Now that we are all back from our long weekend celebrations (hope yours was wonderful), I have a summer treat for you. Debbie Bliss has written a splendiferous new book, called: design it, knit it, babies. sixth & spring books has, once again, done a completely fantastic job of putting it all together. Before I [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘knitting’
June 9, 2010
Who won the Vogue Stitchionery?
Two weeks ago, I announced that one lucky (very lucky indeed!) winner would win a copy of: This glorious, wonderful book: Vogue Knitting’s Stitchionary 5 which is a treasure. And, tahdah! The lucky winner was Wendy, who is going to be using the book in her teaching! Congratulations, Wendy! May it bring you joy!
June 1, 2010
Profile of designer and artist Margaret Hubert
Margaret Hubert is one of the most gracious and charming women you will ever meet. She is an artist extra0rdinaire, an author, and a workshop presenter. I met Margaret through the International Freeform Fiber Artists Group on yahoo many years ago, and then have been lucky enough to be teaching at many of the same [...]
May 25, 2010
Win a copy of Vogue Knitting’s new Stitchionary
Knitters of the world rejoice! Sixth & Spring Books have just released their latest ‘Stitchionary’- The Ultimate Stitch Dictionary from the Editors of Vogue-Knitting Magazine. It’s a big honking bundle of joy- a coffee table size book in fact, and is just gorgeous. It’s a compendium of all kinds of recipes for knitting inspiration and [...]
May 9, 2010
The winner of 60 Quick Knits
Two weeks ago, I posted about a contest (link) to win the luscious new book: 60 Quick Knits from Sixth and Spring Books (click the title for the link) Drumrolls please! I chose the winner through the totally un-scientific method of having my husband pick a number. The winner is Sarah. I’ve sent her an [...]
April 21, 2010
60 Quick Knits rocks and you can win it
Scarves. Hats. Mittens. Ho hum, right? no no no no no! 60 Quick Knits actually makes me happy that I live in place that gets winter! This book impressed the heck out of me. I am a designer, so I know how hard it can be to re-interpret classic things like mitts, scarves and hats- [...]
February 16, 2009
Hook holders for beading in knit and crochet
Sylvia Cannizzaro sent me a note recently, saying that she likes to pre-load her beads onto crochet hooks when she’s beading with her knitting. She asked me if I could come up with some designs for sturdy little hook holders. I thought that this was a great idea, so I started sketching. This is what [...]
January 28, 2009
Lily is back!
I am so pleased! One of my most favorite dolls of all the thousands of dolls that I have designed, is ‘Lily’. Somehow, I managed to loose the file that had her pattern in it, and oops, had sold all my paper copies of her pattern. Oh my word! It’s been driving me nuts that [...]
January 27, 2009
I’m going to be on “Getting Loopy”
I’ll be talking about Rosie Recycle on Mary Beth Temple’s radio show: Getting Loopy, on Monday Feb 2. Here’s the link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Mary-Beth-Temple/2009/02/03/Getting-Loopy-Mary-Beth-Temple-talks-crochet Hope you call in so we can chat! ) Noreen
