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This week’s post was supposed to be Indie Gift-A-Long Week 2. However, I’ve actually made next to no progress on my GAL projects, in part because I’ve been working on this: That’s right, there will be Cluaran Mittens and a Cluaran Hat! As soon as I finished knitting the Cluaran Cowl, I knew I wanted …
A few months back, Selena from Wool & Pine Designs approached me about preview knitting for Wool & Pine’s new collection for children. In other words, they hit some of their bestselling designs for adults with a shrink ray. Needless to say, I jumped on that bandwagon faster than you could say knit. Now, towards …
Y’all remember my recently finished Seaglass Tee by Wool & Pine Designs. I won’t regale you again with how much fun it was, or all the attending philosophizing. But I bring it up because that tee brought me an extra-special opportunity… Wool & Pine is a design team of two talented women, Selena and Abbye. …
You’ll often hear that knitting & crochet are good soothing activities for people with anxiety issues, because it helps them to feel safe and in control. Not so; not so. Well, not if you’re a designer, anyway. At times I wonder if the good folks out there in the slow making/slow knitting movement have any …
I’ve had a new personal project going for some time now. It started as a way to burn through some stash. Years of knitting and crocheting have left me with dozens of bits and clumps of yarn, leftover from as many projects. Add that to the budget acquisitions (it was on sale), yarns that didn’t …
Yep, this is one of those posts—I’m working on a quadzillion fun, exciting things, but I can’t show them to you yet. Of course they’re rather out of season too. I’m currently working on Fall/Winter releases, and it’s almost 100 degrees outside. Humidity 37%. But I can always show you my personal projects (unless I’m …
And…it’s done! By ‘it’, I mean my Barocco sweater (Ravelry link) by Stella Egidi, my project for the SweetGeorgia Yarns Spring Make-Along. Following up to last week’s post, my knitting needles did come in. Some furious sleeve knitting ensued; but because the process of knitting a sweater is too exciting not to document, I did …
I wonder at times if the draw of creative pursuits, especially during times of stress (ask all the folks who learned to knit during lockdowns last year), is their apparent capacity to ensure a certain outcome. Do your research. Measure. Swatch. Prewash your yarns (yes, I am that kind of weird). Follow the instructions, learn …
The last couple of weeks have been an epic speed-knitting marathon for me, which should mean that I have lots to show today; problem is, I can’t actually show it to you yet. One of the wacky things about working in the knitting industry is that everything is done 9-12 months ahead of time, which …
On the best of days my works-in-progress basket is…largish. I’m a chronic case of what knitters call startitis; the good news is I only have so many circular needles. After a while I start wondering “Where are all the size 4s, anyway?” and am forced to go rummaging. But one of my general craft resolutions …