If you go to my Ruth Nguyen designer page on Ravelry, you’ll see that the Facets Cowl is my most popular pattern. The design was published just over 3 months ago, and truth be told that was an accident (a happy one; that’s another story!). But that means that today I get to show off …
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 …
A Shawl Story: Epilogue
Kodama No. 4 is finished! When I took on the project, I set a deadline of December 14; the shawl was bound off two days ago, blocked yesterday, and unpinned today 24 hours ahead of schedule, which means that the total working time (not counting Sundays, where I let the shawl rest) clocks in at …
Lace Madness
You know that you live in the Deep South when it’s December and most of your WIPs are lace projects; the rest of the United States (except maybe Hawaii) probably stopped knitting lace back in September. But around here, we’re rather funny that way. Kodama No. 4 is progressing without event (for the full tale …