Customizing patterns
One of my favorite things about knitting, or really any crafty thing, is you can create what you want and don’t need to follow the instructions 100% but use them as a jumping off point. And I love to see … Continue reading
Tag Archives: pattern
Rosarian
After a cold winter, everybody is anxious for warmer weather. Here’s an airy sweater to kick off warm weather knitting! From the Spring+Summer 2014 Knitty issue, Rosarian is knit in Skacel’s fingering weight HiKoo CoBaShi, a cotton, bamboo, silk and elastic … Continue reading
New Design & Book Giveaway
Twisted Lines Boot Toppers is my latest design released and published in the Under 100 Knit Collection book and as an individual pattern download on the Knit Picks website. The toppers are designed in two sizes to give you either … Continue reading
Something for Handspun
I am not a very dedicated spinner, but do have a handful of finished skeins of handspun yarn sitting around that I didn’t know what to do with. Since most everything I’ve spun has been no more than 4oz of … Continue reading
ISO Knitter(s)
I mentioned a while ago that I was starting a new shawl design and haven’t had much to report on it mostly because I’ve not knit on it’s prototype lately. Mostly because I started a new job about a month … Continue reading
Pattern Redux
After causing many knitters confusion on the Thao Shawl setup chart, I’ve re-formatted it. The new and improved copy can be downloaded directly from the Happy Knits blog post on the Thao Shawl HERE.
Under Wraps
Last summer I came up with an idea for a garment that would be part wrap part cardigan. Life came up and I ended up side-tracked from it for a few months, then part way thru November decided to get … Continue reading
Start of a Happy Shawl
This weekend I am starting on a new shawl design, that will be a free pattern offered thru Happy Knits’ in the next couple weeks. As you can see in the photo, it starts at the top with a garter … Continue reading
Bay Weekend
This weekend Jessa and I went down to Santa Clara, CA for Stitches West. We found tons of great yarn to bring back to Portland and try out. Met some fantastic friends from Ravelry. We drove our enormous rental car, which we … Continue reading
Heidi
The Heidi Mountain Scarf was designed to be used with slowly color changing yarns like Knit Picks’ new Chroma or Crystal Palace’s Mochi+. It is knit on the bias with every few rows of stockinette interrupted with a row of dropped yarn overs … Continue reading