Author: Annie

Picking a yarn is a dicey enterprise. Sometimes it’s relatively straightforward; a simple, textured stitch pattern looks good in just about any yarn, you choose the fiber you want for the drape and long-term care and wear that you’d like, and there you are. But with a project like History on Two Needles, well, it’s…

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I’ve spent the past few days doing some exciting swatching, trying to refine a colorwork pattern and creating a schematic for a short jacket for History on Two Needles. It started when I saw this magnificent jacket in this painting. I found the colorwork very inspiring, and wondered what yarn would work well to achieve…

I’ve written about this scenario in the past, and I’m afraid I’m going to bore some of you with the same sad tale again. This is a long one, with no pictures… If there’s going to be a pool of high quality, established hand knit and crochet designers, there has to be an understanding among…

I’ve been swatching quite a bit for History on Two Needles, usually just working up a Stockinette Stitch swatch so I can ‘get to know’ the yarn and decide how I’d like to use it. But the moment I saw Cha Cha from Trendsetter at TNNA, I knew exactly what piece I wanted to use…

Max was SO happy yesterday – for the second year in a row, we’ve had amazing weather for his birthday party (it was sunny and in the 40’s yesterday, with as much snow as anyone could want for sledding!) A gang of 13 boys + 1 girl went sliding down the hill (and yes, I…

As promised, I’m keeping the History on Two Needles work as open and transparent as I can. If it’s good enough for Barack … I just posted my “Wish List” of artworks. I’m talking to a freelance permissions group to see if they feel we can work together to track down the rights to publish…

Yesterday I got to do something I seldom get to do – I got to take a class! A knitting class! From Susanna Hanson! It was an exceptional day, so much fun, and a delight for me to be part of a class – almost like a little vacation. In addition to meeting Susanna, who’d…

One of the delights of TNNA is seeing yarns with which I’m not currently familiar. As a hand knit designer, I have several yarn companies that I work with over and over again and some that I just do a project with once or twice every few years. The reasons for this are many and…