Did you have one? I did. I saved for sooooo long to buy myself a Swatch watch when I was a young teenager. And basically it was a cheap plastic watch that made my wrist sweat. A lot. But I always think of that stupid thing when I think about swatching new designs.
So I'm getting there. I'm nearly half done with the wedding shawlette. I was hoping to have it finished in the next few days, but I've been called for jury duty. Guess what you can't have at jury duty? That's right - knitting. But apparently I can bring my cell phone and my netbook. So ...
I will just let you know - upfront and straightforward like - I have not done much in the way of knitting and knitting design these past two weeks. I finished up a sooper seekrit sample, and I'm writing the pattern for it. But mostly what I've done is health related. I have dieted. I ...
You would think that having been smacked in the face with this on more than one occasion, I would have learned my lesson by now. But nooooo..... apparently I am that rat in the maze. Forever shocking myself by going the wrong way. So let me give you the benefit of my bad judgment. If you ...
I love the way lace knitting - even things with only lace edgings - looks like fuzzy lumps before the blocking. I love blocking. I love how it takes something that looks kind of pretty if you stretch it just so and turns it into something that is beautiful and lovely and perfect. I'm working ...
My son is obsessed with his guitars. Yesterday he spent a good part of the afternoon building a cardboard replica of his Ibanez and now he wants to string it up and see if he can play it. He teaches himself songs, and he practices all the time. So of course when he got to ...
When your children ask for knitted things your heart is touched. Especially as a designer - "Mom, will you design something for me?" But let's think about this logically. If your children are boys that are twelve and eleven - well knitting something for them is sometimes like shoveling the driveway while it is still ...
So I thought I would do something fun for the Christmas season. For December 1st-25th I will be offering a special deal every day - one PicnicKnits pattern will be sold for the bargain price of $2.50. But you have to check the blog to find out which one it is and to get the ...
I'm doing some tinkering with the site - if you're on a reader, you won't know, but if not, please excuse the overabundance of very plain verdana text. Will be pretty again soon!
Well for some reason I got a bug up my butt and decided that NOW is the time for me to really start submitting to more magazines and publications. So today, in between housecleaning and volunteer work, I swatched. And I swatched some more. And I drew sketches, and wrote descriptions. And hopefully come some ...
