A Knitting Blog Archive
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Please Knit a Swatch
Is there anything as painful for a designer to read than declarations that a knitter didn’t make a swatch and check their gauge? “I always get gauge,” is almost just as cringe-worthy and indicates a fundamental misunderstanding about how a pattern’s gauge is determined. There’s no swatching conspiracy– designers ask knitters to do it because…
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Blaster KAL
We’re so close to my favorite time of year, which means it’s time to get ready for the Fall KAL! The KAL runs from September 15th to November 1st, and this year we’ll be knitting my new-ish cropped cardigan pattern, Blaster. I say “new-ish” because the pattern was originally an exclusive pattern for the Neighborhood…
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Currently on My Needles
Since we started Stranded, I haven’t had as much time to work on designs for Untangling Knots, but I’ve been slowly working on a few in between other projects. This particular one feels really satisfying to knit because it’s a worsted-weight cropped cardigan, so I can see I’m making progress on it, even when I…
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New Pattern Salal in Stranded Magazine
It feels like it’s been forever since I last released a cropped cardigan with seamless set-in sleeves, so I’m really happy to be able to share my new pattern with you. It’s called Salal, and it’s in the Mild Weather 2016 issue of Stranded Magazine that came out yesterday. The construction is my favorite style.…
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My 2016 OAL Outfit
Yesterday was the last day of the Outfit Along, and this is what my outfit looked like at the end of the day. Pre-shrinking my fabric and cutting out the pattern pieces was as far as I got with my Hollyburn skirt. Sewing is unfortunately not as portable as knitting, so I couldn’t take my…