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 [...]
Winner!
The winner of the lovely Shalimar Yarns Zoe Sock is...Kerri at number 14! Thanks so much to everyone who entered. I'm officially sold on these giveaways and will do my best to offer them when I release patterns in the future. Thanks to everyone who entered. Come back Thursday morning for a link to the first part of the pattern for a mystery knit along on Ravelry!
Breaking News
It is, for the first time this fall, officially cold enough that I reached for a pair of thick fuzzy handknit socks to keep my feet warm. I grabbed Slant, and I'm pleased to report they are working quite well. My feet are definitely warmer and there is now no need to do anything drastic like closing the windows. On the business front, the winner of the giveaway will be announced tomorrow, and a new pattern will be released on Thursday.
Results!
Wow, you guys like yarn! The site has been up for about six months and I had almost as many comments on the yarn giveaway post as on all the others put together. I won't keep you in suspense, the results, as generated by the random number generator on random.org is Ellen at number 31. I will send you an email today to get your address and will have the package in the mail tomorrow or the next day. This has been fun, I'll have to see if I can do more of these yarn giveaways in the future. The [...]
Yarn Giveaway!
Bines is live! To celebrate I'm having a giveaway. The Schaefer Yarn Company has graciously donated a skein of their lovely Heather yarn in Dian Fossey (that's the yarn I knit them in, just to be clear), and I'm giving away a copy of the pattern (or a copy of a different pattern if that's what the winner would prefer). If you'd like a chance to win the yarn and pattern, just leave a comment on this post. I will leave comments open till Monday evening. On Tuesday I'll randomly pick one person from the comments and contact them to [...]
Upcoming Goodness
The pattern for Bines is finished, and I will be releasing it tomorrow. Bines was knit with one of the yarns that Schaefer gave me in return for a pattern I designed for them. When they saw Bines, they liked them, so this pattern will be getting added to their library as well. To celebrate the pattern release I'm having a little give away. The folks at Schaefer have graciously offered to provide a skein of their Heather yarn in the color Dian Fossey (the same color and yarn I used to make the original socks) to one of my [...]
Yarn, Part the First
Sock Summit was pretty much made of awesome on all levels. I can't possibly do it justice and so won't try to describe it. I would blather. It would be unseemly. Instead, I'm going to talk about one tiny aspect of the awesome. As I was getting ready to go to Sock Summit, a few of the vendors working there contacted me to ask about creating patterns for them with their yarn. I was flattered. There may have been a bit of undignified squeeing and perhaps a few goofy grins. I'll never tell. I'm still awfully new at this, and [...]
Testing, Testing, One Two Three
I think the time has come to explain a bit about the testing process and how I approach it. I'm doing this in part because I'm still new at this and would love to find out more about how more experienced designers do it and in part because I have gotten a few messages that seem to indicate that there are some hurt feelings when I don't pick someone to test for me. I find testers in a few places. Some of my testers are people who have knit my other patterns and told me they particularly enjoyed them. Some [...]
Me? Seriously? Me?
In one of those truly mind bending moments, I find myself in the running to be one of the designers of the month on the 2009-2010 Sock Knitters Anonymous schedule. In case you're not on Ravelry (and really, why aren't you? There isn't even a waiting list anymore! Go sign up, I'll wait.) I'll explain. Sock Knitters Anonymous is the biggest sock knitting group on Ravelry with more than 7,500 members. Each month has a featured technique and a featured designer. Every month, the members knit a pair of socks that is the work of the featured designer or that [...]
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