My oldest son is overdue for a sweater, especially after his younger brother got the Ryuu-ko sweater earlier in the season. Hm, do I detect some jealousy here? That’s when I happened to bump into a new Ravelry group called … Continued
I am finally making good progress on my cable rib jacket that I started last October (free pattern: Cable & Rib Jacket by Debbie Bliss) . Things just got a wee bit hectic around the holiday season so that my … Continued
I don’t know if you heard about the miserable conditions on the Cheyenne River Reservation after a major snow storm hit the South Dakota region? I thought it was just fitting to attend my first Community Knitting event at a … Continued
I am excited to say that Petite Purls has accepted another of my designs for their Spring 2010 issue coming out in March! Unfortunately, I can’t give you any hints about or sneak peaks of my design and we all … Continued
I really needed a laptop sleeve to protect my laptop from all the scratches and scuff marks it was getting when traveling. But when I went to the stores, I could only find either mainly solid colored (boring) or funky … Continued
A few weeks back I saw an obscure little post on Ravelry.com about Knit Picks starting an Independent Designer Program (IDP) and sent Stacey an email for some more information. She immediately got back to me (wow, what great customer … Continued
It has been a whirlwind these final days before the Christmas holidays! Besides the kids being home from school and all the Christmas preparations, some design submissions and proposals were due, and of course my software consulting business had some … Continued
Yippee! The winter issue of Petite Purls is live and my first ever seamless, bottom-up, raglan sweater is part of it! The sweater is called “Ryuu-ko” which means “Dragon Child” in Japanese. The sweater is sized for 2T, 4, 6, … Continued