I’ve been needing a fresh crochet stitch dictionary for a while; I’ve been working out of an old Reader’s Digest dictionary, which has a surprising number of useful stitches, since I started designing. Recently I’ve been asked to create some more crochet content, and I’m beginning to feel the limitations of my faithful Reader’s Digest …
Book Review—Sojourn: A Knit Lace Collection
Next month will mark the first birthday of Sojourn: A Knit Lace Collection by Knit Picks (as well as of my Fenestra Shawl), so a review seemed in order for this week’s post. ‘Ware lace! The collection contains 14 lace shawl patterns of varying shapes and difficulty levels; 6 triangles, 2 crescents, 4 rectangles, and …
Book Review: WeCrochet Magazine, Issue 1
It’s been less than three months since the soft launch of WeCrochet, the much-anticipated sister company of KnitPicks, and the new brand is already creating its own image and its own niche in the market. While many features of WeCrochet and KnitPicks are shared (yarns, hooks, web format, etc.), WeCrochet has spun out several unique …