I have officially restarted the West Coast Swing cardi. In case I didn’t say so before, it’s knit from the hem up in one piece to the armholes where it splits for the back and fronts. That part is the same as before. I have 7,749 stitches done so far (27 rows of 287 stitches […]

The submissions are done. For now. They’re done in that they’ve been submitted. Both of them. Now we wait and see what happens. In the meantime, there’s been knitting afoot…
False Start
There are false starts, and then there are false starts. Don’t get me wrong, I love, love, ♥ both this yarn and stitch pattern, but […]

It’s official. Cuberos, sized for both scarf and shawl, is available for download at Patternfish. The printed patterns will be going out to yarn shops after I get it printed up.
Huge thank yous once again to everyone who participated in the naming event, with special thanks to Heidi (sadly blogless) who came up with the […]

When the folks at elann.com wanted to borrow my finished Gloriosa sweater for some modeled shots, I naturally said yes. They’d donated the yarn for the project, after all. They just got in a shipment of the lovely Peruvian Sierra Aran yarn, are doing a special, and have the photo of my sweater featured on […]

Over the last day I received more wonderful suggestions for the name for this scarf pattern, including:

tesseracts (from Madeleine L’Engle)
Tessalated Diamonds

My favorite came in last night. Heidi (sadly blogless) suggested Cuberos. This is what Heidi said:

I would suggest “Cuberos” or “Cuberus” from the words:
“cube” (based from the cubes/squares on the scarf)
“eros” (the primordial god […]

I’m having trouble naming my latest scarf design. You’ve seen un-blocked pictures of it before, but now it’s been blocked, and the gently scalloped edges show up to soften the angular regularity of the stitch pattern.

I asked my Facebook followers for some ideas, and these are the things they suggested:

Diamonds are a girl’s best […]

I used to have a lot of fun reviewing sharing my opinion of a variety of knitting publications. Let’s resurrect this activity with the latest Knitty: Fall 2010. I haven’t listed every pattern in the issue. Some because I didn’t like them, some that to me were just there, nothing special.
Sweaters
Beatnick by Norah Gaughan, […]

I’m going to make a concerted effort (I know, I know, I’ve said this before) to start blogging more again, and coming up with some interesting things.
I told you a while back that I named my Spanish Dancer pattern after a tiny sea creature called a nudibranch. There are a lot of different types […]

Instead of knitting holes I’ve been twisting a lot of stitches lately. There’s this pair of socks that I designed for Posh Yarn in Wales. The pattern doesn’t have a name yet, but there’s a line of tulips flanked by other twisted stitch motifs. I enjoyed knitting the socks. The test knitters seem to be […]

I actually have two new patterns out, and have been so busy that I haven’t had a chance to post about them here yet. I’ve been feeling like I’ve been running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Here are the two patterns.
Gloriosa
This is the cardigan that I’ve been working on since late […]