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I have a few technique posts in my head, and I’d love to walk you through my design process for Twinflower, but for the moment, let’s just talk about the latest issue of Twist, shall we? I haven’t been so inspired by a group of sweaters in ages. There are so many wonderful designs, with [...]

Fit to flatter is a ten-part series of tutorials on choosing and modifying knitting patterns to flatter your shape. These tutorials will be released every two weeks both as blog posts (free) and as separate, professionally formatted PDF files for printing (nominal charge). Should you desire the PDFs, each installment can be purchased from the [...]

What should I be doing? …writing the next installment of Fit to Flatter (up Sunday night!), so that I can get to putting together my exciting new furniture from Ikea. I’m finally going to have a real craft space and desk. What am I doing instead? Taking pictures of part of my next design. And [...]

Fit to flatter is a ten-part series of tutorials on choosing and modifying knitting patterns to flatter your shape. These tutorials will be released every two weeks both as blog posts (free) and as separate, professionally formatted PDF files for printing (nominal charge). Should you desire the PDFs, each installment can be purchased from the [...]

How excited am I to share this with you? Pretty damn excited. Pattern: Adelina Yarn: Rowan Calmer, in coffee bean and… purple. Time Elapsed: A couple of weeks. Most of this (all but the collar) was done during the knitting olympics this year. Then the collar waited while I designed and knit Hootenanny. *cough* Pattern [...]

While 2008 was nowhere near as difficult a year for our family as 2007, there was plenty of upheaval to go around. We moved from Monterey back to our house in New England, we had a baby, the husband switched jobs to a very intense start-up that failed to get what they thought was secured [...]

Thank you all so much! I’ve knit most of the back of the aran, now, and as many of you said the muted color of the yarn is really balancing out the cables. I think it looks fine, after all. I can’t believe I’m really going to make a pictureless post, but I wanted to [...]

People, I have tons to tell you about for the first time in forever. A few new projects, more on the Tomten, an FO… but something else is more important today. Vote.

May you have all treats and no tricks.

Well, in case you’re wondering, a newborn isn’t the reason I’ve been away. On the contrary, he seems plenty comfortable in there and I may well have to waddle like a manatee through a few more weeks. There are worse things than a healthy-but-tardy baby, and we’ve been dealing with some of them, but I [...]