New Moon Studio: Porcelain Pomegranate I’ve been partial to pomegranates ever since I was a child visiting Dominica in the Carribean with my family. I loved picking the little seeds out and eating them one by one. I became even
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Every designer has her/his own way of approaching a new project. I like to figure out all the numbers and sizes before I settle down to knit my first sample. I even write up the instructions. I get the fiddly
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I’m just loving working with Sandnes Mini Palett (colourway 0964). It’s one of the yarns I picked up to swatch for my next series of designs. The colours flow through the ball in slow colour shifts and it’s mesmerizing. While
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How many designs are safe to juggle at the same time? I’m working on three sweaters I designed some time ago for Skacel (those pictures are of my original samples). The rights have reverted back to me so now I’m
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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. It’s not completely
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Simply making everything proportionately larger did not work for upsizing Avery. Some changes and experimentation have been necessary. The neck was a major challenge. First I knit the same neckband as called for in my pattern: corrugated ribbing with a
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One! Two! Three! Four! Five! Six! Just released this week, two new patterns to celebrate the little children in your life. Toddlers love counting and each is so proud of his age. Celebrate your birthday boy or girl’s age with
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Can’t talk. The crochet class at school is finished and the kids were really happy with their hacky sacs. They did a great job. Madly knitting samples for the Victoria Knit-Out. Love this new colourway and I have lots of
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I can finally tell you about my hush, hush project! The summer issue of Twist Collective went live yesterday and contains a feature with kids’ designs. My design, Dizzy is on page 16. It’s so exciting to see it published and
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My silence is due to my busy schedule! I organized a weekend workshop for the Guild with Jean Wong. I love going to workshops, but organizing them is always more work than I anticipated! It was a fabulous weekend with
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This week marks the final round of edits to my hush, hush pattern. I’ve reviewed the pattern now that it’s been layed out on the page with photography, schematics and so forth all in place. It looks like a real
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Do I have enough straight pins now? On a recent trip to Dressew I found this huge box of nickel plated brass dressmakers pins which won’t rust. The perfect tool for blocking. Now I never need to worry about running
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