It’s All About the Button! or "As seen on TV"

 
I received an email from Nancy McFarlane over July 4th weekend asking me if I had seen the sweater Amy Robach was wearing on The Today Show. Nancy had fallen in love with it and suggested that I should design a sweater that was similar.
Nancy’s thought was that it was the perfect sweater for which […]

Neck Warmer to Vest

  I really have to thank Lijuan’s Tango pattern for the inspiration for this vest. As I was knitting the neck warmer/hat, I kept thinking that the small cables would be beautiful in a vest.
I am afraid that I never did finish the neck warmer. It is still sitting in my knitting basket.
I began to […]

Ring of Lace and Lesson Learned

Ring of Lace is a pattern by Heartstrings. I can’t describe how beautiful it is and how clever. It is not a Moebius, just a simple circle of lace that is gorgeous.
I combined the pattern with a luxury yarn that suits the design and does not break the bank. The yarn is Cheryl Potter’s […]

Flat Feet Fun

I am sure that by now, many of you know what a Flat Feet flat is. For those of you who don’t, I’ll just go into a brief description. A flat is a knitted rectangle with waste yarn at either end. Two rectangles are joined with more waste yarn. Two flats joined = two […]

Gauge and Swatch Part 1

When I first started knitting over 50 years ago, I don’t remember my mother or my aunts teaching me about gauge. I do remember going to the yarn store, choosing a pattern, and then the shop owner pointing us to the yarn from which we could choose to knit the garment.
Once we chose the pattern, […]