Almost two years ago, I started playing with a shell design while I swatched for something or another. I realized that when I changed colors every two rows, the shells sort-of looked like flowers. Actually, I must have been playing with my Lacy Shells Hat Pattern at the time. The lace pattern reminded me of [...]

The September/October issue of Crochet Today–which is surprisingly already available for preview–has a special section focusing on patterns for those new to the hook. Keeping in mind what I’ve learned through teaching, I designed three of them, each focusing on one main stitch for beginners to practice.  However, you don’t need to be a beginner [...]

When I checked the mail today, I found my contributor’s copies for two magazines that I have projects in–always exciting!

The first mag was Inside Crochet, a UK crochet magazine that has a good mix of garments, home decor and other stuff to crochet (I like a good mix!). My design is the Summer Picnic Wrap, [...]

I’m in that in-between stage where I’m waiting for more projects (which are on the way, but not here yet- argh!). When Betsy McCarthy (author of Knit Socks) was on the Today Show, she said that the challenge of working at home is learning to live with ambiguity. Let me tell you, it still freaks [...]

Hooray!

You can’t tell from the photo (or maybe you can!) but I have a terrible head cold and drove through some damn scary torrential rains this morning to get to work. I need a nap! But look! Cardi! Pretty! Fun! And I was so excited to set up my first student today with the yarn [...]

The preview for the next issue of Crochet Today magazine is up and WOW! There’s a whole bunch of stuff that makes my fingers itch! Super, super cute and totally wearable stuff. There’s some really elegant and heirloom quality bridal stuff, along with  brightly colored sweaters (hooray for Stitch Nation yarn!), a zoo of cute [...]

Well, this week is just chock full of fun crochet projects after all. Today, Craft published my pullover to cardigan upcycling project. Click here to see it! (Note: There’s an accompanying PDF, but that won’t be up till tomorrow due to technical issues).

Long story short: This month’s seem is recycling/upcycling. I have a couple of [...]

Today I want to show you the before and after of the Flower Power Pillow (ravelry link) in the Spring 2010 issue of Interweave Crochet. As with the Kaleidoscope Eyes Mat (ravelry link), I made this project twice. Again, in my version, I was working with scraps. Generally when I have time to make something for [...]

So I lied when I said the blog would be quiet this week– I didn’t realize that the preview of Interweave Crochet’s Spring issue would finally be posted, and I’m too excited about my patterns to wait to blog about this issue!  I have 2 patterns in the magazine, the Flower Power Pillow (ravelry link) [...]

I’ve been a bit behind in mentioning some of my published projects, and here are two I’d like to share with you. First up is the Candy Cloche (Ravelry Link)  in Interweave Crochet’s Winter 2009 Issue. This hat makes  use of a star stitch (or marguerite stitch) on the brim, and a few readers have [...]