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Dancing Knits No. 4 is out today—please welcome Carolina Promenade! The Carolina Promenade, aka The Gay Gordons, is a great first English country dance. It’s a circle dance with two circles—guys on the inside and gals on the outside—moving in opposite directions, so that after after each sequence of steps, everyone gets a new partner. …
It’s release day for pattern No. 3 in my fall collection, Dancing Knits—Spanish Waltz! When planning out the designs for Dancing Knits, I knew there needed to be a design inspired by the Spanish Waltz, one of our group’s favorite dances (for the backstory on this, see my post from last week). It’s one of …
It’s finally the day—my autumn capsule collection in collaboration with Malabrigo Yarns, Dancing Knits, is open for preorders! During my teens, my parents hosted a English country dance at our house every fall—we didn’t have a ton of formal events in our circle, so it was a special chance to dress up and party. I …
Today’s the day! Hoa Sen Tee is out in full. There are a lot of top-down circular yokes out there in the world, which gave me a bit of pause as I was formulating this design. I don’t want to design patterns that don’t add anything to the world. You’ll recall from my preorder post …
Today we address a conundrum every shawl knitter must reckon with—people don’t wear shawls anymore. Even grandmas don’t wear shawls anymore (despite the fact that you will most certainly get called a grandma if you do), especially frothy lace bonanzas like Noblesse Oblige. But hey, just because nobody knits anymore doesn’t mean we shouldn’t totally …
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 …
“Music is not in the notes, but in the the silence between.” ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Silence Tee is out today! I’ve been blathering about it on here nonstop for the past few weeks, so I’ll be brief here. The biggest thing I have to say is how thankful I am to and for every …
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’m trying something new today—Silence Tee is available for preorder! Silence is a boxy, top-down tee with lace saddle shoulders and a square neckline. It’s graded for an inclusive range, with 12 sizes to fit 32″-74″ bust, and there are lots of ways to customize the fit. If I do say so myself, it’s one …
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 …