Wow, 2020 is a busy beginning-of-the-year. Lots of professional travel with Lorajean for Knitted Wit, other events, and classes, so I wanted to share it all here, and hopefully see you at one or more of these upcoming events: FEBRUARY 13-16: Red Alder Fiber Retreat in Tacoma (are you going? We are bringing all of the yarny magic, and we hope to …
It’s Fall, Y’all Sale!
I don't know about you, but it sure does feel like deep knitting season here in Portland. It's rainy and chilly and overcast and brisk and all I personally want to do is snuggle up under a blanket with a cup of hot tea and a wooly knitting project and knit, knit, knit. Which is why I'm having a "It's …
Socks on Vacay 2019 Winners!
I’m sharing all of the amazeballs winners who socked it up with us this summer. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I’m going to shut up.
Socks on Vacay 2019 update
OMG, my sock knitting has been really lacking this summer. I was doing so well in late June/early July, until the bad summer things happened, and my knitting desire flew the coop for a while. It’s back, though, and we have another week or so to finish up, so I’m really hoping to get something else done… In the meantime, …
When you’re a Knitter who doesn’t want to knit…
For much of the summer, I’ve been experiencing something I rarely experience: a knitting slump. I am just plain not really knitting, and it’s so weird. I’ve had my reasons (our sweet little Frida was hit by a car and killed, and then I was beat down with an intense and weeks-long bout with vertigo), but it’s still unsettling to …
A case for repetition…
There are some makers who only want to make something once. They make something, they move on. I totally respect that, but that is not me, not at all. If there is something I like, I want to make it a bazillion times. I want to become so intimately familiar with it that I don’t have to consult the instructions …
Socks for Busy B’s 4
New sock collection alert! I’m super excited about the latest Socks for Busy B‘s collection (this is NUMBER FOUR!!) The patterns are all fabulous with either tonal semi-solids OR variegated/speckled yarns, and all are pretty gender neutral. There are at least 3 sizes provided for each pattern, and each is seriously more fun to knit than the last. I, for one, …
Socks on Vacay 2019
This is the third year Lorajean and I have hosted Socks on Vacay, and, seriously, it just keeps getting better and better. This year, I once again released a Socks for Busy B’s collection, and, don’t tell the others, but this might just be my favorite one yet. All three patterns are so easy to memorize and do such wonderful …
Holiday Market at Knitted Wit
I am going to be at the Knitted Wit Holiday Market on December 1st from 1-4 with some other fab-tastic vendors, and I’m bringing so.many.samples to sell! Mostly pattern samples and mostly shawls, there are some real gems in my bucket(s) of things to sell. I’m super excited to see some of these pieces get a new home and new …
Gift-a-long 2018
It’s almost time for the GAL, folks, the big make-lots-of-presents-for-loved-ones promotion on Ravelry, and once again, I am taking part. Right now, through 11/30, each designer that’s participating is offering 25% off of a select group of their patterns, and we are all using the same coupon code: giftalong2018. I’m featuring 20 of my favorite quick-to-knit-and-therefore-to-gift patterns, and the link …
Collaboration. Pretty much my favorite thing.
Lorajean and I just spoke at the Puddletown Knitter’s Guild about our fibery friendship and collaboration, AND I just released two different shawls as collaborations with other dyers in this uber-talented community, so I’ve been thinking a lot about collaboration and how important it is to me and to the businesses I’ve had. There are some folks who do their …
We Belong Together, a collaboration
Pat Benatar really speaks to me, folks. Her music is so rocking, so kick-ass, so yeah-get-it-girls’y. My little ladies and I listen to her a lot, and there are some songs that take me back to a specific time in my teenager-hood, that every time I hear them, I am transported. We Belong is one of them, and, as I …