Soup is one of my favorite I-don’t-know-what-to-make-for-dinner makes. I use a general formula to make most of my soups (and I will admit that I am a semi-intuitive cook, and for soup especially, I don’t really use measuring cups or spoons. This is a formula, an outline, more than anything). You can make this soup into any theme/flavor profile you’d …
Let’s Talk Personal Curriculum…
Lisa, idea-haver-extraordinairre, shared something amazing she saw on TikTok, and I have been working on mine ever since: it’s a Personal Curriculum, self-built, self-directed, and self-focused, with the sole purpose of advancing one’s own personal knowledge. When she shared the idea with Lorajean and me, our immediate thought was, HELL YES, THIS IS EVERYTHING! I’ve started one component of mine …
Mango Rice Bowl recipe
This is seriously such a fantastic and fairly quick meal that my family absolutely adores! Ingredients: 1-2 blocks of baked tofu (I love the method found here, with my only changes to press then tear the tofu into chunks instead of slicing it) jasmine or brown rice, cooked (my family LOVES rice, so I usually make 2 cups dry in …
Looking for ShannaJean Patterns?
In December 2022, the ShannaJean website was the victim of a catastrophic malware attack, and we fought it valiantly, but ultimately realized that the site had to be deleted (yikes and ouch). SO! If you purchased a ShannaJean kit from your LYS in 2022 or 2021, please email us at hello@knittedwit.com, letting us know what kit you purchased, and we’ll …
Adventurelands for everyone!
I am obsessed with the Adventureland Quilt pattern. There are so many reasons for this obsession, but the biggest one is that it hits my favorite crafty buttons: Uses fantastic supplies (read: Jelly Rolls! They are such a fun precut, and are used to such fantastic effect on this quilt); Easy to make (there’s not a lot of fussiness to …
Socks & Hats on Vacay 2022
Even though some of us are still contending with very non–summer weather (snow! hail! cold!), we are mere weeks away from our favorite time of the year: Socks & Hats on Vacay time! We have oodles of fun things planned for this summer, but one thing I’m doing differently is I’m not releasing a new pattern collection. Designing has become …
Make the most of your yarn!
I’m getting real excited about this Spring KAL (and that’s something, because knitting has definitely been taking a back seat for all of the other crafts I’ve been obsessed with these last few months), and I’ve been working on adding more information to the Spell Shawl pattern (in fact, I just published the update a few minutes ago!) The 2022 …
Spring KAL Spell Shawl options
I have been in deep deep love with the Spell Shawl pattern since I first released it in 2016. I have lost track of how many I’ve made, and have done so many different variations, I can hardly remember them all. The first many versions of the pattern were all made following what is now the Original version in the …
ShannaJean Spring KAL!
Let’s knit together this Spring, y’all! Lorajean and crew just rearranged the retail part of the Studio and realized that the walls were chock-full of gorgeous skeins of Fingering, when Claire walked by and asked about a Spring KAL. It felt like a lightbulb moment, people – let’s celebrate Spring and color and fun and friends by knitting together through …
Ode to the Parasol Dress
I am eight Parasol dresses in right now, and there is no sign of my stopping. It (along with the Shirt No. 1 hackadress that I’ve made 3 times) is the pattern that re-kick-started my sewjo, and I’m not mad about it. I love this pattern, so much so that I’m running a ShannaJean Summer Camp workshop on it in …
Socks (and Hats) on Vacay/Staycay 2021
As I sit at my dining room table, looking outside at the lovely spring day, I am struck at how strange it is that we have been knee-deep in a global pandemic for over a year. This will be our second pandemic Summertime Sock Knitting Extravaganza, and we are ready for it! Every summer, from May through August, Knitted Wit …
ShannaJean Spring KAL
Join the ShannaJean crew on a journey through a very colorful Spring as we host a ShannaJean Spring KAL! The plan is to knit as many of my mini-centric patterns in a full skein of Knitted Wit Fingering plus a Sixlet of mini Gumballs from Vernal Equinox through Summer Solstice. The deets The KAL uses Knitted Wit yarn; we sold …