I made a pair of orangey-pink socks for myself and I want to send a great pair like this to my sweet sister. I like this pattern with variegated and solid yarns and it’s easy to memorize
t wait to see her in it. The arm openings were finished with applied i-cord edging but they also had to have ties. The designer’s answer to this is brilliant and it was a fun new technique that I’ve never done before. The pattern of the dress itself was simple enough and well-...
I thought, an easy one. I have three hanks of Cascade 128 in this pretty almost periwinkle blue and I thought I’d make a larger sweater for my granddaughter. BUT when I knit the pattern according to the instructions, I didn’t like the fabric. It was too open. So I frogged back a...
I’ve got an order for two tams from a customer who contacts me every couple of years. I went looking for my pattern yesterday and it’s not available on Ravelry any longer and, of course, I’ve cleaned out all my paper patterns because I had them on Ravelry. I sure hope more desi...
ve knitted and loved her newborn version of this pattern several times. I wanted to make something a bit bigger than newborn because it’s warm right now and she probably won’t need a sweater for a bit. I knitted this up in a new cotton yarn, Botanika, by Cascade Yarns. Botanika ...
(Today I’m starting Dry January.) I want to build in more time for sewing and hope to knit mostly from my stash … we’ll see how that works out. Because I work in a yarn shop, it’s really easy to find new projects to bring home … and I’ve done quite a bit of that in...