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November 24, 2016
Design: Vexillology
I have a confession. I love knitting big ass shawls. These are not just your average shawl, or your big shawls. This are BIG shawls. And I love designing them. My friend Nikki of Dark Harbour Yarns (DHY) lives in New Zealand and dyes some amazing yarn in colours I often find myself needing. So when I had a the idea for Vexillology, she provided the yarn for the shawl version. Vexillology is a fingering weight design in an elongated…
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November 23, 2016
Design: Pepperberry Cowl
It seems I’ve been a bit lax in showing off my self-published designs. So while the Indie GAL sale is going on, I thought I’d go back through my included designs. The Pepperberry Cowl is the first pattern I self-published on Ravelry. It’s a fingering weight cowl that uses three colours, but you could use anything from two to as many colours as you want. I happened to have a need for using Madelinetosh 80/10/10 Fingering in Astrid Grey,…
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November 22, 2016
Indie Designer GAL 2016
The Indie designer Gift-a-long starts today and I’m finally able to participate as a designer. I really wanted to last year, but I was a design short of qualifying. What is this? This is a six week celebration of independent knitting and crochet designers. It involves a GAL 25% sale from all participating designers from tonight, 22nd November 2016 8pm US EST to 30th November 11.59pm US EST with the code ‘giftalong2016’. You need to use the code to…
Posted in Craft, Designs, IndieGAL, Knitting, PhD | By Mit
November 21, 2016
So, I’ve been absent…oops?
I’ve been quite a bit absent from here for quite a while. It wasn’t intended, really. I meant to post, I was just neck deep in Ph.D and then in Ph.D recovery once it was done. Which really has involved sleeping, a lot, knitting and reading. And more sleeping. I’m finally back to writing up some of the knitting patterns I’ve been collecting. See, while I’ve been busy with my Ph.D I have still been designing, I just haven’t…
Posted in Craft, Designs, Knitting, Life, PhD, Photography | By Mit
April 16, 2015
Things I did last year: Christmas crafts
A tradition from my childhood, and one I love to keep up, is to make gifts. Sometimes this involves making food such as jam (jelly if you’re in the USA), mustard, relish and often sweet treats, to give as hampers. It also involves making other stuff. Sometimes I start months in advance. One year I make 13 (check) Christmas stockings for the family. All colourwork. And I started in August so I could get them all done. Each one was…
Posted in Craft, Giftmas | By Mit