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New Free Knit Pattern: Easy Leaves Scarf

The Easy Leaves Scarf is an small bit of lace, a good choice for a beginner’s first lace project. I gotta say, though, that I was underwhelmed by the yarn, Classic Elite Premiere. It’s a cotton/tencel blend, and while it’s a pretty color and very soft, it’s unbelievably fuzzy and sheddy. I foolishly wore it [ READ MORE ]

Free Knit Pattern—Cardi Shrug

I have kind of a love/hate thing with shrugs. They’re small and generally fast and easy to knit, minimal shaping, should be everything I like in a knitting pattern. The fit though, well it’s hardly worth the ease and speed if I’m never going to wear it. They so often have that odd bracket, framing [ READ MORE ]

Measuring knit gauge sucks

This is why I like gauge-less projects so much. I HATE trying to measure gauge accurately. I know the right way to do it, I know about measuring over a large enough area, I know I’m supposed to launder the swatch, etc etc. It still sucks, and you can still be off, even if you [ READ MORE ]

Knit pattern e-books?

I’m working on e-book formatting, specifically ePub. Do you think you would ever use knitting pattern e-books? I don’t know how many knitters/crocheters might own e-readers, or ever use them for knitting. It could be quite handy for traveling, you could have books plus knitting patterns all loaded in to one device. I suppose I [ READ MORE ]

Free Pattern Friday—Aqua Waves Wrap (knit)

Finally! A new free pattern, the Aqua Waves Wrap. Someone made a specific request at last. If anyone is holding back making requests because you’re afraid of being a bother, rest assured, I actively enjoy anything that sparks new ideas. So this is a side-to-side shawl, mostly in nice, mindless stockinette stitch, with a knit-at-the-same-time [ READ MORE ]

My cutting edge stylin’s

Okay, it was my daughter’s idea. At the end of last summer, she asked if I could knit a particular lacy tank top pattern that she could use as a swim suit cover. Only she wanted the pattern adjusted so that it’d be fitted, and longer, and change the straps, and parts of it in [ READ MORE ]

My first pattern on Knit Picks

As part of the Indy Designer program on Knit Picks, I’ve got a new pattern for sale as part of a kit, the Fabulous Fibonacci Double-Knit Scarf (if you’d like to buy the pattern alone without the kit, it’s on Ravelry). The pattern only requires that you know how to knit, purl, do a long-tail [ READ MORE ]

Socks are a terrible knitting project, there, I said it.

Oh I know, lots of knitters just looove knitting socks. I’ve knit a whole lot myself, but I definitely have a love/hate thing going with them. The pros: They’re generally straight-forward. There are some wildly complex patterns, but most socks have a fair bit of easy knitting combined with some interesting bits. They’re almost a [ READ MORE ]

New Free Pattern—Cable Band Bag

The Cable-Band Bag pattern is up on KnitMonster now. I’ve gotten tons of compliments on my bag, it’s a great bag, elegant, and not too big or too small. I don’t have a lot of experience lining bags, so I ended up winging that part a lot; but I think it’s worth it to line [ READ MORE ]

Christmas lace and blizzards

We all trooped up to Kansas for Christmas to visit my husband’s family—me, husband, daughter, and all three dogs. Thanks to ipods and audiobook CDs, the 10-11 hour trip doesn’t seem so bad, and having the dogs along forces us to take frequent breaks. I got to experience my first blizzard while there, wheee. I [ READ MORE ]

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