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WIPs

Downsizing

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. …

Pattern Release

Pattern Releases—Bilbo’s Garden Doily and Cornice

That’s right, folks—I have not one, but two new patterns to share with you today! The first pattern isn’t technically new; release day was actually back in June, but between the craziness of Quiet Bay MKAL prep, a system glitch on LoveCrafts that held the pattern up for almost a month, and a general avalanche …

Design WIPs

Detours

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 …

Design Sneak Peek

I Hope I’m Doing This Right

Last week I mentioned that I’m going through the process of creating my first garment design. There are several other announcements in that post (and pretty yarn pictures!); you can read that here. Surprisingly, I haven’t experienced any major disasters yet. Okay, a thing or two may need to be reworked. But overall, I think …