boyfriend I love the comfort of men’s sweaters, and I confess that I have absconded with several of my husband’s over the years. Finally I decided it was time to design my own take on a menswear-styled cardigan. Boyfriend is the result. Roomy without being oversized, Boyfriend is a basic, practical sweater that can go […]
GEORGIA Somewhere between a summer jacket and cozy cardigan, Georgia is for a woman on the go. Knit in soft organic cotton, with handy pockets for your keys and phone, Georgia is a summer wardrobe staple that can go wherever you go. Whether you throw it on over your bathing suit or drape it over […]
Sometimes I have a person in mind while I design, and so it was with this boyfriend-style cardigan. I was thinking of my nephew Max’s Argentinian girlfriend Clara, who has an intriguing sense of style. I imagined her wearing this sweater in a modern house high in the Andes, gazing out floor-to-ceiling windows to a […]
The last few weeks I have been busy finishing up a new knit — lobster… just a very little sneak peek of what it looked like while it was still on the needles… And I have been writing up some older designs that I just never wrote up… like these… Overview Overview levitra shop buy […]
A quick-to-knit capelet uses #8 needles and just two skeins of worsted-weight yarn. (a)symmetry This quick-knitting capelet defies all the rules. Seam angles increase at different rates and fall at asymmetric intervals. Eyelets appear random to the eye. The result is a textured knit that is fun to work on, with a beautiful drape and […]
Knitting in Maine this summer, I had the wonderful pleasure of two days with Barbara Walker’s Treasury of Knitting Patterns (I admit I have not one, but two of the original copies published by Scribners in 1968!) knitting a long, crazy scarf of different knitting patterns. Out of these nirvana days, came five textured sweater […]
This summer so many of my friends were having babies that I designed a half dozen baby sweaters! This simple, classic — VERSACIKNITS classic baby — may be my favorite! It is simple to knit out of a soft DK weight yarn. There is nothing quite as special as giving a new baby one of […]
I can hardly contain myself, I am so excited! This sweater has been a long time coming. Not quite like birthing one of my children (OK, it is nothing like the *%!$@ of birthing a child), but it did feel like it took forever to get this one built and out the door. It all […]