During the past seven years of turmoil and change, I haven’t had much of a chance to design. I’ve been looking forward to the luxury of putting out some of my own patterns at my own pace. No deadlines, using the yarn I want to use, having a chance to noodle around if things don’t come out as I envisioned.…
Tag: patterns
Adventures in overdyeing
One thing that’s hard to get used to in this industry is how far in advance we work. You finish something you’re excited about, you send it off, and months, maybe even a year, later it shows up in a book or magazine somewhere. Last year, I had the good fortune to work on an article along with an accompanying…
Knitting with my own yarn
It sounds strange, but I don’t often knit with Black Bunny Fibers yarns. I’ve knit myself a few pairs of socks, and a hat or two, but between using sample knitters and being hired to knit in other people’s yarns, the vast majority of what I work on is not BBF-dyed. I’m hoping that will change. I’ve cast on some…
No-Bull Book Review: Green Gables Knits, by Joanna Johnson
Although I was a voracious reader as a child, and thought I’d read just about every children’s classic book that our library had, I never stumbled across Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This shocks me, as the charming story of orphan Anne Shirley, who is sent to live with an older couple on Prince Edward Island, is…
I’ve got talented friends!
It’s inspiring to know so many talented people, and they are very kind about sharing their projects with me. I just can’t seem to turn out the reviews fast enough (although you can read more of my book reviews in the trade magazine Yarn Market News now) but I also genuinely feel bad about not mentioning the great projects that my…