New England Knits

Looking forward to July 1st when Cecily and Melissa's book is released! I feel so fortunate they included one of my designs in their book—a pair of wooly, slip-stitch mittens.
The inspiration for these hand warmers came directly from a pair I once bought at a thrift store, but have sadly lost some time ago. Those mittens had crazy-hunter orange as the accent color, so I was happy to modernize the color palette with a hard-to-resist gray heather and those lovely, light blues. I also added some stripes to the cuff (I couldn't resist) and modified the stitch pattern (I can't remember the exact slip stitch pattern in the thrifted mitts, but I know it looks/feels different).

Yesterday, Kristen drove up to visit with Cecily, Pam and myself. We took a stroll around MackWorth Island and ate yummy Mexican food. I love spending time with magnificent ladies and showing off this great little city of Portland.

chickadee

Here's a shot of my mitts in (possibly my favorite Q yarn?) Chickadee.

Pam and I are working hard on getting the patterns proofed. We're calling and emailing each other a hundred times a day so the instructions are consistent and clear. Once this is done, the website info will all be in the hands of our programmers. Thank goodness. It won't be long!



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a bit of Quince

Here's a sneak peek from our first collection.
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Hannah opened a sweet little online shop where she is selling kits of her patterns. They come in these darling little bags that she made. I have one skein of malabrigo lace in black...if I can get my hands on another, I'd love to knit her new Whispy card. Perfect to wear over a sun dress on a breezy summer evening.

esopus magazine

Last Summer/Fall, Jared Flood rounded up a group up designers, including myself, to collaborate on creating a garment inspired by the Exquisite Corpse process. I don't think any of us had ever embarked on a project quite like this, and I can't speak for everyone, but it sure felt freeing to work as we wished, with no pattern to be written in the end. My two sections to knit were the Right Back and one of the Left Sleeve. It was a really fun challenge—even to figure out what was what when I first took the partially knit piece out of the box! The combination of textures that came together are fascinating and unique.
The garment has recently been publish in Esopus Magazine. You can read more on Jared's blog.
Top photo: by Jared Flood
Garment Model: the lovely Cookie A

view of my bulletin board.