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How do you stay creative when life is busy? As a younger knitter, I used to crave complexity. Allover lace; intricate cables; innovative construction methods. Fields of stockinette? I’ll pass. I still love complex patterns. There’s nothing more thrilling than learning clever new techniques, trying fun stitch patterns, or manipulating fabric into (essentially) wearable sculpture. …
What little thing in life brings you inexplicable joy? Some of you might have guessed that I love the color red. After all, it’s literally in my business name. The business name actually comes from the red clay soil in my area, but did I use it as an excuse to make all kinds of …
Well, this isn’t what I thought my first post of the new year would be about. If you saw my last post of 2022, you’ll know I made…a lot of things last year. And that post just included the samples I made and was able to show, let alone the half-dozen more that I made …
Is it already that time again? Of course I know it is; I somehow survived the Christmas rush, even though I didn’t get nearly as much gift knitting done as I’d hoped, and I kind of fell off the face of the earth in terms of all the chatter and socializing I planned to do …
Two blog posts in as many days—is this strictly necessary? Yes. Because today, my friends, is Hobbit Day. For the uninitiated, September 22 is the birthday of both protagonists of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth saga, Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit) and Frodo Baggins (The Lord of the Rings). As a result, it’s become a sort of …
And just like that, it’s time for another pattern preorder. Please welcome Hoa Sen Tee! Hoa Sen is a top-down circular yoke tee with an architectural twisted stitch and lace pattern that mimics lotus flowers, graded to fit 12 sizes between 28″-72″ bust. It uses sport or light DK weight yarn, so it’s a quick …
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 …
I can’t believe I’m already typing this. Tomorrow is the last day of my designer residency at SweetGeorgia Yarns. It’s surreal in every way. First off, because it’s been quite the year. The work, the learning, my coworkers (more on this below)—have been above and beyond amazing. Second, because I don’t want it to be …
Some ideas, well, have their own ideas; and my job is just to keep up. If you’re subscribed to my email newsletter, you’ll recall this skein of yarn from Olivia of YarnBaker, one of my favorite small batch dyers. This is her Pimpernel colorway. I love me a good rich, dark red, but it has …