Inspiration

Menemsha Pullover: Interweave Knits Summer 2012

Posted in Inspiration, Interweave Knits, Menemsha, on 10 May 2012 - 11:47am

I have a pattern in the new Summer 2012 issue of interweave Knits: the Menemsha Pullover. The lace cable pattern I used for the yoke is one of my all-time favorites.

Easter parade

Posted in Design Process, Inspiration, Personal, Yarn, on 24 April 2011 - 6:43am

Or a parade of bunnies, anyway.

It is indeed a hat!

Posted in Arriccia Hat, Blocking, Inspiration, Madelinetosh Tosh DK, Original Pattern, Pattern Writing, on 6 December 2010 - 4:03pm

AND it's a free pattern!

Pattern coming soon!

Posted in Inspiration, Madelinetosh Tosh DK, on 4 December 2010 - 5:29pm

Can you tell what it is?!

Master Holman's Hat

Posted in Inspiration, Personal, Random, Travel, on 14 November 2010 - 7:39pm

While at Plimoth Plantation on a school field trip last week, we visited the 1627 English village, an

He's the best!

Posted in Inspiration, Personal, Sideways Aran Wrap, Vogue Knitting, on 19 October 2010 - 5:08pm

When we designed a new office for my husband, we included a space for a stained glass window. It's an interior window, between the office proper and the stairwell.

Onda Scarf or Wrap

Posted in Chart, Design Process, Inspiration, Madelinetosh Tosh DK, Misti Alpaca Tonos Pima Silk, Onda, Original Pattern, Swatching, on 16 October 2010 - 2:30pm

Pattern now available!

Inversion Gansey

Posted in Inspiration, Interweave Knits, Inversion Gansey, Louet MerLin, Swatching, Yarn, on 28 July 2010 - 11:49am

Maybe the Interweave Knits editors chose the name "Inversion Gansey" because the lace patterns used on the body are inverted on the sleeves, since they are worked from the top down?

World Cup knitting!

Posted in Inspiration, Italian, Soapbox, Yarn, on 14 June 2010 - 8:00am

Sferruzzare Mondiale!

NYC!!

Posted in Inspiration, Personal, Travel, on 18 May 2010 - 9:26am

(This post is going to be long on photos and short on text.)

Featured Pattern

The Chinese Lace Pullover is a perfect spring-into-summer project, as shown in cotton (or try a cotton/wool or cotton/linen blend). Lace borders on cuffs and lower hem flow into wide, figure-flattering ribs on the sleeves and body. Directions given for working flat OR in the round. See more patterns

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Press

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