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On wellness

I’m sorry to have dropped out suddenly and in the middle of my series on the male gaze, too. Basically, I’ve been sick for a month now, and it’s been really wearing. We went to the Maker Faire in May,

Posted in Hats, In progress, Knitting, Sweaters

Orange you glad

Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2012 is Tangerine Tango, an orangey red or a red orange that screams, “HEY! I’m right HERE!”. It is a coincidence that my new sweater is a similar red orange, but not an inappropriate

Posted in Color, Jewel Lake Pullover, Knitting, Original Pattern, Sweaters

How’s it holding up, part the second

Yesterday I posted about the wear and tear on five sweaters, and today I have five more to talk about. All of the sweaters today have actually held up very well, so hooray for that! No more disasters like my

Posted in Knitting, Sweaters, Yarn

How’s it holding up?

First off, I did an interview with the incredibly gracious Lumia of Worsted Knitt, so if you’d like to read it, head on over and check it out! I’ve been meaning to do this for ages: take out old projects

Posted in Knitting, Sweaters, Yarn

Jewel Lake Pullover

I am a very lucky knitter. Seriously. I have gotten to work with a lot of my favorite yarns and yarn companies in recent times and to that list I now get to add Lorna’s Laces. I bought myself some

Posted in Jewel Lake Pullover, Knitting, Original Pattern, Pattern for sale, Sweaters

Green with evil

Actually, there’s no evil to be found here. It’s just that when I was in high school, my favorite television show was Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, and there’s a character on that show, Zorak, who describes himself as green

Posted in Cardigans, Finished Projects, Knitting, Sweaters

Atalanta

This has been a long time in coming! In 2007, I made this top, Arthemis. At the beginning of 2008, I released a pattern for it. Unfortunately, said pattern was a mess. It was pretty well impossible to follow and

Posted in Arthemis, Atalanta, Original Pattern, Pattern for sale, Sweaters

Wrapping up

There are a number of projects I finished last year that we never got around to photographing in modeled pictures. I think there are some projects that I never got around to photographing, period. I’m trying to remedy that now,

Posted in Finished Projects, Hats, Knitting, Sweaters

Sunniva

The Sunniva pattern is now available! Finally! Sunniva was designed to fill a wardrobe gap and close a gap. I love button down blouses and cardigans as wardrobe staples, but the unfortunate gaping that occurs at times can make them

Posted in Original Pattern, Pattern for sale, Sunniva, Sweaters

More Sunniva

Apologies for a lack of blog posts are quite tiresome, so I’ll skip that for now. We took a few modeled shots of the yellow version of Sunniva yesterday, and here they are! Yellow Sunniva is knit in Malabrigo Sock

Posted in Knitting, Original Pattern, Sunniva, Sweaters