This soup is sooooo good. Like, sooooooo good. Like almost everything I make, this is more a guideline than an actual recipe, but I was asked for this, so here goes! You need: olive or coconut oil garlic turmeric basil oregano bay leaf or two 1 small onion, whichever color you like, chopped a couple of carrots, cut up …
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 …
Super Yum: Cauliflower Bake
This is one of my family’s very favorite meals. It’s so good, in fact, that the first time Hazel had it, she asked if we could have it every day. I made a vegan version for our cousin and she wolfed an entire pan of it down and then started making it for herself. A friend shared the recipe with …
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 …
More pants!
With all of this talking about collaboration, I cannot ignore the obsessive component of my partnership/friendship/collaborative-inspirational-situation with my girl LJ. We both dive into things head-first, and often get super duper obsessed with things. There was the Pyrex-amassment-project of 2014-2015. The can’t-get-enough-pens-planners-and-stationary-supplies-enterprise of 2016-17. 2018 will go down in HerStory as the year of make-up. 2018 is also quickly becoming …
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 …
Making Things
Alright, here’s the story: there’s a new way to make in town, and it’s causing a bit of a stir in the knitting world. It’s called Making Things, and it’s a web app right now, with plans for a native app in the works. I kind of stumbled on it a few months ago, while it was in its beta …
Pants!!!
Well, we are more than 3/4 of the way through the year, and I finally hit one of my beginning-of-year sewing goals: PANTS! On Tuesday, Lorajean and I made some Pants No. 1, in matching-ish fabric, because of course we did. No one who knows either of us, or has seen my forays into sock-obsession will be surprised to know …
KAL’ing this fall…
I love a good KAL. There’s nothing like being held accountable to ensure you actually work on a project. My life is all about knitting/designing on deadline, so it’s really easy for me to set aside a non-design project in lieu of either more designing, or, more frequently, a sock (because you all know how I feel about socks)… But, …
My beloved planner. Or how, through a pile of planners, I finally achieved planner peace.
A few years ago, I embarked on a planner-and-stationery-frenzy with some good friends. The first planner I fell in love with was the Get to Work Book. It’s a gorgeous book, big and beefy and simple and lovely. I used mine for the year, and, although ultimately it was not the planner to provide planner peace for me, what I …
How to: fringe it up!
My latest pattern, That 70s Shawl, is a fringerrific piece of dreamy squishy radness, and as I was adding fringe, I snapped some photos so I can share how I do it with you. (The verbiage below is in the pattern, but the photos are not)… Block your shawl prior to adding fringe. Once it’s blocked and dried, grab some …