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Today’s a special day—my 50th pattern, the Hoa Sen Pullover, is out today! I’m kind of in shock, to be honest. 50 patterns in four years is a LOT of patterns; I literally didn’t realize how big my catalog was until last week as I was prepping this pattern for release. If I’d noticed sooner …
If you know anything about the internet knitting scene, you probably know that this little thing called Rhinebeck happened in upstate New York this past weekend. You know those fan conventions for Star Trek and Marvel and whatever else is cool these days? Rhinebeck is like that for fiber people—part state fair, part trade/animal show, …
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 …
Yep, I’m making a lot of them. I’m onto the body of my Prismatic! The colorwork actually stretched me a bit more than I expected; there are a few rounds of 3-color stranding, and quite a few long floats. But I’m quite satisfied with how it came out and can’t wait to block it. This …
Folks, don’t knit three adult-sized fingering weight sweaters at the same time. Not recommended. All that yardage, and those small needles, and so many rounds per inch…times three. It probably didn’t take much for you to figure out that that’s exactly what I’m doing. It wasn’t planned (that should also be self-evident, since it would …
After a long wait—Downstream Tee is finally here! As you’ll notice, Downstream Tee is my very first garment pattern; need I say more to explain why this release was emphatically not on time? I completed the sample more than two months ago, but between grading the design, going through multiple rounds of tech editing, and …
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. …
I’ve finished my Sea Glass Tee by Wool & Pine Designs! This was my impromptu summer memory project; I love it even more than I expected I would. There was more than one “I’m not sure why I thought this was a good idea” moment throughout the process (because neon pink…) but the final result …
The linen tee design is progressing apace! And oh, look—it has sleeves now! So far, astonishingly, no fiascoes have broken out. I have had to recalculate armhole and neck numbers (because, erm, I’m new at this), but I’m good to go, and thankfully I haven’t had to rip and reknit anything. While the trend is …
I’ve had a new personal project going for some time now. It started as a way to burn through some stash. Years of knitting and crocheting have left me with dozens of bits and clumps of yarn, leftover from as many projects. Add that to the budget acquisitions (it was on sale), yarns that didn’t …