One of the things I loved most about graduate school was the opportunity to meet and interact with amazing folk from all over the world, brought together by our singular love of learning. We've all moved on now: quite a few of us have made a successful place for ourselves in academia, others (like …
Bridget Pupillo Knitwear
Sneak Peek: Alhambra
I've been holding on to a series of designs for quite a while now (by quite a while now, I mean a few years) with a vague hope of publishing them together as a stand-alone collection. However, life continues to get in the way of such ambitious desires. And meanwhile, these designs are collecting …
Pleinmont Guernsey
I've been focused on my three-part blog series on the Hedgehog Smartphone and Tablet Covers, and I haven't yet had a chance to say: my Pleinmont Guernsey design has been published! About nine months ago, Knit Picks announced a call for submissions with a Gansey and Guernsey theme. Guernsey …
Hedgehogs Part Three: Duplicate Stitch
This will be the last of a three-part tutorial series for my Hedgehogs Smartphone and Tablet Cover design! In Part One, I explained how to do the provisional cast-on technique required for this design. In Part Two, I showed the three-needle bind off technique to make a nice sturdy seam at the …
Hedgehogs Part Two: Three Needle Bind Off
In the first of this three-part blog series, I ran through a step-by-step tutorial on provisional cast-on technique, and we ended by placing the live stitches back on a needle. Now in this second part, we will be "seaming" the live stitches using the three needle bind off technique. There is …