! My needles and hooks are going like mad but there are only a few things I can actually show you. So today I bring you a bubble-and-squeak of the things I can. First off, I’ve currently got a testing call running for the Silence …
I’m starting to get quite nervous, because this design is working up exactly the way it’s supposed to. I shouldn’t be getting nervous. I should just be really, really excited that for once I’m not having to make any unplanned panic decisions because my gauge is off or I got my lefts and rights confused …
Folks, don’t knit three adult-sized fingering weight sweaters at the same time. Not recommended. All that yardage, and those small needles, and so many rounds per inch…times three. It probably didn’t take much for you to figure out that that’s exactly what I’m doing. It wasn’t planned (that should also be self-evident, since it would …