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  • Comfort Garments Measurements
    I must admit, I haven’t knit many sweaters for myself. Maybe half a dozen or so, but that’s it. I have made it enough though that when I learned about the concept of measuring a comfort garment, I thought, “duh!” Why didn’t I think about this before? The idea is, you grab garments out of…
  • Reintroducing Rubrick
    From simple inspiration to a simply stunning design.  Inspiration comes from many sources. Rubrick grew out of my fascination with the colors in an info graphic. More than that, it was an infographic for MOPP gear, of all things.  I walked past that graphic hanging on a bulletin board in my office building for nearly…
  • My Thoughts on Fleece Processing
    I don’t know if it’s my age or just the phase of my life I am in but, recently I’ve been kind of drawing a line between what I like and what I don’t like and coming to terms with the fact that it’s OK.  As it turns out, I like buying fleece and I…
  • Reintroducing the Ashes
    At the tail end of 2018, I was on a high from releasing my first pattern, Aunt Maggie, and didn’t want the momentum to stop. I set out to design my first shawl. My first stop was Craftsy. I knew absolutely nothing about designing shawls so I decided my best bet was to work through…
  • Show & Tell: Easy Purl Side Grafting
    In Spin Control Podcast, Episode #154: Happy Place, I talk about a new easy purl side grafting method I have been using. I got A LOT of questions so I figured I had better do a video. Enjoy!