Azariah Fibre Arts

Baby Booties Pattern!

Here it is as promised! All the links to the videos, including the finishing video can be found on page 2 of the pattern. Happy Making!

There are many different kinds of people in the world all with various amounts of levels of planning and details. I teeter between two of these different types. All planned out before the first stitch on the “final” project is made or let’s get started and see what’s going to happen. These two extremes areContinue reading “Design As You Go or…”

Why I Design…

My design journey started back in the early 2000s, shortly after learning how to crochet. I had made all the things for our home; blankets, doilies, place mats and dish cloths. Now what? My husband saw an article about knitting for charity. Could I crochet for charity? Turns out that the answer is “yes”. IContinue reading “Why I Design…”

Somethings are Never Forgotten…

One of the first patterns I ever wrote down was for these baby booties. I have them from all sizes of baby feet. From 16 weeks gestation to 3 months old. This was a popular pattern in the community stitching group I was part of in Aurora, Colorado for many years. Then I made someContinue reading “Somethings are Never Forgotten…”

Beads

During the design process I try to map out where I’m going with a design, how many rows and stitches, so that I can make sure I have enough yarn. With this design I needed to do the same thing for the beads. I had the gold beads already, quite a few of them. IContinue reading “Beads”

Moths

The little clothes moth is a bane to knitters, crocheters and any other wool or natural protein fiber lover. When we moved to southern New Mexico from Colorado, I was careful with my fiber stash, mostly wool. I checked for moths in everything from fleece to yarn. I am happy to say that I haven’tContinue reading “Moths”

Feather and Fan Shawl

This shawl has been a process of chart, knit, rip, repeat. I finally found the formula I needed to make a half pi shawl with the feather and fan stitch. This is the first version of this shawl. I am using 100% non super-wash wool in DK weight. I am adding beads to this one.Continue reading “Feather and Fan Shawl”

Tutorial Choices

I love love sharing the different tricks I discover, learn and to take a word from Elizabeth Zimmerman, unvent. There are many ways to share those. In person and that is my favorite. Through photo tutorials, which I have done a few of and the easiest for us all I think, video tutorials. These takeContinue reading “Tutorial Choices”

Counting Rows/Rounds Swatch

Here are the directions for the swatch that I made to use in the video to count rows/rounds in knitting. If you haven’t seen the video, the link is here. I think that if you make the swatch yourself, counting rows and rounds in knitting will be even easier for you than after watching theContinue reading “Counting Rows/Rounds Swatch”

Shawls and Their Charts

This is an eBook I got as part of the Swatch Studio Circle. I’m not sure where to find a copy now. You can message Frenchie here on Instagram and ask. She is the author. There is both charted and written directions. I started this with the 5 day challenge Frenchie does on occasion onContinue reading “Shawls and Their Charts”