We did it again…another after-hours creativity session at the shop after closing on a Sunday evening. This time it’s all about blending color and texture with an end result in mind. It’s a little bit related to last week’s jumping off point yet a little different.
Matt’s the one swatching this time, just to [...]
I’ve got a major post cookin’, complete with 21 photos. It’s a little bit of a progress report, worked together with a photo essay on inspiration and how we get to where we’re going with a project, along with some swatch shots for a second project, and more inspiration for yet another project. [...]
I have a mailing address for you, but no phone or e-mail. So here goes specs on MY version of the knitted ruana.
Pattern: Oat Couture’s Knit Ruana (GU420)
Size/Options: One size, but three gauge options (worsted at 18 sts/4 inches; bulky at 12 sts/4 inches; superbulky at 8 sts/4 inches)
My version: Blue Heron [...]
said in my best Ahnold…….a la “Kindergarten Cop”.
It’s a breastplate, a la Grace Jones….if you’re not old enough to remember her from her music career in the late 1970s and into the 1980s (”Slave To The Rhythm”, “My Jamaican Guy”, “Nipple to the Bottle” and more), you may remember her from her role as Helen [...]
Yarn comes in, yarn goes out (of the shop), and some yarn ends up on my needles, for personal stuff, for gifts, and shop models. There’s a great pattern in the current issue of KNITTER’S magazine for a felted handbag that I thought was really cute
so I thought I would make it. We [...]