Knit Along Patterns

The official thread for the February knit along is up on Ravelry.  The individual patterns for these two socks are also now available on Ravelry, in case you prefer to get the patterns one by one.  Some time between now and the start of February, Shannon and I will come up with official rules and post them in the group.  For now, the general idea is: cast on after it gets to be February, finish a pair by the end of March, be entered to win prizes.  Use whatever yarn you like, use whatever color you like, make whichever sock [...]

January 25, 2011|

Here We Go Again

The hat thing seems to have stuck.  Shortly after finishing my friend's hat, The Boy cut off all his hair.  A day or two later he mentioned that his head was cold and that he could maybe just possibly see the wisdom of a hat.  Within minutes yarn was located (we'd picked it out a long time ago when he was thinking of knitting his own hat), balls were wound, and the hat was begun. That winding part actually proved unexpectedly tricky.  This is Nichole by Schaefer Yarn and Hand Paint Sock by Misti Alpaca.  I don't have a lot [...]

November 21, 2010|

Book Yarn, Part I

For the last few days my mailbox has been overflowing with a steady stream of some of my favorite yarns.  You see, a week or two ago, I gathered up my courage and sent emails off to the folks who make my favorite yarns.  I told them I'm working on a book, that I love what they do, and that I was hoping to use their work in my book.  Madam Publisher was kind enough to send emails to back me up (ya know, just to prove I'm not just soliciting yarn with no intention of turning out a book).  [...]

June 1, 2010|

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 [...]

September 15, 2009|

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 [...]

September 10, 2009|

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 [...]

September 9, 2009|

Verdant

The first Bines sock is done.  The second was started, suffered a small mishap, and is now in time out for a few days while I work on something else.  I finished the first draft of the Bines pattern and have sent it out to a cadre of genius test knitters who are hard at work on it as I type.  I hope to have the pattern out in about a month.  In the mean time, I've got to finish the other sock, take better pictures, and put in the corrections I'm sure my testers will have for me.  Perhaps [...]

August 21, 2009|

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!

June 20, 2009|

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 [...]

June 12, 2009|
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