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neoknits volume one: beulah

Last, but not least, here is the final pattern in the collection: Beulah. A winding, leafy cable pattern adorns your choice of a beret or cloche style hat. The pattern meets perfectly in the center with tidy little baby cables. Beulah makes a wonderful spring hat and was designed to compliment Beulah’s Mitts. Beulah may [...]

A Tale of Two Hats

Well, this is really supposed to be the tale of one hat, but double the hats are more fun right? When I started my collection, I had a pretty solid 4 patterns sketched up with 2 others that might work. Well, everything got turned around as I started knitting and projects started to morph into [...]

Sketching 101: Stylized flats

Once you’ve gotten the hang of drawing your run of the mill flat sketch, what type of things can you do to make your flat a little more stylized or interesting? And how do you draw a convincing looking stitch pattern on the body if that is what the design calls for? Here’s a few [...]

neoknits volume one: lillian’s mitts

Introducing pattern number 5 in the neoknits volume one collection: Lillian’s Mitts. Lillian’s Mitts are a nice transitional knit as we long for the warm days of Spring just around the corner. The little tabs on the cuff of these fingerless wristlet gloves echo the same detail found on the Lillian beret. A 1×1 rib [...]

Sketching 101: flat sketching

Sketching for design submissions seems to be a hot topic lately on Ravelry and twitter, so I thought it might make some nice blog content while I’m working on my super secret (and therefore super boring) projects. I am going to start out with flat sketching since it’s a little easier to do and makes [...]