I have two exciting things to tell you about this week.
(photo courtesy of the Yarnover Truck)
First off, for those of you in the Los Angeles, California area– this weekend is your friendly local yarn crawl! If you’ve never been on a yarn crawl, they are so much fun! You hop from shop to shop, stamping [...]

Recently I had a dream opportunity to create some custom yarn colors with Craftsy and Cascade. They are finally here and now I can share!

I chose Cascade Ultra Alpaca, a super soft and drapey yarn that’s squishy and warm. The colors were really tough to choose– Cascade already has soooo many! So I decided to [...]

Craftsy is having a Valentine’s Day Sale! Not only can you get my crochet classes (check out all the cute projects!), you can also check out all of the awesomeness we’ve been working hard to produce. I’ve met so many awesome instructors and I think you’ll not only learn, but enjoy watching these classes and [...]

When I first started going to my local yarn shop (in Montana) one of the yarns I was immediately drawn to was Noro. The colors are simply amazing, and as a designer, I’ve always loved it for it’s LONG repeat. Variegated yarns often alternate colors too quickly for crochet, and so do many “self striping” [...]

In the spirit of avoiding shopping malls, all of my individual patterns are on sale for 20% off from now until Monday 11/26 with the coupon code turkeyday. In case you missed it, I released individual patterns from my E-book last week as well, and those are included in the sale as well.  This applies only [...]

Whew, I have been remiss in blogging my new designs, but there are a lot of recent releases right now. Just before I took this job and moved our lives to Colorado, I was really ramping up my submissions and they were all nestled together in release times, so enjoy.  I love my job, but [...]

The lovely ladies at Tangled have done it again with their fall collection of knit and crochet designs! I always look forward to seeing the mix of knitting and crochet in their seasonal collection.

My contribution for fall is the Eyelet Yoke Cardi (here’s the Ravelry page), a simple to work top-down cardigan with a little [...]

Just a few little updates on my recently released E-book venture, Sugar and Spice: Six Bakery Inspired Crochet Designs.

First off, you can listen to me talk about why e-books and my inspiration for these particular projects (plus get a chance to win one!)  in the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird. We podcasted live from [...]

I’ve been working on a secret project for the past year that I can finally share with you; it’s an e-book! Last year, when I had no idea where time would take me, I knew I wanted to work on a book-like project and I wanted to do it myself. The Malabrigo Freelance Pattern Project [...]

As the weather gets crisper here in Colorado, I can see our little dog shivering more and more. Even though he has one (or two) handmade sweaters I figured it would be a good idea to get some more for him, since there are many cold days ahead. I actually purchased a fleece one but [...]