Design Process: Plaited Tam

Posted in Design Process, Inspiration, Plaited Tam, Swatching, Twist Collective, Yarn, on 1 February 2010 - 6:19pm

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

Posted in Blocking, Cascade 220 , Gauge, Plaited Tam, Problems, Swatching, Twist Collective, Yarn, on 31 January 2010 - 8:37am

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

Brilliant!

Posted in Personal, Plaited Tam, Twist Collective, on 16 November 2009 - 6:55pm

When I see the exuberant emerald green of

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More Big Girl Knits, About the No-Gap Wrap Pullover

We love clever, and this sweater is clever.

Interweave Knits Summer 2007, About the Lutea Lace Shell:

...what appears at first glance to be a standard tank top knitted in flat pieces turns out on closer inspection to be an ingenious piece of three-dimensional sculpture.

- Pam Allen, Editor in Chief, Interweave Knits

Vogue Knitting Holiday 2009, About the Vine & Leaf Beret, Vogue Knitting Fall 2009:

Angela Hahn's vine-and-leaf lace hat from our Fall 2009 issue is showing up all over the web in myriad colors and textures, each as beautiful as the next.

-Trisha Malcolm, Editorial Director

From Brave New Knits

[Angela's] work has consistently been strong; the designs are traditional but contemporary in silhouette, highly wearable, and, because of her intriguing stitch pattern choices, fun to knit. The iconic Hahn design for me is the Wakame Lace Tunic...-- it's strikingly feminine and modern.

-Lisa Shroyer, senior editor at Interweave Knits