Just released: Diamanten. You can also see it on Ravelry and on Patternfish.
I found these diamond stitch patterns when looking through a book of old German charted designs that date back to the early 1900s. I updated the designs to use both left- and right-leaning decreases, used a modern method of denoting the stitches in […]
You’ve probably all heard about the deluge of rain California has been hit with recently. Rain wasn’t the only thing we got. At higher elevations there was also snow.
While we obviously got a lot of rain, for the most part our neighborhood came through just fine. There were some very small areas were a […]
There’s so much to catch you up on, I don’t even know where to start. I’ve been knitting like a mad woman, designing new things, printing and stuffing patterns into sleeves, and shipping them off to my distributor, labeling blocking wire tubes and getting them shipped out (I’m currently behind by about 300 labels), coordinating […]
It’s done! It’s finally done! Woohoo! I swear, I think I ripped out the pieces of this sweater and re-knit them more times than anything else I’ve ever knit. Honestly, except for the back, which was only knit twice, each piece was knit at least four or five times. Some of the ripping back and […]
Eight years ago today our country was shaken by terrorist attack. I had this picture and quote on my old web site for a long time. It felt right to bring it back today. In remembrance.
A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest […]
After a yummy stuffed pork chop dinner and a movie, we wandered out onto the deck last night for a short nightcap and to enjoy the evening air. Ricki loves evenings on the deck. She was out there and waiting for us long before we had everything arranged. We finally got our ducks in a […]
I received a nice surprise in the mail this week. Yarn. Unexpected yarn.
I told you late last year that I’d designed a cowl, Basket Whip, with the same stitch I used for Flying Lindy (socks), Sugar Push (fingerless mitts), and Syncopation (tank top). I believe I also mentioned that I talked to Classic Elite […]
I haven’t been blogging, obviously. Sorry about that. I’ll post as I can, as much as I can, as often as I can. Not that the schedule’s likely to change much in the near future. I hope you can hang with me…
Thornbury progress
I’ve made marvelous progress on the oriel shawl. I’ve done several repeats […]
No. Not the whole thing. Probably. But a goodly chunk of it. Never mind that I didn’t pin it out very well. That’s easily fixed later, when the knitting is actually done. But see that top edge, after the corner turns? I don’t like it. It isn’t working for me. At all. You can sort […]
Thankfully the access mess that was created yesterday by that denial of service attack seems to have gotten straightened out. I think I’m still getting email that came in during that. If you sent something to me, and got no reply, please resend your message.
So far it just looks like a big triangle knit from […]