Gail sent me photos of her recent projects for her grandson and this delightful email. Now finished my grandson’s JoJo sweater and matching Tobie’s mittens. He is 10 and a half months old and lives in Jakarta Indonesia…where the temp
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Hi Holli. I’m attaching two photos of finished sweaters. I love your patterns! Thanks so much for many hours of great knitting… Well, thank you Jan for sharing your photos and your kind words. I just love the colour combination
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Look at this beautiful Lucy knit by Myriam. I just love the colour combination. Click her link to see more shots on her blog. Myriam is a local lower mainland knitter and teacher. She used Regia 4-ply yarn in one
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At a recent Guild meeting one of the members showed me her latest creation—a JoJo jacket. She found the self-patterning yarn she used was a little lacking for her tastes so she threw in a reverse stocking stitch ridge every
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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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While Two! is drying on the blocking board, I have a moment to pull together a tutorial on the picot cast-on that I call for in the girl’s version of the One! Two! Three! and Four! Five! Six! patterns. The
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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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Poor Devan, I rarely knit for him any longer. Long ago he outgrew my children’s patterns. So last summer I decided it was time to upsize one of my favourite sweaters for him—Avery. My pattern goes up to a size
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I snapped this picture at a recent Guild meeting. Yvonne is knitting an Avery and she’s done a great job on the corrugated ribbing. It’s so effective combining the self-patterning yarn with a solid for this stripey ribbing. Tweet

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. I
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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
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