Tag: crafting
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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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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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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…
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What A Week!
“Jam packed with emotion, this was a week of endings, beginnings, celebrations and remembrance.”
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“There Are No Deadlines”
The past few weeks have been a long stretch of life’s complications and stress leaving little room for knitting or writing. I finished a new design three weeks ago, but found little time to write up the pattern. Hours of Zoom meetings at the job that pays the bills, left me less than eager to…
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Support, Encouragement & Love
Last week was a great week. I accomplished a long held goal. I’m no longer an aspiring knitting pattern designer, I AM a knitting pattern designer. I published my very first knitting pattern on Ravelry this past Wednesday. You can find it here. More importantly, I was reminded of how supportive and uplifting most people can be. We often…
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Road Trip
Yesterday was Local Yarn Shop Day and I hope, if you’re a crafter, you visited your LYS and gave them some love and support! This past year has been so hard on small businesses. I had plans yesterday so was unable to stop into my LYS, Knits and Pieces, but I’ll be popping in later today to…
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What The Heck is Tech Editing?
It has been a busy week since posting about about my first venture into designing. Thank you for all the love and support! Since last week, I wrote up the pattern using Stitchmastery and Microsoft Word. I’m a self-taught Word user and Stitchmastery, a program for designing knitting charts and instructions, is completely new to me. There was…