Spring is my favorite season of the year. Living in Florida I don't see much of winter, like the rest of the country. It's mostly summer and spring with a little bit of autumn mix in. We only get at max 3 season out of four in the state.

This morning I woke up to find that the spring Knitty issue is out! everything in this issue I must say is top notch. The pattern are sophisticated but not hard. Thing you can knit on the go, which I very much like. I Love everything in this issue, especially the beyond the basic article Jenna wrote about sizing. Its complimentary information in addition to written source (Sweater Design in Plain english). Because some of the knitting design book I notice, is a little mis place in time. Everything now can be done in excel, and record can be kept so meticulously through the program. Its a shame is you haven't felt the power of excel. Her article is not focus on excel but rather grading pattern. Which can be easy done with excel. Its just my own personal opinion that pencil and paper are not so essentials to sizing to me as my spread sheet.

This week I'm finishing up some a pattern that I will be offering for free! It was made from yet again, left over yarn from a knitting project. I don't like to WASTE anything. Everything must be use. The expected date for the release of this pattern is March 21, so mark your calender :) Its a little fun project, so stay tune.

Today I give another template! The template is base on a size 2 dress form, which translate to a 32 size bust. This is only the front view of the dress form. I hope to draw up multiple view of the dress form. The next one I will work on is a side and corner view. I'm not sure if I should draw the back view or not, because its pretty similar to the front.

Yesterday I called up a friend up and we went and had a photo shoot of an item I'd design to submit to Knitty for the summer issue. It was a lot of fun! The weather was great and amazingly warm. The previouse day it was supper cold, in the 50's or something during the day and in the 30's during the night.

This is my first time submitting to Knitty, and I'm very excited just to finish the pattern and turn it in. I sent in a lot of picture, and I had forgotten to resize a few of them to the 1.5MB requested. I hope this doesn't hurt me in any way. I'm posting a picture from the photo shoot, to share with all of you. Its not a close up shot or anything, so i feel comfortable posting this. It'll give you a better idea of the place my friend and I went to take shoot. If you live in Gainesville you probably can guess it was Lake Alice, and you are right!


Click to download Dress Form.pdf

I've been on Ravelry for a some time now, but I've never sent in the request to get my profile and my design connected and today I have!

I'm test knitting a shawl right now. This is my first time Knitting shawls, I've crochet one before. I'm working on the border of the shawl right now, instead of finish witting my pattern! Urgh the yarn I'm knitting with is so addicting to work with i keep coming back and knitting the shawl. The yarn is the Unique sheep Tinsel toes in Aqua sky. The color is very hard to photograph because of the yarn luster. This picture is the closet looking to the yarn in person. In person the yarn is a tad darker, the shine makes the yarn look lighter in this picture.


Do you like the smell of yarn? Is it weird to like the smell of yarn. I must be really dorky to smell my yarn...lol