Bedizen
Bedizen is up! These are shamelessly frilly, fluffy, girly socks -- because sometimes that's exactly what you need. It's hopeless to fight it. The stitch pattern is unapologetically lacy and swirly. It looks complicated, but it is actually surprisingly simple. The pattern repeat is only 4 rows high, and it is very easy to memorize. The yarn is a delicious 50-50 merino alpaca blend by Dicentra Designs. The alpaca adds the perfect touch of luxury. If you're going to make a confection like these, you really should use a marvelous yarn, shouldn't you? And at least one lucky reader can. [...]
Shameless Solicitation
...the kind with yarn though, not the kind with criminal charges and embarrassing social diseases. So, I'm planning out my knitting for the upcoming year. Yes I realize there's a bit of a disconnect here. Half a year ago I was agonizing over whether it was ok to charge for patterns. Now I'm making a knitting schedule. It feels rather odd, but odd in a fundamentally awesome way, so I'm sticking with it. I've got lots of exciting collaborative projects coming up in the next year, but it looks like I still have a few spots left. So this is [...]
Call for Testers
The newest sock is ready to go to testers. I know some people have been upset to miss testing opportunities in the past, so I thought I'd mention it here too just to give everyone a shot. If you'd like to try for a chance to test these, head over to this Ravelry thread, and volunteer! I'm picking testers tomorrow afternoon, and plan to release these socks at the end of this month. I'll be back in a few days to tell you more about the socks (and about the yummy yarn I used for them), but I wanted to [...]
Brrrr
Now that it's officially November, I've succumbed to temptation and turned on the heat. Woolly socks are marvelous things, but they can do only so much once the lows dip into the 30s. However, the cold weather does provide lovely atmospheric backdrops for photos. Or at least that's the excuse reason I'm using for not having raked. Laziness has nothing to do with it. The testers have worked their magic, and the pattern for these should be up early next week. Once these are out, I may be a bit light on the knitting for the next few weeks, as [...]
Felled by the Flu
I have been felled by the flu. I have spent the last two days in bed taking strenuous naps and accomplishing precisely nothing useful. Today I felt human enough to stand up but still far from functional. I tried to read (I'm a grad student, reading is my day job) but retained absolutely no information from what I read. I tried to knit but, horror of horrors, knitting was too hard. My next thought was cleaning (when I'm sick I always get twitchy and want to clean things) but walking around leaves me wheezy and sweaty right now, so that's [...]
Winner!
And the winner is...Steph, with comment 52! I'll be emailing you later today to arrange to send you your goodies. Thanks to everyone who entered, and thanks for all the nice comments about the socks. I'll be placing an order for more of the Three Irish Girls yarn some time next week, and it's great to know what colors you all prefer. The socks with Dicentra's yarn are making their way through the testing process and should be out in early November. I've got another pair written up and about to go out for testing, and a third pair on [...]
Calcareous
Calcareous is live, click here if you'd like to make yourself a pair, or to find out what I meant by yesterday's crack about my misspent youth. I also have the distinct pleasure of announcing that Sharon at Three Irish Girls has graciously agreed to donate a skein of the gorgeous Adorn Sock yarn I used to make these socks to one lucky reader! Now lately, I've had the marvelous experience of being contacted by several talented yarn dyers asking me to design patterns for them. This has been (and continues to be) great fun, but that's not what happened [...]
Criminal Underworld
My newest pattern, and a brief account of my youthful descent into the criminal underworld, will be appearing tomorrow or the next day. In the meantime, I can show you a picture of the finished socks, and tell you that their name is Calcareous. The socks I showed you last time are off to the testers and should be coming out in a few weeks. On an administrative note, the third and final part of Crenellation has been posted over on Ravelry. All three parts of the pattern will remain freely available until at least the end of November. After [...]
Almost Sunny
You'll note I said almost. It's been raining every day, and we still haven't had a day that would qualify as actually sunny. Despite these meteorological impediments, I still managed to get outside, sock and camera in hand, and get a picture of the newest socks. In addition to being cloudy and rainy, it is also perilously close to cold. We haven't turned on the heat yet, and it was 48 degrees in the house this morning. I feel I deserve some sort of medal for hiking up my pants outside to get the shot. Ah the perils faced by [...]
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