Guys! It’s winter twist collective time, and Uji is in it. You’ll understand my great pride at having my design included when you see what a beautiful bunch of patterns Twist has put together for this issue. Instead of writing about the design, I’m going to tell you about the yarn in this post. It’s [...]
It took a few months to get over the wonderful shock of having my first design for Twist Collective published. At Twist’s invitation, I’ve put together a bit of information on Eira‘s design inspiration and features. I woke up one morning, a week before the Twist Winter 2011 submission deadline, thinking I had to just [...]
There was a clothing store where I grew up called The Bum Wrap – it forever (mis)formed my understanding of the phrase ‘bum rap’. Anina and I have a mutual distrust of knitted skirts. It’s an unforgiving look, wrapping a big round bum (if that’s what you happen to have, like me) in stretchy fabric. [...]
I’m in twist collective! Even though it’s been in the works for months, I’m actually mostly speechless and have been staring at my monitor for going on 20 minutes, trying to figure out what to write. I mean, what can you say when you want to design knitwear and your pattern is picked up by [...]
So now we can finally catch up on stuff that it was killing me not to blog about on Anniesue. Not much to talk about on a knitting blog when you can’t talk about your knitting, right? But I knew the Caribou Knits website would be skinny on content at first, so I wanted everything [...]
You know I love a good cardigan, right? Well, I’m really excited about this one. I wanted to design a solid cardigan with a shawl collar and a big cable up the back. It would be cozy, not too fitted, medium length, and knit out of dk-weight yarn. A quick search on Ravelry found almost [...]
I’ve been following some knitting on Ravelry that both amuses and amazes me. You know tiny owl knits? I love her designs, especially the beekeeper’s quilt. Every time I see it I wish I’d had the idea first. It’s about a zillion little hexagon-shapes in different colours and patterns, stuffed and sewed together to make a blanket. [...]
I completed some knitting for a deadline recently, and had the usual shock you get from coming to a full stop. I tried to take a break. And I did, a bit: barbecuing anything that wouldn’t fall through the grill, taking photos with my birthday Diana Mini, and getting outside. But I couldn’t just sit around not [...]