Author: Kimberlee Shaffir
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Cozy Knitting Projects: Dock Street and Western Rose Patterns
A belated Happy New Year! I hope your 2025 has gotten off to a great start. Many of my plans for 2025 began in 2024 or even earlier. It takes some time to get a pattern ready for release. Thus, a good portion of 2024 was spent working on my planned first pattern release for…
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Knitting, Baseball, History, Food and, Of Course, Yarn!
It had been a while since my husband and I had visited Boston so our whirlwind trip to watch our beloved Orioles play, was the perfect time to get reacquainted with the delights of the city. Deciding to take Amtrak rather than fly, gave me lots of time for knitting and reading! I took a…
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Knitting Patterns Launch: Quiet Waters Tee and Upcoming Dulaney Socks by Kim Shaffir Designs
Kim Shaffir Designs had a productive summer, launching a website, knitting for her grandchild, and releasing a new pattern, “Quiet Waters Tee.” She recommends the Sweater Design Course by Sister Mountain and teases the upcoming release of the “Dulaney” pattern. Additionally, she shares details about a baby blanket and a future sweater design project.
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Technique Thursday: Knitting on a Perpendicular Edge
For today’s Technique Thursday, I’m going to show you how to add a perpendicular edge to a piece of knitting. Perpendicular edges are frequently used at the bottom of shawls, like my two designs Anchors Aweigh and Joyful Crescent, but they can be used on garments as well. I have a new pattern being released…
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For The Love of Gradients
I love a sunrise or sunset. The way the colors gently blend from one to another. Nature’s own gradient and it’s magical. I think that’s why I like knitting with gradients. Watching the colors slowly change while you knit, is mesmerizing. Apparently, I like gradients a lot because four of my designs use gradients or…
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Beaded Picot Bind-off
My latest shawl pattern is being released on Friday, June 30. It’s called Kiwi and has a picot bind off edge. The instructions include an option for a beaded picot bind off (show in the photo above). The steps for a picot bind off are really quite simple: When you get to the end of…
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Work In Progress…..Thursday?
As most may know, in the crafting world it’s usually called “Work In Progress Wednesday” but as they also say, “better late than never!” There are many works in progress at the moment. Kiwi Shawl has been tech edited and is in the testing phase of things. This shawl started as a gift for my…
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It’s Not About Knitting
**Two warnings: 1. This post will not be the one I had planned to write today and as the title states, it will not be about knitting. 2. This post will contain references to suicide, addiction, and grief. If you struggle with suicidal thoughts, suicidal ideation or addiction or grief due to those types of losses, you may wish to…
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My First Knitathon
A few weekends ago, I participated in the Project Knitwell 2023 Knitathon. Project Knitwell is a lovely organization whose mission is to help people facing challenges by providing knitting instruction and shared community opportunities that promote wellness and resilience. As I’ve mentioned before in a previous blog, knitting became an anchor for me when I was drowning in…
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Technique Tuesday – Slipped & Elongated Stitches
Happy Tuesday! Today I am going to show you the pattern I’m using in my latest design. The design is a baby blanket that is knit in panels using a slipped stitch. The pattern is from Barbara Walker’s Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns and I’ve had my eye on using it for a while. As…