Tag: crafts
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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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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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Technique Tuesday
Currently, I’m working on a new baby blanket design which uses a provisional crochet cast on. I used a provisional crochet chain cast on for my design Naptown Naptime, where you create a crochet chain a few chains longer than your cast on stitch count and pick up your stitches by knitting into the back…
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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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The Purple Sweater
One Saturday in early December, I realized I needed a purple sweater. I was looking through my closet, trying to figure out what to wear to the small, family only (due to Covid), funeral for my aunt. Aunt Jane, my mom’s older sister and my godmother had passed away that previous Monday at the age of 87. In…
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The Sweater I Didn’t Plan To Make
It started with the yarn. Back in the summer, I decided to treat myself and become a Magpie Fiber Society member. What’s that you ask? Magpie Fibers is a multi-racial, woman owned and ran yarn dyer located in Frederick, Maryland. If you are a fiber artist and you’ve not yet had the pleasure of working with yarn from…