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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Pa Jinglebob is a gruff, surly sheriff in a rough western town. He’s also a single dad and … a knitter. The town’s folk grumbled, What a joke! A sheriff who knits woolly sweaters? Whoever heard of a knitting sheriff?
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This was the first time in three years I didn’t participate in the Knit-Out market as part of Victoria’s FibreFest celebrations. It’s always such a mad rush to squeeze everything into the car, hope for a spot on the ferry,
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Procrastination seems to reach its height (for me) when it  comes to sewing on buttons. I was worried that by the time I finished Miss BB the weather would be sunny and warm and I would have to put this
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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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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.    sky blue    cornflower blue   
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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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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
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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
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I know, Christmas is long over, but I wanted to show you the gifts I knit for my two neices. I must confess, I was a little behind with my Christmas knitting and the girls finally got them for Chinese
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I don’t knit for myself very often any longer. In part it’s because designing and the business takes much of my time. When I do knit for myself, I like to learn or try something new. It could be a
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