This is a history of the Cherry Hills shawl more than of the location in Colorado. I’ll talk a little bit about that but I want to share the inspiration behind this shawl and that is the history I am referring to. As I shared in a past blog post this shawl is a remakeContinue reading “History of Cherry Hills”
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The Crazy for this Project
This shawl started as a curious experiment and will now become two completed patterns. One in knit and one in crochet. I have learned a lot along the way. It started with mitered squares and then I wondered what would happen if I shifted the “spine”… I tried it first on a small bit ofContinue reading “The Crazy for this Project”
Why I changed Sophie to Cherry Hills
Sophie is an Estonian style shawl that I published back in 2013. I used photos to put together the motifs for this shawl. These photos were in an Estonian Lace book. There was a second book put out before I published this pattern with a recipe for this shawl. I honestly don’t know if IContinue reading “Why I changed Sophie to Cherry Hills”
Written or Charted Directions?
I have recently talked about how much tech has changed just since I started writing patterns for knit and crochet. Another area that has been affected is charts, knitting charts in particular. When I started I was excited to be able to purchase software that would let me plug the stitches into a grid easily.Continue reading “Written or Charted Directions?”
Design As You Go or…
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…”
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”
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”
Azariahs Fibre Arts 