ina / beret

Here is a beret version of Ina in chickadee/storm. I was so busy designing the website and thinking about the photography for the photo shoot, I had very little time to knit the first version. So, I opted to make Ina a cap. Sadly, due to the time crunch, it was not a very pleasurable knitting experience. I was using bamboo needles, which I usually love, but for this yarn/project, I was having a terrible time sliding the stitches along. It seemed to take me twice as long, tick-tock, when I needed it to take me half the time.
SO, as soon as the shoot was over, I decided to make Ina again. This time with happier results. I splurged and bought some addi's—the stitches moved freely. My hands were at ease, there was no lingering deadline ahead of me. It was fun this time! phew.
(Camera shy am I, so lucky for me Allen volunteered to be help me out!)

alive

Quince yarns—we're up! Come visit us...

I bought these animal plant pots at a flea market in Boothbay last weekend. So small--I'll have to find some mini succulents to plant inside.

Quince is close to launching! Pam and I both got goosebumps today when looking at a nearly finished website. It's crazy. Months of work, months of dreaming, and learning (like, say, how to design a website) are now neatly organized on the pages of the site. I'm so proud of what we've made!

Tomorrow we have some organizing to do at the mill and there are still a few lingering bits on my our to-do list. But soon. So soon.

photo: puffin / nasturtium

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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