One this quadrennial day, I release into the wide world the Icewine Mittens pattern!
Icewine Mittens (.pfd)
You can read all about this pattern’s development in this post, and as always my patterns are listed together on my Patterns page.
Winter’s not over yet, so enjoy knitting these cozy colourwork mittens!
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I’m not [...]
Remember the Gatsby Girl?
That great pattern published in IK Fall 2006 by my talented knitter/artist friend Jodi Green?
That sweater I had to reknit the sleeves about 75 times (or so)?
That little feminine number that looked oh-so good when I first tried it on?
Appearances can be deceptive…
That sweater, which upon washing, grew [...]
A sign I just might be a little bit preoccupied with this whole fibre thing:
I was writing an email to my department’s business manager today, and instead of typing “please let me know… ” I wrote “please let me knit…”. Obsessed? Me? Never.
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I think I’ve come [...]
Consider this lace-weight yarn liberated.
Eye of Partridge Shawl, 100% cashmere.
Back view: shoulder shawl.
How I’ll wear it most, with the point front-facing, tucked into my coat.
Love that stitch texture!
This is a dead-simple triangular shawl that takes full advantage of eye-of-partridge stitch, creating a cozy double-thick fabric with subtle, elegant diagonals. Due to the alternating slipped [...]
It’s been one whole year since I cracked post and started posting. This is, contrary to the title, just another knitblog, but I’m loving it still!
So many things have a happened, both in my fibre-crafting and ‘real’ life, over the past year! When I started this, I mostly wanted a place to feel [...]
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Apparently the good people at Canada Post still have to work on Family Day — my Mmm… Hot Cocoa swap package was delivered to my door this morning!
What’s in the box?
A whole host of winter-blues-busting treats!
Meet Harry the Hedgie, who came with a lovely note of introduction.
Some awesome foxie [...]
I’m still trying to come up with a good name for my spindleworks (all the while assuring Dru that no, I’m not letting this spindle-makingthing get out of hand, really!), so I’m keeping my mini-contest open a few days later. (I teach on Sunday, maybe that would be a good day tohave chosen something, y’think?!) [...]
I’ve been making spindles for my own use for a while now, experimenting with many different kinds of materials and construction, finding out what works (and doesn’t) for hand-made — but not lathe-turned — spindles. I’m relatively proud of the things I’ve made.
Lately, I’ve even been selling a few to the Purple [...]
Not much is worse in the blogging world than reading someone’s to-do list, so I’d encourage you to just go read the Yarn Harlot or something today… ’cause I got nothin’ else for you!
To Do
Read on only if you’re actually interesting in me nagging myself. You’ve been warned.
* Make more spindles. [...]
Would I be mad, do you think, to sign up for Sock Madness 2?
It’s a knit-off, a speed race for socks. I don’t even have any much of a sockyarn stash. And I’m not usually the competitive type. But the free patterns, and that push to knit socks, knit them fast and [...]
