I have a confession to make.
I really do enjoy holiday sweaters. Not the Kmart variety with tinsel and applique candy canes, but the handknit styles with reindeer and pine trees.
Many years ago, as twenty-something knitter, I received my copy of the Winter Vogue Knitting c. 1985 in the mail and lightning struck! This sweater HAD to be mine:
As [...]
For any of you who will be in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend, I will be signing books and giving a class called “Fundies: Knit Your Own Lingerie”at the Knitting Basket in Oakland on Saturday, Dec 1.
I’ll have many garments from Knitting Lingerie Style with me and some of my vintage inspired styles from White [...]
Thanksgiving weekend is usually the time when I go up into the attic and take stock of our holiday decorations. I usually find some forgotten treasures up there as well as some winter clothing that needs to be brought down, washed and used.
In the case of the latter I found a bag of my son’s [...]
I have a lot to be thankful for, but one of the things that comes to mind most often is how grateful I am to be married to a wonderful man.
We spent Thanksgiving day with me on the sofa knitting and he in the kitchen cooking; him coming out to me now and then with little [...]
People see our ads in knitting magazines and think we’re a large company with a huge staff housed in a corporate headquarters somewhere.
I’m going to blow our cover and tell the world it just ain’t so. We are a mom and pop business run by my husband and I out of our ranch style home [...]
When one is in the business of producing knitting patterns for sale, they find that personal knitting time becomes almost non-existent. I do like to knit my own samples as I can tweak fit and construction on the needles, and then write those changes into the pattern. I’m not complaining mind you, it’s just that [...]
I don’t frequently have the time to knit other designers patterns but sometimes my needles are itching to just knit without thinking too much. That’s when I begin to look around and see what others are doing that might fit into my wardobe. I’d been wanting some kind of scarf wrap thingy and when I [...]
Ok, so I’m a bit late to the blogging party. I do enjoy reading other folks’ blogs, and not just the knitting ones. I’ve discovered the sewing blogs as well!
I come from a sewing background and have always made my own clothes and home furnishings when I could. However, I burnt myself out many years [...]
