Blocking is magic!

So as knitters and designers in the yarn world we all know that blocking is the best thing that can happen to an already amazing piece of knit or crocheted goodness. Blocking smooths out stitches, evens up edges, and can open up lace from a fuzzy lump into something...

The Robie Tank

Sometimes you get a call for submissions from a knitting magazine and you actually have just the perfect thing to send in. The Robie Tank was one of those instances. So I swatched it up, and then was sent some perfect yarn – Solemate from Lorna’s Laces....

Professional Organizations

There aren’t a ton of organizations available for knit and crochet designers. A few years back, some of our fellow designers had a group called the Association of Knitwear Designers – AKD for short. I recall that right about the time that I was interested in joining...

Evanthe

Evanthe is now available! This past September I taught a short-row crescent class down at Sheep Thrills in Lauderhill, Florida and this was the result – the Evanthe shawlette. Evanthe is worked up in one skein of The Fiber Seed Sprout – a fingering weight...

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