by StephCat | Jun 27, 2010 | Knitting, Reviews & Interviews
The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design by Shannon Okey, Cooperative Press, 2010, 247 pp, $22.95. Available as a book and/or a PDF. This book, the only one specific to the business of knitwear design, is already being touted as the book current designers...
by StephCat | Jun 24, 2010 | Knitting, Reviews & Interviews
Aran Lace, Annie Maloney, 2010. $29.95 This isn’t a slickly produced, glossy-paged book. It’s spiral bound, 8.5×11″, with a clear plastic cover over the cardstock front cover. All photos, charts and text are black and white. It’s not...
by StephCat | Jun 23, 2010 | Knitting
Pippin’s shoulder straps are pretty darn cute. That’s all I’ve knit on it today so far. I did spend the last day re-drafting the pattern as top down rather than bottom up. I’m hoping to get as much knitting done as possible through this weekend...
by StephCat | Jun 22, 2010 | Knitting
Well, I had to frog my Pippin. Somehow I’d ended up with unequal amounts of ribbing on either side. Duh. I don’t know how I managed that: whether it was too much car knitting, too much dropping stitches & reknitting back up as I made on the fly...
by StephCat | Jun 21, 2010 | Knitting, Reviews & Interviews
Sock Innovation by Cookie A. Interweave Press LLC, 2009. 144 pp. I love Cookie A’s sock patterns — no surprise given that many of her patterns incorporate twisted stitches and I so adore that technique! Her patterns are clever, well-written, and fun to...
by StephCat | Jun 19, 2010 | Knitting
I’m hoping to get a fair amount of work done on Pippin; I also need to work on a 2nd fingerless beaded mitten (the pattern was just accepted, but I’d only knit the one). I also need to work up patterns & spreadsheets for a skirt and a sweater. ...
