Category Archives: pattern

Branching Out

I have had a busy year – family, health, designing – all have presented challenges and rewards.  The biggest challenge has been to my time and time management.  I am hoping for better this year!

One of the biggest changes and challenges has been the addition of a new designing outlet.  I am now working with Selena Miskin of Wayfaring Yarns.  We met last year at Rhinebeck and have hit it off both as friends and as designers.  We are selling kits for some of our patterns through our website Sweater Sisters.

 

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My second pattern for Sweater Sisters is still under construction!

My first pattern for Sweater Sisters is being released tonight on Ravelry.  And I am so excited to be sharing this with you!  The pattern and kit will be available as well on the Sweater Sisters website!

 

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Lumi is a hooded capelet.  It is cabled with lace faggoting cables and regular cables, shaped to the neck and at the shoulders, sprinkled with beads and knit with mohair and silk!  I am quite in love with this enchanting accessory!  I hope that you will love it too!
Light and luminous this hooded capelet is the perfect topper for your coat on a cold day or better yet that beautiful evening dress that just needs a little something to keep you warm and beautiful. The open Faggotting Cable makes the basic cable stitch a little more elegant and adds to the ethereal effect of the silk mohair yarn. The Size 6/0 beads are scattered around the edge of the hood and placed on the first few rows of the Garter stitch edging, adding just the right amount of sparkle.

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Detail of the new Belle Starr Shawl

I am continuing to work with Buffalo Wool Co.  That will never change.  Their yarns continue to be endlessly inspiring!  We have two new designs coming out at Stitches West!  I also work full time at Mad About Ewe Fine Yarns!

 

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So much rain lately – Millstone River is barrelling down to the Harbour.
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The ducks are happy!

I am still walking regularly and have the pictures to prove it – I must start blogging more regularly again.  This year is starting out a little chaotic, but it is looking to calm down in the near future, cross your fingers for me!

 

Happy Knitting

Lynette

Curly Lilies by the Thousands

Dotted Through the rocks and roots.

Curly Lilies are here and it is a good year for Curly Lilies!  It is a great year for Curly Lilies!  Nay, it is a Stellar year for Curly Lilies!

So many blooms!

Curly Lilies, more properly known as Fawn Lilies are blooming all over the point at Piper’s Lagoon.  I have never seen such a display at Piper’s!

It takes Curly Lilies seven years to produce a bloom and this year it looks like almost every plant has produced blooms.

They grow best on the windward side of Piper’s Lagoon Point, accessed by clambering over the great rocks that separate it from the flat Lagoon side. – leaves and roots nestling between rocks and tree roots they push up their leaves and blooms in a very short period of time, always Early Spring – usually around Easter!  Once they have finished blooming they die off quickly to rest until next year.

Grey on Grey with highlights of golden-yellow!

Every year I look for them, but my timing is not always good – this year – this year – I will remember for a long time!

The Curly Lilies weren’t alone at Piper’s Lagoon.  The skies and ocean were a concert of greys and grey blues, matching the colouring of the Great Grey Heron’s in fishing on the Lagoon Side.

There were volunteer Grape Hyacinth, spreading through the beach grasses and stunted Cherry Blossom Bushes – they cannot really be called trees as their growth has been shaped and hindered by the constant winds that pummel the beach.  The Cherry Blossoms were blooming in spite of their unprotected circumstances.

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Lollypop Vest

I love working with Koigu KPPPM.  The colours are so much fun and the knitting is never boring as you watch the colours move and play off of each other.

This week one of my recent designs for Koigu was release as part of Koigu’s 25th anniversary Yarn Packs.  They are being carried by Webs – an online Yarn Store.

The Lollypop Vest is knit with the Greystone Colourway – 12 colours that shade and move along side each other for a rich palette!

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