Archive for the ‘ Knitting/Crocheting ’ Category

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 ]

New Free Pattern – Openwork Rib Scarf

A scarf done in openwork ribbing. The stitch has patternwork on every row, but it’s just basic yarn overs and decreases. The stitch is easy to memorize and easy to see your place in the pattern after you get used to it. Just wanted to get this one up before Christmas, you can get a [ READ MORE ]

Free Pattern Friday – Felted Dollhouse!

It’s up at last, the felted dollhouse! I think this one was worth all the trouble, but please please, if you try it and have any problems let me know, even if it’s anything very minor. I really want some feedback on how well this works out for anyone else, I’m a little nervous about [ READ MORE ]

Free Pattern – Scrunchy Rib Scarf

The latest free pattern, the Scrunchy Rib Scarf. I started out working garter rib, and figured I’d cut the work down by working it as a 2×2 instead of 1×1 rib; and then every other row is all knit, so it’s really easy, right? Well, then I realized it tends to roll up. I thought [ READ MORE ]

Viking Knits

I’ve been trying to figure out a new cabling method, working a cable like a motif and starting it in the middle of a piece instead of from the beginning. So obviously you’d work a reverse stockinette background, then do stockinette at the start of the cable, but how would you start a second branch [ READ MORE ]

Knitting Blogs

I feel like I should be following more knitting blogs than I do, I only have a couple bookmarked. One is the Crafty Cattery, she has an interesting recent post about geocaching; but the best thing is the anatomy doll (scroll down). Okay, maybe it’s a little… odd, perhaps even creepy, but it’s so clever! [ READ MORE ]

Poll Results

The results are in, shawls/wraps is the clear winner! Here’s a breakdown of how the votes went: shawls/wraps: 31 votes (34.4%) toys: 19 votes (21.1%) scarves: 16 votes ( 17.8%) sweaters: 10 votes (11.1%) afghans: 7 votes (7.8%) baby items: 7 votes (7.8%) I have to admit, I’m a little surprised that toys came in [ READ MORE ]

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