My increasingly graying hair and I have a new pattern.
I feel like I design fairly regularly, especially now that I publish most seasons with Twist, and I'm always trying to appeal to a wide variety of people, but Tangerine Trees is really a design for me. I love wide ballet style necks, body darts, buttons and cuffs. I don't normally wear prints or complicated textured patterns. I love all types of designs, but this is a design that looks like something I'd have in my personal wardrobe. The garment is worked from the hem-up, with no seams except the underarm bind offs, which could be joined with a 3-needle bind off if you are really averse to grafting. The yoke features raglan shaping as well as an additional series of neck decreases which can easily be added to, to make the neck narrower. Short rows at each shoulder help to hide your underpinnings.
I used fabric covered buttons on the cuffs and hem which gave me an excuse to dive through my stash of quilting remnants. If you like the photos, I have more details here and on the ravelry page, and the latter offer tons more photos. A big thank you to Laura Chau for tech editing my pattern and of course to my pups for photo-bombing me while I was trying to take serious pattern photos.
August 2012 Archives
The new edition of Twist Collective is live. It has been for a few days. I should know, I was there when it happened.
To me, this edition is all about timeless, wearable items, and I'm at a loss to pick a favorite.
My contribution is Treillage.
It features lots of dense cables and fabric covered buttons made with leftover quilting scraps.
Thea doesn't care for it.
See the magazine page here
The details page is here
And the ravelry page is here
And don't forget to check out the whole edition, including all the great articles.
This guy
I wish this were a picture of us actually at the beach, celebrating his birthday, but we are "grown ups" with "responsibilities" and a "mortgage to pay." "Lame."
Anyway, that's a picture from a huge batch I haven't gotten around to sorting and posting, and is hopefully foreshadowing of events to come soon. In the mean time, I'll be lavishing an extra serving of belly rubs and blueberries on this little beast.
