For about half of the "Magnificent 7 Guinea Pigs" group, one of the big fit issues was how to fit a sweater for a generous bust without it becoming a gunny sack.
OK, I have basically no background in the generous bust department.  But we’ve all been giving it our best shot, and successfully, too!  Here’s [...]

OK, I admit it’s been a couple of weeks, and I still have not fixed the collar on my top-down V-neck raglan from the Friday group class knit-along.  Part of that is due to a whole lot of teaching going on, and part of that is due to another sock pattern I am designing for [...]

The top-down rust raglan that I knit for the Friday Group Class knit-along was finished last Friday (or so I thought).
I picked up around the neckline and knit simple K2, P2 for a polo style collar.  (Turns out that isn’t going to work so well — but more about that in a minute.)
The moment of [...]

Here is what it looks like from my office window and my backyard these days:
 

And here is the yoke to my top-down raglan sweater so far.

With all this snow, and everything being cancelled, you might think I’d have gotten a bit more knitting done, wouldn’t you?
However, there have been extenuating circumstances.  A couple of colds [...]

It fits!

Wow, does it fit!
These may be the very least baggy armholes I have ever knit for myself.
 And — lest you think this is some kind of freak accident that was bound to happen someday if I just kept knitting long enough — looky, it pretty much matches the sweater I was trying to copy.

 
 
Attention [...]

As anyone who has been reading lately knows, the Friday Group class regulars decided that they wanted to do a top-down raglan sweater, knit-along style.
Only thing is, they are all different shapes and sizes — being that they are human beings and all.
And yet, they still all wanted ones that fit properly.
Picky, picky.
Enter moi, with [...]

Last Friday was our first top-down sweater knitalong class, and I’m so tickled with my Friday knitters, I just have to tell you.
I’ve got seven — count ‘em, SEVEN — knitters who are going to knit a top-down sweater along with me!!  It will be a project extending over a few months, so watch this [...]

Here’s a quote from the latest Vogue Knitting email:
 

Introducing the VK360°
Vogue Knitting Holiday 2008 is now officially on sale…and on video!
This issue, we decided to put every project up on the big screen—due in large part to all of your positive feedback (thanks VK readers!).

It seems they have started posting videos of the projects in [...]

I know, I know, I haven’t written anything for a whole week – didja miss me? – but it’s mainly because my journal subscription to Catherine Lowe’s couture knitting workshop arrived and I’ve been more-or-less submerged in it.  This stuff is GREAT.
The title of this post refers to the fact that it’s apparently not just [...]

Over at the [Knitting Daily->] blog, they’ve been discussing the design process used by Michelle Rose Orne in her book, Inspired to Knit.  I haven’t gotten the book yet, but Michelle’s description of her design process intrigues me:

As a designer for the garment industry for many years, I used … mood or “story boards” when [...]

Hey, are you getting as sick of the UFOlympics as I am?
It was fun to begin with — it was great to get a couple of projects out of the way and all that — but I’m getting a definite feeling of stuck-in-a-rut now.  Maybe this is why the real Olympics only last a couple of weeks, [...]

Fact:  boxy, square sweaters hide anything you’ve got worth showing.
An image consultant came to one of our local knitting guild meetings a couple of years ago.  She had a handout that showed some “before” and “after” pictures of women dressed in various clothing styles, which either suited and enhanced their body shapes, or didn’t. Here are some [...]

Q. When is a picture NOT worth a thousand words?
 
A.  When it is a BFL (Big Fat Lie).  
One of my biggest knitting peeves is photography in knitting publications that is a deliberate misrepresentation of the article in question.  (A close second is "artsy" photography, at the expense of seeing what the garment actually looks like.)
The most [...]

This year, while DH was off at the Sasquatch festival over Memorial Day weekend, I decided to clean out my closet. I hadn’t done a thorough job of this in about 6 years, during which time:

we moved from TX to OR,
I quit my day job, and
I lost ~10 pounds (from not eating fast food for [...]