I’ve had the Central Park Hoodie pattern — and the yarn I’d planned to make it with — for something like eight years. I absolutely adore this sweater. But I felt seriously lacking in the confidence to actually make the sweater. I wasn’t sure about size, and then my gauge swatch was wonky, and...
I started this piece well over a year ago, shortly before I broke my wrist. It started out as a tiny doodle in a notepad. I constructed a big honking spiral, transferred it to the back piece of an old army shirt (it doesn’t fit me anymore, might as well recycle it, right?) and...
Last November, &Stitches hosted a blackwork stitchalong — specifically blackwork in any color other than black. They made these adorable templates, and you just can’t turn down a stitchalong with cute templates, right? At least I can’t. This was only a few weeks after I got the cast off my arm, and I was...
I first saw one of these nifty hanging thread catcher bag/pincushion combo things at Whipstitch a while back, and I became sort of obsessed with making one. Seriously, how awesome are those things? Since then I've seen them all over, and one of the first things I did after I finished the sampler quilt...
