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. …
Pattern Release—Spanish Waltz
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 …
Dancing Knits Preorders are Open!
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 …
Pattern Release—Hoa Sen Tee
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 …
Stitching Around the World
I think I’ve been bit by the knitalong bug this year! I’ve participated in one and hosted one of my own; I’m prepping for an MKAL next month (more on that soon) and here I am in the middle of another one, this time as one of several designers. The Around-the-World Stitchalong is a month-long …
Pattern Preorder—Hoa Sen Tee
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 …
4 Ways to Wear Noblesse Oblige; or, Make Percy Proud
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 …
Pattern Release—Noblesse Oblige
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 …
Pattern Release—Silence Tee
“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 …
Announcement: Behold, a Silence Tee Knitalong
It’s happening—a knitalong for Silence Tee! The full pattern releases in one week, next Wednesday; I can’t wait to get this pattern into your libraries! We’ll start knitting along the same week and continue merrily into July. And yes, there will be prizes, about which we shall have further to say anon. (Can y’all tell …