Rose-of-Sharon

My friend Emily

Posted in Beaufort hat, Chinese Lace Pullover, Cinnabar Hat, Coin Cable Hat, Dayflower Lace Camisole, Design Process, Emily Ocker's Cast on, Inspiration, Knitting Needles, Maple Seed Hat, Problems, Rose-of-Sharon, Swatching, Tutorial, Wisteria Child's Dress, on 29 September 2008 - 4:27pm

25 Sept 013 web For some reason I really enjoy figuring out how to work decreases and increases into stitch patterns: witness all of my hats (Beaufort, Maple Seed, Rose of Sharo

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Get your Cinnabar and Rose-of-Sharon here!

Posted in Cinnabar Scarf, Magknits, Original Pattern, Rose-of-Sharon, Seaside fingerless gloves, on 9 April 2008 - 3:28pm

Top_of_rose_of_sharon_crop Sadly, the Magknits site has been abruptly shut down; I will always be grateful to them for the chance to showcase several of my early designs to a wide web audience, and it's unfortunate that the same opportu

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Poetic license

Posted in Random, Rose-of-Sharon, on 1 August 2006 - 10:14am

Now that our Hibiscus syriacus, or Rose-of Sharon, is in full bloom, I'm afraid that the flowers are much pinker than I remembered.  They are lovely, and more numeroous than ever, but not quite the shade of lavender that would match my eponymous hat.  However, I did notice that the spent blooms, which fall in profusion and are cigar-butt shaped, thus resembling nothing so much as the detritus from a stogie-lover's convention, do have a purplish cast.  Purplish-greyish.  At least they don't have that old-cigar stink.  I thought I should put a link to Rose-of-Sharon under "free patterns," and so it is done.

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Another reader knit

Posted in Magknits, Pattern Writing, Reader Knits, Rose-of-Sharon, on 18 July 2006 - 9:55am

This cute raspberry number was knitted by Thiire from Finland.  She e-mailed me before starting the hat crown decreases:  I am knitting the smallest size, and am about to start the crown shape. Crown shaping:  Rnd 1: *K1, YO, k2, SSK, (k2tog) twice, YO. Rep from * to end of rnd. 64(72, 80) sts.Rnds 2, 4, 6, 8: K.Rnd 3: *YO, (SSK) twice, k2tog, k1, YO, k1. Rep from * to end of rnd. 56(63, 70) sts. I do not understand the parts which I colored red above. Am I meant to do k2tog twice (or not at all) in the round 1?Am I meant to do SSK twice or not at all in the round three? At first I didn't understand her confusion--and then I realized that she was wondering if the fact that the k2tog and the SSK were in parentheses meant that they should only be worked for the medium and large sizes.  I was trying to avoid confusion by using those parentheses, but I think they are really unnecessary. Thanks for your question, Thiire!  This pattern-writing is certainly a learning process.   

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My first reader knits!

Posted in Magknits, Reader Knits, Rose-of-Sharon, on 7 July 2006 - 1:22pm

Nancy sent me this picture of her Rose-of-Sharon hat, made from my pattern featured in the June Magknits.  I love the purple and white combo--and love being able to post a picture of something I didn't have to knit myself!  Perhaps someday I'll even have enough reader FOs to require a Gallery, a la the Grumpster's; one can dream, anyway.  I know of at least one more WIP on its way to becoming an FO:  click here to see a lovely pale green Beaufort hat in progress.

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Inspiration

Posted in Chinese Lace Pullover, Design Process, Inspiration, Magknits, Rose-of-Sharon, on 1 June 2006 - 1:39pm

Picture_102_edited_1 No, I didn't knit this.  I purchased it at Barneys for way too much money--and then found an area next to one side seam where several stitches were unraveling.  (Rather than go to the trouble of trying to exchange it, I just fixed it).  I thi

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