I’m very excited to have two projects featured in the Summer 2011 Issue of Interweave Crochet!

First is the Zipline Shell, an easy to work tank that has minimal shaping. I made the sample with Tahki Stacy Charles Cotton Classic Lite, which is a great sport weight mercerized cotton. As I’ve said before, thinner yarn= prettier [...]

The biggest thrill that I get as a crochet designer/ author is seeing people’s projects when they take the time to make one of my patterns. I love to see what y’all come up with, it’s so inspiring! When  you add your projects to ravelry, I can see the ones made with my patterns in [...]

Thanks to everyone who came out to my book signing and class at The Knitting Nest in Austin. It was so nice to see some old friends and meet some new ones. One woman told me she had made my Raspberry Beret pattern at least 30 times–wow!!

Here are the lovely ladies from my Tegue’s Jingle [...]

Despite having lots of projects I should be working on–you know, the kind with deadlines?–I was recently inspired to start a sweater for my nephew. If you read the dedication in Little Crochet, you’ll see that the book is dedicated him, he is just an amazingly sweet little guy. I’m going to take next week [...]

So, I actually took myself out for a photo shoot…with, myself, because we have been busy around these parts. I got some decent shots of my finished Peanut Butter Cardigan (which I’m calling Green Bean Cardigan) just to give you an idea of the fit on an average-ish body. I made the Medium, size 40″ [...]

Before the month gets away from me (how does this keep happening?!) I wanted to mention some classes and events in San Antonio + Austin, TX.

This weekend at Yarnivore, I’m starting a 2-lesson class on the Swing Set Cardigan from Little Crochet. We’ll learn to make increases, read patterns, and mainly I’ll just get you [...]

In this midst of all my  blog touring, book promoting and class debuting action, I’ve been happily stitching away on a Peanut Butter Cardigan of my very own (here’s my project page). I’m teaching it as a class at Yarnivore, which has also provided an opportunity to work through some of the other sizes. I’m [...]

Today I want to tell you a little bit about my friend Susan Beal’s other new book, World of Geekcraft (book website here). The book is a nice little collection of all kinds of pop-culture/geek inspired projects, from beading and embroidery to knitting, quilting and cake decorating.

When Susan asked me to contribute to the book, [...]

I’m very excited to announce that you can now take crochet classes with me, no matter where you live. Last month I taped two classes with a great company called Sympoz.com. They professionally produced the classes, which are online and interactive and will be part of their new website, Craftsy.com. Their cool learning platform makes [...]

Well, that was a whirlwind of a blog tour! Thanks so much to everyone who posted and shared, and to all of you for the nice comments you left on each post. If you missed anything, head over to the last post, which includes links to all of them. I am thrilled to see so [...]