iLichen

I am excited to offer my first pattern for sale through Ravelry.  Just in time for spring and summer knitting, it’s a loose fitting cami that knits up quickly with a decorative accent that can be optional.   I knit this back in December and have had test knitters working on it for a few months.   [...]

Switchback

I have finally made a decision on what to call my new design project.  Switchback.  I actually had this name in mind when I started.  I wanted to create a switchback pattern for the upper body of a sweater. It was not to be, I couldn’t get was I was looking either because my lack if [...]

Knitting Funk

I have been so unmotivated.  So busy, yet unmotivated.  Seems like life is just getting in the way of my knitting.  My two favorite things in life other than my boys, except they aren’t really “things,”  are knitting and cycling.  The cycling has morphed into other endurance hobbies like triathlon and adventure races, but needless to say [...]

Getting Started on a Design

Not the greatest picture since I took it with my mobile phone, but I decided to share something I have been thinking about for a while.  I want to share my process of designing a sweater.  Though I have already designed a camisole which I submitted to Knitty.com, it was a fairly simple design.  I [...]

Thanksgiving in North Texas

Sharing some images from north Texas where we’re hangin’ with my husband’s family for Thanksgiving.  It’s quite lovely here this time of year, and we can even stand to be outside for long stretches of time (unlike in the oppressive heat of summer).  Took most of these pictures on a lake walk with the boys [...]