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Category Archives: Design Process
Magpie Knitter and Fledgling – a design partnership
It’s been hard to settle down to work these days. As the kids are getting older, they’re getting busier – both now play tennis (which means lessons 3 times a week, since they’re not in the same class), and Lexie’s still doing gymnastics twice a week along with preschool the other 3 days. She’s desperate [...]
Tagged color, croqui, design sketches, designing
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The New Normal
The Navy spouse motto: Semper Gumby (Always Flexible). The normal in my household has undergone some pretty drastic revisions over the last few months. After just getting home from deployment in March, and then being gone much of the summer, my husband’s ship learned they’d be repeating the same deployment…with a little less than 2 [...]
Ravellenic warm up – stretching
The uninitiated might look at the Ravellenic Games and think, “That looks like a lot of fun!” And they would be right. They might also think – if not a knitter or crocheter themselves – “I can just dive right in when they light the torch!” And they would be wrong. You can’t just pick [...]
Also posted in Knitting
Tagged Laurels for Apollo, Olympic Trials, Panathenaic Swatching, Ravellenic Games
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I’m sorry, Type A – you’re not on the guest list
I tend to have trouble starting designs. Really, it’s the swatches I have trouble starting, but since I need to swatch before I can sketch (I need to see how my mental vision translates to yarn) or before I write up (I also need to make sure all my plans are feasible) not being able to [...]
Swatches, swatches everywhere
Swatchin’, swatchin’, swatchin’, Get those needles swatchin’, While swatches are a-blockin’, Design! That’s been my weekend…which really, isn’t a bad weekend to have. In this case I’m not working on a new design, but on the rework of Little Miss Mopsey. I’ve got several yarns that I was interested in trying out, and I wanted [...]
Also posted in Original Designs
Tagged araucania ruca solid, cascade yarns 220 sport, cascade yarns 220 superwash, cascade yarns heritage, cascade yarns sierra, cascade yarns venezia worsted, little miss mopsey, redesigning, reworking a design, three irish girls glenhaven cashmerino fingering, three irish girls springvale dk
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