Swatching

Design Process: Plaited Tam

From FILATI Lavori a maglia #14 (a magazine of knitting patterns I found in a kiosk in the Milano Centrale train station):


Sometimes swatches lie

I decided to knit myself a Plaited Tam, but I want


Yarns for Cambia Capelet

I usually like to suggest some possible alternative yarns for my patterns:  I like to hit several yarn price points (and maybe if we're lucky, some of those yarns can be found on sale), some k


Which is better, One or Two?

In the last month I've taken myself and both of my sons for eye exams, which is perhaps why I have that phrase, "Which is better, one...


Rhodopsin*

I've been doing a lot of swatching in the past few weeks, both for unbloggable projects and for this capelet (thanks,


My own Leaf Yoke Top

I really hated to give up the sample I knitted in Tahki Nova for my


Swatch to the rescue

While knitting away on one sleeve of my yet-to-be-named top-down pullover, I realized that I probably wouldn't have enough yarn to make the sleeves as long as I wanted (slightly past wrist length).


Leaf Yoke Top

One of my patterns is in the new Spring/Summer 2009 issue of Knit.1!&


My friend Emily

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