There once was a knitwear designer (spoiler alert: it’s ME!!!) who loved a colorway very much. She hoarded the colorway, and made more than one pair of socks in it. She started a shawl in it, a re-working of an older pattern, but wasn’t feeling it, because this colorway was the most special colorway she had met in a very …
Finished Spell Shawl makes me happy
My latest Spell Shawl is the absolute bomb! The way the colors dissolve into each other is so very dreamy, and the yarn is perfect and the size is amazeballs and I am so so happy. I ended up using 5 colors of Knitted Wit’s Merino Shimmer Fingering, and I made it a wee bit larger than the original pattern …
My Spell Shawl thing
I am the kind of knitter who really does like to make the same thing over and over. When it’s a pattern I really enjoy, and when I have yarn that works well with it, or when I see yarn that I would like to acquire and know it will work with one of my go-tos, I’m all in. It’s …
Knit Crate and me!
Have you ever done a subscription box? They exist for pretty much anything and everything you can think of: fandoms, books, tea, coffee, chocolate, wine, bacon, stationary, and, yes, you guessed it, knitting. I’ve been a subscriber on a stationary subscription box, and there’s nothing like cracking that box open and oooh’ing and aaaah’ing over everything that’s inside. That’s why …
Feeding heart and soul with knitting
This is something I posted on Instagram, almost word-for-word, but I need to say it here, too. The news lately has been difficult, and relentless, and I am doing things other than just knitting my way through the pain and the confusion and the stress, but for me, knitting is the highest form of self-care I can do, and socks …
The fellowship of the dress
I talked earlier in the week about how much my crafty wardrobe means to me as a person learning to love and appreciate her body. But the art of the craft does so much for my insides, as well. Being a crafty person feeds so much inside of a person. Not only does one feel something in their soul sing …
On dresses and tattoos
I’m in my early 40s. I have two small kiddos. My body has never gotten back to where it was pre-kiddos, and that used to really bother me. Not in a “I-need-to-diet-and-exercise-around-the-clock” way, but more in a “I-never-feel-cute-or-comfortable-in-my-clothes” way. And then I discovered (via my bud Lorajean from Knitted Wit and our first glorious sewing day) the Dress No. 1 …
Not-so-secret guilty pleasure
I have this thing for the supernatural. The sci-fi. The superhero(ine). Books, TV shows, movies, if there’s one of these components to them, chances are I’m in. Which means that when I’m working on a knitting deadline, and thus have Netflix going almost continually, I’m watching some pretty ridiculous stuff. I just finished the first season of Wynona Earp, and …
Swatching, swatching, swatching
Designing. Sometimes, the pattern just kind of flows out of your brain and into the needles, and everything just kind of works out. And sometimes, you swatch and swatch and nothing comes to you. And sometimes, something is so pleasing, and you fall madly in love, but it’s simply not quite right for the project you’re swatching it for. That …
Cast on party!
Tonight is the cast on party for the Spell Shawl KAL, and I really hope you can make it! We’ll be casting on at 6:30pm PT on Knitted Wit’s Facebook page. Pour yourself a cuppa whatever floats your boat, and join us as we begin our Spell Shawls. It’s a fun and fast project, and even if you haven’t gotten …
Change Makers
Ever since Donald Trump was elected president, life has changed for me. I am no longer content to just be in the way I was content to be before. So many rights have been trampled, so much of what used to be a given in American society has been ripped away, and I, for one, am left feeling very strongly …
Trying to find the time…
I’m really trying to find the time to take part in the Muriel’s Shawl KAL, among other want-to-knits. My design plate seems pretty full right now, and I’m on the part of my design-in-progress where I’m so close to being done that all I want to do is start the next thing. It’s a problem, one that happens to me …