Tag: stitch patterns
Swatches and Braces
Good morning dear knitters! This week, my focus has, admittedly, been over on the photo side of my business pursuits. Some of that has been knitting photography for a favorite yarn maker, but most of it has been the busy fall portrait season. Families and high school seniors love photos in the gorgeous fall colors of […]
Playing With Stitch Patterns
One of my personal knitting goals this year is to draft an original (at least to me) stitch pattern. That means I’ll start with a blank piece of graph paper and some yarn and needles and just play, without consciously deriving from or referring to any published stitch pattern. Chances are that I’ll hit pretty […]
Multi-colored Yarns: Simpler Is Better
As folks begin thinking about stitch patterns for their FLY Skirt KAL projects I wanted to provide some thoughts on the subject. Because FLY stands for From Leftover Yarn, these projects will be using lots of different yarns in two similar color groups. Because of this, there is an opportunity to get a stripe effect, […]
Think Tank: Evolution
Recently I saw a variation of a familiar stitch pattern that intrigued me. I couldn’t remember ever seeing it before, though I’m certain it’s not new or even obscure. Just new to me. Rather than going to the published pattern wherein the stitch could be found and just knitting up a sample, I decided to […]
