Indie Designers Gift-A-Long on Ravelry!

Starting November 1 GMT (which is 8pm on October 31 EDT) dozens of independent designers on Ravelry will be having a joint 25% off sale which goes through November 15 GMT (ending at 7pm EST).

You can find which designers are participating here. Some designers have selected specific patterns for the sale. All of my currently available patterns will be 25% off.

Once you've gotten your discounted pattern(s), head over to the GAL forum to join in the various knit-a-longs where there will be oodles of prizes! They run through December 31.

Happy holiday knitting!

Shawls, shawls, shawls!

In August I started my Thunderstruck Mystery KAL but couldn't show a photo - here is the finished shawl at last!

In September, the secret pattern for Club Awesome was released featuring Dragonfly Fibers Pixie. It is still exclusive to the club but will become available to everyone in March 2014.

Finally, for October I've released Edge, and I can show it to you Right Away, LOL!

I know I know - garter stitch all over the place! But I have two more in the works for this year and neither one is in garter! Both were actually inspired by all the swatching I did for Pebble last spring. I had a panicky moment when I couldn't find that looooong swatch I did -

but I did find it and also the directions for the stitch pattern that I made up and want to use for one of those shawls. There are a few sweaters in the pipeline ahead of them, but I'm hoping to get them released before the end of the year. (Lots of downtime waiting for sweater test knits to be completed!)

Yay! Fall is here!!

I love this time of year so much! I guess it's a holdover from school days, but it always feel like a time of new beginnings for me. After the heat and laziness of summer, I am ready to Do All the Things! Clean my house, bake a pie, dig up things to take to Goodwill, start a good book, knit some sweaters!  To celebrate my favorite season, I'm having a sweater sale - for one week, starting today, all of my sweater and vest patterns on Ravelry will be 25% off using the coupon code SWEATERWEATHER.

You can see all my sweater designs here.

I also released a new cowl pattern recently. Tuck is on sale for 40% off through September 27.

(Unfortunately you can't take advantage of both sales at once - you will have to go through the check out twice if you want both Tuck on sale and a sweater or vest pattern with the coupon. Sorry for the inconvenience.)

Winter is coming :)

Productive Procrastination

This is my daughter's phrase. I don't really have much to say today, but wanted to share because I thought it describes perfectly what I do sometimes   a lot. Usually when I need to finish up a knit (hello, sleeve island or thousand stitch bind off) and am tired of working on it. Instead of knitting I will check over the pattern, play around with the pattern page draft, make lists of what to knit, what to design, when to release things. Organize my stash. Do 'research' on Ravelry. Cast on for the next thing. Post on my blog :)  All things that need to be done but not necessarily what I should be doing.

Right now I need to knit the second sleeve for this:

But I'm not. I cast on for knit #2 for a new cowl design. I wonder if 3D printers can do sleeves?

Another Mystery Knit-a-Long!

We had so much fun with the Sunstruck MKAL last spring and I promised to have another if I could think of another pattern that would lend itself to being broken down into clues. Funny thing is that it didn't occur to me that this one would work until I was well into it! So, I present -

Can't show you my shawl of course, but here's the yarn I used - Wollmeise Merino DK in 47 Ag and Zarte Knospe. Details on yardage, gauge, etc. is here and the pattern is half price until the first clue goes out on September 4. KAL thread is here - there are prizes!

Has it really been 2 months?!

I've been busy! I released Park Slope in July -

and Everlasting in August -

I currently have one sweater being tested -

and am looking for testers for another -

I'm also working on a shawl that I hope will be my next mystery KAL :)  This project has also spawned a cowl idea that I'm eager to play with.

I can't wait for fall and SWEATER WEATHER!! Watch this space for a little something to celebrate my favorite time of year!

I couldn't help myself

Shortly after designing Sunstruck, I started playing around with a similar idea but in a rectangular stole - a lot of people don't like triangular shawls ("butt pointers" LOL!)  I had hoped to use short rows again to get the nice straight lines but was not able to make them work with the angles I wanted. Using intarsia instead gave me nice straight edges at least :)

 





I am not really much of a blue lover, but madelinetosh may be converting me - I especially love the Ink colorway that I used for the outer border.

Oh, and of course I had to name it 'Moonstruck.'

It's available until the end of June at 40% off.

And the short row idea? I actually have something else sketched out to work on later this summer :)