More and yet More
As promised, the rest of the news. First, I'm thrilled to announce I'll be designing a sock for another yarn/pattern club. This one is a little different. There is a theme - Wicked Women - and it's a joint effort. It's a three installment club with an exclusive yarn and a specially designed pattern shipping out every other month from September to January. Mine will be the January sock. All the details are over at the Yarnarina's page. Go sign up before the spaces run out! Next, the questions I asked earlier and their answers. It was great to read [...]
Lots of Business, Very Little Knitting
Pardon the uncharacteristic quiet. My non-knitting life has been intruding to an entirely unjustified degree on my knitting. I'm in the final week of a 6 month project and busy writing my little graduate student heart out. By the time I've met my writing quota for the day my arms ache too much to knit. This does little to help my overall mental well being. However, this lack of actual does not mean that there is no knitting news. I've got a few interesting collaborations coming up over the next year. Some have been confirmed, and some are still being [...]
Q and A
So I've been just thrilled by the response I've gotten to the patterns I've made available for sale. Seriously, thrilled. The Boy can attest to the rather ridiculous happy dance and squee of glee that accompanies most checks of my sales and website statistics. More people have bought my patterns than I ever thought possible, and I appreciate each and every one of those purchases. So far, I've been successful enough to more than pay for my classes at Sock Summit. With a bit of luck (and the release of a few more patterns) I might just make enough to [...]
All Downhill from Here
The first of the Propitiate socks is done and the second cast on. The first draft of the patten is written, and I'll likely have it out to testers next weekend (and hopefully available about two weeks after that). This pattern is going to include instructions for the sock as it's shown here (with the slanting rib) and for a second version with straight ribs. These are meant to be for The Boy, but his feet were unavailable for a photo soot, so you get mine instead. Pardon any bagginess...they fit his feet much better than they do mine.
Embonpoint Done
The next step on the path to Violently Domestic's world domination has been taken. The pattern for Embonpoint is finished, tested, and available for sale! These socks are intended to be worked on slightly thicker yarn (they were designed specifically for Schaefer Yarn Company's marvelous new yarn Nichole yarn) and so knit up quickly. The pattern includes three different ways to do the cuff, just in case you feel like making a modified version. The gusset is a little different than what you find on most top-down socks, but I promise it's not hard. Enjoy!
Loot!
Alas, poorly photographed loot, but loot none the less. So yesterday I hauled my somnolent form out of bed at 4 in the morning and somehow managed to make my way to Columbus for Knitter's Connection. I took a class on reading Japanese patterns. The class was well done and has cemented my determination to hunt down some Japanese stitch dictionaries (any recommendations?). Alas there were no such books available at the market, but I did get a consolation prize of sorts - a satchel of loot. The convention bag included 7 different yarns, 2 magazines, a pattern, a book, [...]
Victory Dance
We did it! Thank you all for your votes. You pushed me into the lead. For those of you who want to join the knit along, the Sock that Rock group is here. Knitting starts on the first of July and ends on thirtieth of September. As promised, I'm going to do a sale to celebrate. From now until midnight (eastern time) Friday June 19, buy any one pattern and get any other pattern for free. Alas, there isn't an easy way to automate the process, so we'll have to do it manually. Here's how it will work: Buy a [...]
We’re Off to the Races
The voting on the Socks That Rock knit along is neck and neck, and closes on Monday. If you think you'd like to knit Dippers as part of a knit along, I'd love to have your vote. You can vote by going here (Ravelry link) and clicking the love button next to the entry for Dippers (they are the last ones down on the page). If I win, I am planning to do a 'buy one, get one free' offer for a few days to say thanks. Fingers crossed!
Who’s Next?
Embonpoint is being tested, and the pattern should be out next week. I'm mailing the socks off to Schaefer this morning and will do my best to demonstrate the firmness of character and stoic resolve for which I am known (in other words, I shall try not to weep in the post office as I send them away). In the meantime, another ball of yarn sort of slipped and fell and found itself impaled on my needles in the shape of a sock. No idea how that happened. This one is for The Boy, and is called Propitiate. There is [...]
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