Patterns are so hard to name. Sometimes I come up with names that are inspired and awesome. So awesome in fact that umpteen million other designers have already used them. Somedays I think it would be better just to number them. Actually I do number them. But I don't think that PK0031 has any oomph ...
I'm kind of in love with some of these new Malabrigo colorways that kind of defy description. First it was the Liquid Ambar in the Malabrigo Twist, and now this: It's Malabrigo Silky Merino in Archangel and it's for a new shawl/shawlette ...
I am now (officially even) a published designer. I've been self publishing for awhile. And I love it. And it's going well for me. But I really want to expand to get into magazines and online publications. And I did!!! Yarn Forward - page 86 baby!
I looked. And now everything in my pattern store is in the Help for Haiti category. Actually I didn't even mean to look. I just saw some ads. With the pictures. Oh my Lord the pictures. So to recap, if you buy anything in my Ravelry Store between now and the end of January, I ...
I'm not looking, but I know it's happening. I can't watch the coverage on Haiti. I can't listen to the stories. I was reduced to a sobbing heap the other day reading a news story about a cop who was killed here locally in a head-on collision. I am that person that is nearly incapacitated ...
I wanted to call these Frippery socks. But I always search for names on Rav before naming stuff, and frippery was used multiple times. So Finery Socks it is. I love these socks. Chris wanted to make some socks out of her most popular colorway, Toe Curling 'O'. Um yes, the O stands for what ...
Katara is a shaped shawl worked side-to-side with the main body worked in garter stitch. The neck shaping allows it to gracefully sit on your shoulders without a pin.
I really have some of the loveliest people in my life. Today I went over to SugarbeeStudios' house so that she could help me take pictures of the shawl. She happens to have a breathtakingly gorgeous daughter who was happy to ...
I think I might be in love with my new camera. Seriously. Like leave my husband kind of love. I need to play with it more, but just now I was messing around and look up there - you can see ...
