What do you do to energize yourself and get your creative juices flowing? I’ve been completely uninspired lately. I’ll sit for long periods of time without knitting. This no knitting thing is kind of bizarre for me.
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The many necks of Avery
Simply making everything proportionately larger did not work for upsizing Avery. Some changes and experimentation have been necessary.
The neck was a major challenge.
The Knitter’s Child
Poor Hana, I rarely knit for her any longer. Long ago she outgrew my children’s patterns. So last summer I decided it was time to upsize one of my favourite sweaters for her—Avery.
Pick a colour
Time to choose a coordinating colour for the edging on the pompom baby sweater. I now know that the baby is a boy and I need your help to choose an appropriate colour.
What do you think; which colour would you choose?
Intarsia Recap
Had a great workshop today with some of the Guild ladies. They asked some really great questions and I’m always so happy to share my knowledge.
I recreated several intarsia samples that were lost during our move last fall.
New Samples
I lost all my workshop samples during our move last Fall. I kept on hoping the bag of samples would turn up under a pile of boxes. No such luck.
So now I’m reknitting intarsia samples for my workshop this weekend with the West Coast Knitters’ Guild.
It’s a helluva town!
Our trip to New York was wonderful. I ate up every minute of it and so enjoyed wandering through the various neighbourhoods.
Absolutely no knitting was accomplished on the trip because I hardly sat down, but I did manage to pop in to a few of the LYSs.
Let me introduce
… you to Jeff Joey Jr and Miss Kitty. The girls in my crochet class this time around are real characters. I designed a dog for them to crochet and adapted a LionBrand cat stuffy.
Check Your Gauge!
You know, when I knit someone else’s design I always knit a gauge swatch. When I develop a new design myself, I always knit a gauge swatch. But when I knit one of my own designs using sock yarn I must confess, I never swatch.
