There was something about when the pandemic first began that put me in a “make due and mend” mindset. Maybe it was the uncertainty of what was going to happen next. Maybe it was the lack of toilet paper. But… I was suddenly in the mood to finish or at least start working on my abandoned projects again. If you are a longtime reader of this blog, you may recall when I was all fired up about the Beekeeper’s Quilt. I was. I truly was. I had every intention of making 500 million of these hexipuffs and having an epic puffy blanket to show for my efforts. But for whatever reason. I lost steam. I felt ..read more

Baby Sweaters are great for using up yarn stash! They only take 1 or 2 skeins of yarn usually, and I have lots of full skeins with accompanying little scrap balls leftover from previous projects. This little cardigan was just the thing for some gorgeous Becoming Art single ply worsted I had languishing in my stash. I made this for a friend who recently welcomed a sweet baby girl. I hope she loves it. This pattern is called Aida Top Down Cardigan by OGE Knitwear Designs. This designer has some amazing baby sweater patterns! I will be looking here again for more inspiration in the future ..read more

I bet you thought I fell off the face of the earth, didn’t you? In some ways I have, I suppose. Life has taken a few unexpected detours and I have slowed way down in all things involving the knitting world. One thing however will never change for me. I will always find joy in creating things. Meet my recent creation.. the Magnolia cardigan. I finished it early on in the pandemic.. just in time to have nowhere to actually wear it and the California air outside to turn chokingly hot and hazy with wildfire smoke. But in recent months.. this little cardigan has gotten quite a lot of wear… (in my ..read more

Recently I have enjoyed indulging in a sweet little colorwork sweater as a gift for my cousin’s brand new baby boy! I have been seeing so many amazing colorwork sweaters popping up that have been very tempting to knit… but truth be told. I don’t have a lot of experience with stranded knitting and intarsia. There has been the odd project here and there.. but lace and cables has really been more my thing. I have a few larger colorwork projects planned for myself (more on that later) but this tiny cardigan was a nice warm up ..read more

I know I had said that I was going to be knitting up a second Thunderstorm Toque next… but then I saw this hat pattern… and well… I simply fell in love with those tiny textured flower stitches!This is the April Hat designed by Kelbourne Woolens. I wanted to gift a handknit hat to a friend that I will be seeing this month and the cheeriness of the April Hat really matches her personality. The only pattern modification I made was excluding the pom pom. I also did not block the hat on a plate as you would normally do for a beret. I wanted this to be more of a slouchy hat style as I think my frie ..read more

My beautiful Thunderstorm Toque is now complete and I couldn’t love it more! The fun textural changes of the stitches really kept things fun and interesting on the needles. AND THAT COLORWAY. :oAs you can see… I like this color so much I have 3 skeins of it in the Super Silky fingering weight in the same colorway “Nailed It!” for a sweater design. But before I start that.. I have one more Thunderstorm Toque to knit as a gift for a friend. So much knitting.. so little time ..read more

I’ve got a pretty new hat on the needles that I just cannot get enough of. This is the Thunderstorm Toque in Emma’s Yarn Simply Spectacular DK in the “Nailed It” colorway. The texture on this is just purely addicting. I have to go now… I have more knitting to do.Pattern found HERE.Yarn found HERE ..read more

As a vendor at Stitches West this past February I was excited to wear my favorite knitted pieces while working at my booth space. One that I chose was my Twigs and Willows Cardigan from my book Botanical Knits. I have always really really liked this particular sweater and when it was no longer needed in my Botanical Knits trunk show, I quickly claimed it as my favorite! We spent many days together this past fall and winter until…Let me first back up real and tell you a little sad story about when I was actually knitting t ..read more

I am happy to say that I have been working away on this sweater design and it is now…. … off the needles! How beautiful is this yarn combination held together? I love the texture and halo it creates! These are two Julie Asselin yarns.. Nurtured Fine and Anatolia. So lovely. I am now working up the pattern and can’t wait for it’s release and seeing it being made in all sorts of color combinations!In other news. It has been an adjustment with no longer hav ..read more

I don't know what happened... but my knitting mojo came back full force. It just hit me one day when I was least expecting it and now I want to knit all the things. I have two great projects on the needles at the moment.Mindless hat knitting using this gorgeous Storyteller yarn that I picked up during a recent trip to Lake Tahoe. I am making up Hannah Fettig's Simple Hat and it is a great project for this yarn. Simple stockinette really shows off the beautiful colors. I love picking up yarn on vacation to have that physical memory of that experience whenever I knit with or wear the finished it ..read more