This week I have the privilege of sharing some lovely projects with you. It’s always such a joy to see what you create! Let’s start with Cila. She made two different projects using Martina Behm’s Hitchhiker Beyond knitting pattern, but she added her own twist. She combined the pattern with assigned pooling colorways and stitches:… Read More Show and Tell November 2024
This has been a good productive week in the studio! I dyed Monet on several yarn bases. Here it is on Stained Glass Sock for the first time: Monet looks great with Purple Delight and Epiphany. I also dyed Monet’s Water Lilies this week, which is an assigned pooling colorway. Here it is on Twinkle… Read More Fresh from the Dye Pots
I have a new shawl pattern to share with you this week! The knits and purls work together to create a fascinating ripple effect, and the triangular shape reminds me of birds’ wings. After going back and forth a bit and getting some help from some of you on Instagram and Facebook, I named it… Read More Rippling Wings Shawl Pattern
This week I had lots of dyed-to-order orders to fulfill, so I took advantage of the opportunity to dye up more of those colorways for the shop. That means I have a veritable smorgasbord of colorways for you. I started with Afremov’s Farewell to Anger, which I now have on four different yarn bases. Here… Read More A Smorgasbord of Fresh Colorways
This week I dyed up three colorways that look great together and work well all year long. The colorways are Eggplant, Purple Delight, and Sapphire Dreams. I dyed them on four different yarn bases. Here are Eggplant, Purple Delight, and Sapphire Dreams all three together on Squoosh Worsted: – Squoosh Worsted is just like Squoosh… Read More A Trio of Lovely Colorways
This week I have been dyeing autumn colorways like mad. Some are old, some are new, and some are variations on a theme. I’d like to show you the colorways individually, and then I’ll show you some sets you can put together with them. The first colorway is a new one called Pumpkin Spice, which… Read More In Praise of Autumn – Cooler Weather, Warmer Colors
Good morning, and happy Friday to you. This weekend I am having a big Labor Day Sale! I always think of Labor Day as the start of the season for making lovely things for our friends and family for the holidays. You and I both know that that is truly a labor of love. To… Read More Labor Day Sale!
I have several things to show you this week. I have some project bags for you as well as a new button-down cowl pattern I just published. Also, the last day to order yarn for Deborah Bowanko’s Buds and Blooms Knit-Along will be this Saturday, August 10th. Before digging into each of these, I just… Read More Project Bags, a New Cowl Pattern, and the Last Day to Order Yarn for the KAL
This week I was inspired by a customer named Judy who reached out to me. She had just bought the Angel Wings Ponchette pattern, and she emailed me for colorway suggestions to go with it. What she really wanted was to make it look like the original here with the gradient from dark to light:… Read More Some New Colorways for the Angel Wings Ponchette Pattern
Over the years, I have interviewed quite a few amazing designers, and I thought I would take a moment this week to put links to all of them in one place so you can see what your favorite designers had to say. Here they all are: With that said, I would love to hear back… Read More A Review of Interviews
