knits and design
Posted in knitting, shop news, wildflower designs on Sep 6th, 2010
I’ve been steadily working over the past year rephotographing a lot of my patterns, revising and or writing up others and have added a number of them to Patternfish. If you haven’t discovered this wonderful pattern resource, go there now and check it out. I’m guessing you’ll recognize many of your favorite designers listed there. [...]
Posted in classes, knitting, shop news, technique on Aug 3rd, 2010
Mark your calendar for the first weekend in October. Gwen Bortner is coming! I remember when Gwen was here a few years ago, she was very excited about getting started on her new book on entrelac, “Entree to Entrelac”. And now, four years later, she’s embarking on a book signing tour this fall to promote [...]
I get excited just looking at this yarn: “silken straw” from Alchemy Yarns. I know the picture can’t do it justice. Let me just say that it really is silk (100%) and it really does look – but not feel- like straw. Something about the beauty of this fiber stirs me from deep within. I [...]
Posted in art knits, fun stuff, knitting, on the homefront, shop news on Jun 22nd, 2010
My daughter, Hazel, came home from college for a brief stay this summer before returning to move into an apartment in Lawrence. I wrote here earlier that she worked in the shop while I was recently away. What I didn’t write is that she was also hard at work planning and making a fiber sculpture [...]
Posted in knitting, market update, shop news on Jun 20th, 2010
I promise you if you come into the shop and ask me how my trip was, I will give you an earful! My trip was sooooo great! I always look forward to the fall market BUT it’s usually equally as much stressful as fun. Great to see the new yarns, yes, always, BUT there are [...]
Posted in fun stuff, knitting, market update, shop news on Jun 13th, 2010
This is a photo of the card I’ll be bringing home showing the popular colors for fall 2010. Trends are on the flip side: SHEERLY BELOVED- light knits perfect for layering. URBAN DE-GRAY- The perfect polished shade that showed up all over the runways. GILTY PLEASURES- Gold, bronze and burnished metallics rock! ANIMAL INSTINCTS- Wild [...]
Posted in fun stuff, knitting, market update, shop news on Jun 11th, 2010
Education classes run Thursday and Friday before the market opens on Saturday and this year TNNA tried something new called TIPS. TIPS consisted of 6 thirty minute sessions presented by various exhibitors such as yarn companies, publishers, designers, etc. I thought I’d share with you some of the sessions I attended. My first session was [...]
Need some last minute Mother’s Day ideas? Here are a few suggestions from Wildflower: serendipity needles- these are the fun needles with polymer tops; flowers, fruits, sheep, etc. baabs with or without cable needles and repair hooks- from Lantern Moon, baabs is the sheep in the lower left corner, holding the scissors and cable needle. [...]
These are the last of the show highlights. All of these designs are mine and are either available here at the shop or from various publications.
I’m not doing so well with the positioning of these pictures but I’ll have another try; must be a little trick I haven’t learned yet.
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