Tag: design
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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 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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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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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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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…