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It’s the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere, but Lord of the Rings fans are excited about something else entirely: it’s Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday, aka Hobbit Day! I’ve celebrated Hobbit Day here on the blog with various highjinks in past years (see last year’s nonsense), but I’m extra excited about this year—because …
Maybe my favorite thing about the point I’m at in my knitwear design career is that I finally have the traction to collaborate with “dream” dyers and yarn companies—companies that get tons of collab requests and have to pick and choose. One of my dream collab partners? La Bien Aimée. I’ve come up watching them …
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 …
The last few weeks have been pretty scatter-brained, even for me! My needles and hooks are going like mad but there are only a few things I can actually show you. So today I bring you a bubble-and-squeak of the things I can. First off, I’ve currently got a testing call running for the Silence …
I’m starting to get quite nervous, because this design is working up exactly the way it’s supposed to. I shouldn’t be getting nervous. I should just be really, really excited that for once I’m not having to make any unplanned panic decisions because my gauge is off or I got my lefts and rights confused …
Some ideas, well, have their own ideas; and my job is just to keep up. If you’re subscribed to my email newsletter, you’ll recall this skein of yarn from Olivia of YarnBaker, one of my favorite small batch dyers. This is her Pimpernel colorway. I love me a good rich, dark red, but it has …
I’m back from a brief hiatus with something exciting to show you! After Glimpses of Autumn came out last fall (Ravelry and Payhip links for interested parties), several people asked for a winter version with snowflakes. Originally, Glimpses of Autumn was supposed to be a one-off, but designing it was so much fun that I …
This week’s post was supposed to be Indie Gift-A-Long Week 2. However, I’ve actually made next to no progress on my GAL projects, in part because I’ve been working on this: That’s right, there will be Cluaran Mittens and a Cluaran Hat! As soon as I finished knitting the Cluaran Cowl, I knew I wanted …
The contents of this post will reveal why my blogging schedule went sideways this week—I’ve been working on a lot of stuff. First up is the SweetGeorgia Mystery Knitalong, which has eaten largish bites of my waking hours over the last few weeks. There’s not actually anything to show for this one yet (mystery…), but …
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 …