Archive for the 'Designing' category

Busy, busy, busy

Friday, January 22, 2010

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 […]

Brown sweater finally done!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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 […]

Remembering

Friday, September 11, 2009

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 […]

Grasshopper and knitting

Monday, August 24, 2009

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 […]

A little yarn pron & a finish

Saturday, August 22, 2009

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 […]

Stole progress and Twist

Monday, August 17, 2009

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 […]

The plan is to rip

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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 […]

More bias knitting

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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 […]

Knit on the bias

Thursday, July 23, 2009

There’s a been pretty quick turnover of patterns lately. You know about Quenington, a fun zigzag scarf I did last week. It’s being test knit by Elisabeth (sadly blogless). Then there was a secret project. It’s all done but the testing. Yes, I designed and knit two projects in about nine days. Sort of scary, […]

Promises, promises

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Back on July 13 I promised I’d give you more information about the Sevilla design. I can’t believe it’s been more than a week already! Gads. Sorry about that. Here’s the pattern info for you:

Pattern: Sevilla, of my own devising, currently being test knit by Dixie.
Yarn: Fibre-Isle, Kami Bison, 2 hanks in Bleuice.
Needles: Size […]