I have approximately ONE sale you can count on each year, and it's time! It's my birthday, but I have a present for all of you


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Let me be honest: I'm not showing you even close to half of what's going on here. I'm in a push to get the knitting all wrapped up for this book. The fact that I can squeeze any baby knitting in at all is kinda amazing. So let me talk for a moment about something I've done a lot of over the last year: yarn support requests. Hopefully this'll be ( Read more... )

My newest pattern became available last friday. Iseult's Dress is included in the book What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit? (favorite and queue on Ravelry, as always)


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Here's a pretty little tease of something in progress:


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I've been steadily working through the winter book designs*. In fact, the designs have been done for awhile, but it's tricky to get nice photo shoots in the winter time. The light available is so short, and often so cloudy. Snow is pretty, but you don't really want to be shooting in a blinding snowstorm, I mean I had to photoshop flakes OUT of the ( Read more... )

These are my Doric mitts - these basic little mitts have been in the planning stages just about forever. The concept came to me when I was swatching with some really lovely, multicolored malabrigo. I wanted to make mitts (I always want to make mitts) but the multicolored yarn was not cooperating with any stitch patterns.


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Yesterday I released my new mittens pattern, meet Pinales:


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I managed THREE photo shoots this weekend! By far the worst was on Sunday morning. Conveniently I was playing model and photographer so I didn't destroy any friendships on this one.


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We're getting so close!! Close to what, you ask? Close to the big release for What (else) Would Madame DeFarge Knit!! The book is already available for pre-orders and it will be going to print soon ( Read more... )

I had a conversation with my tech editor yesterday that went something like this ( Read more... )