Crowns
So here's another example of what I mean by having a bunch of building blocks and putting them together different ways. These are the crowns of the two hats from yesterday's post. And hat crowns are (generally) just 'ways to decrease while maintaining some of the lines of the pattern.' [...]
Stack them up
Ok, I'm going to be Very Brave and show you some Very Not Pretty Pictures so I can excitedly explain the next weird idea... Remember when I talked about how the thing that I've come to really love in designs is letting all the bits of a piece flow nicely [...]
Tidy
Because just one version is not enough...Also because oh, oh starting things off like that is just so very very very tidy that it makes my brain happy.
You pick!
We have a decision to make! One of these is going to come out, and you get to pick which. You can vote over here (it's a public post). Ok, so, these are both little...explorations that went along with a couple of last year's hat patterns. One covers duplicate stitch [...]
Flow
Ok, so I asked if we should talk about what changed between the first version of these (which were my very first pattern...fifteen years ago...when I did not know what I was doing) and the shiny new version that came out this week. And you said yes, so let's do [...]
Growth
So...I still have them. The first socks. From 15 years ago. And I have the shiny new version. Wanna see what's changed? First, a small caution, because my heart gets tender and squishy about things these days. My first inclination, any time I get better at anything, is to whisk [...]
Popped
Popped is back and oh, oh I have some feelings about this one! These came out fifteen years ago, and they were my very first pattern. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing—no clue how to write a pattern or take a decent picture. But somehow I talked [...]
Satisfying
Ya know those things you pick up and just want to play with? Like it's somehow satisfying to manipulate them? Yeah...this is one of those. Like really really really a lot. I promise it will make (at least a little) more sense when it's done. But oh, oh it's fun [...]
It depends
Do I block my swatches? Eh, depends on what I'm using them for! In this case, I was checking to see if I liked this stitch pattern with this yarn for a pair of socks I'm getting reknit. And since that was all I was doing, I totally could have [...]
Blocks
I've figured out the plan for these! We've been talking all week about how the thing my brain REALLY loves to do is come up with pretty stitches, and then come up with ways to work with them, to slide in an out of them, to shape fabric around [...]
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