Please enjoy an automatic introductory 20% off the Little Monarch pattern through Sunday, May 9, in my web store, Ravelry or Payhip. When I released the adult Monarch pattern earlier this year, I received a flood of requests for a children’s version of the design. I immediately set to work. The sample below, modeled by…
Tag: colorwork
Milkweed & Monarch
Both Milkweed and Monarch patterns are automatically 20% off in my web shop, on Ravelry and on Payhip through January 17! Milkweed/Monarch is the first sweater pattern duo that I’ve ever released. The design started as a milkweed sweater with a column of monarch butterflies inserted into the yoke over the heart area. As I…
Herbaceous and Herbal Buds: A Tribute to Herbs and an Indie Untangled Release
My Herbaceous pullover pattern and Herbal Buds hat pattern are now live and available for purchase here on my website, Ravelry and Payhip. The patterns are automatically 20% off through the 24th (no code needed). I released these patterns to coincide with Indie Untangled Everywhere and the Zoom session in which I was featured. Herbs…
Rattlesnake Tee
Rattlesnake is now available for purchase here in my web shop, on Payhip and on Ravelry. For more detailed pattern info, visit my my shop. Be sure to check out all the sample photos below, as well as some of my testers’ photos at the bottom! Rattlesnake uses DK weight yarn and features a colorwork…
Swallowtail
Meet my latest design–Swallowtail! This pullover features a ton of stranded colorwork with fingering weight yarn, all centered on the zebra swallowtail butterfly. This species is my favorite of all the butterflies, and it was fun playing with both the modern and natural elements and deconstructing them into various motifs. For my sample above, I…
The Great Christmas Hat-a-thon
In the two weeks leading up to Christmas, I cranked out four hats for gifts for my husband’s family. Earlier in the season I also knit a hat for a friend, as well as a hat for a newborn. That’s six hats! Below are the details for each hat. Be sure to let me know…
Steeking Tutorial for Hyphenated
To purchase the Hyphenated knitting pattern on Ravelry, click here. For many–if not most–knitters, the idea of steeking evokes feelings of trepidation, anxiety and discomfort. It is only natural to feel this way, given that steeking involves slicing up your hard-earned knitted garment. Attempting it willy nilly with no plan would be downright scary, which…
Hyphenated
I am quite proud of my newest knitting pattern. Hyphenated is my favorite design that I have created thus far, and it is also among my favorite sweaters that I have knit, ever. I knit two samples for this design. The sample shown here is the pullover version. In a few days I’ll be posting…
Red Moon Tee
With the completion of my Red Moon Tee, I believe I just finished knitting the most brightly colored sweater I’ve ever made. It is so fun! PROJECT BREAKDOWN Pattern: Red Moon Sweater by Born and Raised Knits Yarn: Kindred Red Rad Sock in the colorways Willow’s Sweaters and Roarange To view my Red Moon tee…
Sipila: 2019’s Purple Birthday Sweater
My attitude toward colorwork is decidedly ambivalent. I am totally smitten with colorwork motifs, but the process is never one that I enjoy. You may be familiar with my not-so-stranded method for knitting colorwork in which I catch the floats following every stitch. While I have determined that this method works best for me, it…