AlterKnit (review and giveaway)
I don't know about you, but I have a tendency to just jump in to new projects without much in the way of advance planning. I find if I spend too much time researching something ahead of time, I'm apt to convince myself it's too hard and just not do it. I like to get just enough of an intro to grasp the basics then dive in and figure the details out as I go (obviously I keep this to low risk pursuits like making marshmallows or sewing curtains...not things like messing about with wiring or getting the perfect dinner [...]
Rainbows
So normally, I'm very nearly brutal about throwing away yarn leftovers. I rarely use them, so I just don't keep them. But I have this thing where I sort of love to make little mini skeins from all of the yarns I use in book projects. I tell myself it's 'for reference...in case there's a question about the yarn.' Which sounds grand. But I suspect it's because I often don't knit book projects myself and so I want to spend a little extra time with the yarn. And also just because they're awfully pretty! These are the skeins for Silk [...]
Upcoming
So you know those socks? The gray swoopy ones from back here? Well, they went and changed colors on us... And somehow morphed into two variations on the theme... Because really, who doesn't like options! And they'll be out at the beginning of August. If you're on the mailing list, you'll get a coupon when they come out (someone always asks, so I'll be all clever and answer ahead of time, folks on the mailing list get a different and bigger coupon than the one I list on the blog/instagram/twitter). You can make that happen over here if you want [...]
I’m sensing a theme
So yeah...things have been a tiny bit busy (finalizing patterns for Curls 3...getting ready for Silk Road Socks launch...oh yeah and another slightly terrifying project I'll tell you about some time later this summer if it doesn't do me in first). And that means I am not doing nearly enough knitting. We were away for more than a week and I knit about 4 rows of that silly face cloth. And we've been home for more than a week and well...I've knit about 4 more rows. I don't think I've ever knit this little (and I'm quite sure I don't [...]
Super duper bonus fun
So I know on the first and third Tuesdays I usually release a pattern, but today I wanted to do something a tiny bit different. Today I've updated the version of Curls 2 to include links to the Stitch Maps for each of the patterns. So at this point, I'm guessing you're having one of two reactions. Either you're thinking 'yay, it's about time, I loved them in the first Curls and have been wondering where the heck they were for Curls 2' (in which case, if you already have Curls 2 in your rav library, head over there right [...]
One more time…
Yeah, so the last facecloth turned out handy enough that this sort of happened. I promise I'm more surprised than you are. And yet, here we are... Now, if one of you could keep me from ending up with a dozen of these, that would be great.
So many swatches
You're probably getting sick of seeing these, but they're really all I'm knitting these days, so you'll just have to make do. I promise I'll get something else on the needles as soon as a few more of these are safely off in the hands of knitters! But for now, it's all Curls 3 swatches all the time. At least they're pretty though, right? Because really, there's nothing at all wrong with that! It's one of Indigo Dragonfly’s Tornadoz sets on Chameleon Sock in the color Cahoots. And, just for the record, this is another example of 'see how much [...]
More incoming…
So at some point here I should probably start talking in detail about Silk Road Socks and how it will be out next month and how it's full of lovely things and how I very much hope you will like it as much as I do. But for right now, I'm just going to show you one of the sample socks I helped sort out (sometimes I put sample knitters in touch with yarn makers to get samples made for shows...which means I get to pet some truly lovely socks). That's one of the patterns in the book (I'll tell [...]
Incoming
So, I know you though my mailbox was already just about the happiest place it could be (what with all the delightful Curls 3 yarn coming in). But no...no it gets better. The actual pieces themselves have started coming in too! Take a look at this. That's the Cheshire Cat base from Wonderland Yarns / Frabjous Fibers. The gray bits are Goat’s Beard, and the colorful bits are the Yellow to Fuchsia color morph. And up there is what it looks like before you block it... And that's what it looks like after. See why I'm always (always always always) [...]
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