I want to thank Amy for a wonderful review of this class. I had a lot of fun with this group, who dove into intarsia with great enthusiasm and were lots of fun to be with. http://www.examiner.com/article/intarsia-students-enter-the-no-mistake-zone-at-vogue-knitting-live I want to remind everybody that you are now completely able to knit a color-block sweater! […]
I was impressed with the imagination and engagement of the knitters designing Intarsia motifs in Chicago. Several knitters put together more than one motif during class. The ideas were inventive, and they worked to turn those ideas into motifs that will be fun and easy to knit. I greatly enjoyed this class!
This was the very first time that Stitches held an event in Texas. I was pleased and honored to teach at this inaugural event, and I had a lovely time. The students were engaged and enthusiastic, the venue is beautiful, and the market was spectacular. Being the first event, it was less crowded than other […]
I seem to have a short attention span right now, and am going back and forth between some fun projects – it’s Play time! I knit up the homework for Teddy Bear Sweater Finishing class (watch for this one, it is a super fun way to learn lots of finishing technique!). Yesterday I attended […]
Yarn stores are a very particular type of place. Unlike many types of stores, they have personalities all their own, and knitters have certain expectations when they enter one. This isn’t really fair because they aren’t homes, they are businesses. But, somehow, when a knitter enters a good local yarn store (LYS), it feels as […]
This month I had the chance to teach at Lion Brand Yarn Studio, in Greenwich Village, NYC. I was honored and pleased to be invited, and had a wonderful time. The staff and students are amazing, and if you go to NYC, you should definitely make the time to check it out. […]
“Sassy” is a winner! It is comfortable and cozy, and very different from any other sweater I’ve knit. Bill’s eyes widened when he saw me in it, and he admitted that he hadn’t been very impressed with it, when it was being knit. But he loved it, on me! Color-blocking really needs to be seen […]
The knitting is done, ends are all buried, but there is still an important task to do before finishing a cardigan. Picking out the right buttons, and sewing them on. I searched through my button stash (yes, of course I have one!) and found the perfect button. It fits well into my simple “k2tog, yo” […]
Preparing for my only teaching trip to the East Coast this year, I developed a new class for teaching everything Annetarsia in a single day. I knit 3 fun projects for “Annetarsia: Be the Boss of your Intarsia”, and I knit them all twice, using different yarns. I wasn’t ready to move on, so I […]
The Swirl technically has one seam. After finishing the shoulder you may proceed to seam the sleeve from shoulder to cuff, but I recommend a different path. Because the end of a seam is often where fabric seems to bunch up inappropriately, end a seam where smoothing the fabric is easiest, generally under the arm. […]