Patterns for Adorable and Distinctive Toys
Your one peek until the pattern is published The yarn for the Conavalla Stole has arrived and I've started swatching. Here's Euphonia, my small triceratops model, hanging out with the stockinette stitch swatch I made in a couple of different needle si ...
Here's the "calling card" I put together for my AmiAlong 2019 designer introduction I stand with ravelry. I'm one of the designers participating in AmiAlong 2019 on ravelry. Thirteen designers of both knit and crochet amigurumi have bundled their p ...
Jennifer Small of Jennifer Small Photography did a photo shoot for me with the nine hats from my Hatapalooza! designing spree earlier this year. So now I have photos with models who aren't William Shakesbear and which aren't the selfies that I attempte ...
Lovely new headshot by Moses Farrow. Thanks, Moses Ok, nothing is not exactly accurate. I've spent the last week making swatches in various yarns for the project I talked about last week. Since it's a submission to a third-party for possible inclusion ...
Eye of Partridge stitch. Looks pretty in the doubled tonal, but not the final choice for this design. Designing is as much about what doesn't work as what (eventually) does. Or what works, but doesn't look the way I want it to. Here are a couple of ...
The current iteration of the cable pattern - and a small triceratops I keep making the proposed cable panel for a knitted tote bag more complicated. I've added two more strands to the braid, taking it up to eight, and (therefore) added several more ca ...
Hatapalooza continues! When I get on a roll, I get on a roll. Here are hats 4 - 8 of the 8 hats I've designed in the last 6 weeks or so. I think I'm done (or almost done, I might do one more using the remnants of four or five of the colors before I qu ...
The Moira Hat, obligingly modeled by William Shakesbear. I spent last week knitting up models for three more forthcoming hat patterns: the Cable Triplets hat, the Moira and the Deirdre. As you can see, I am giving my hats Irish names and a slouch prof ...
Shakesbear models the Eileen slouch hat. I need to get an actual human to model my finished hat patterns. In the meantime, here is William Shakesbear wearing the finished slouch hat from last week. Side view showing the zig zag lace pattern I'm ...
William Shakesbear models the slouch hat in progress. This version turned out to be too big for me, too. My latest trial piece for a pattern has retaught me the wisdom of doing your gauge swatch on the exact needles you will be using. That zig-zag lac ...