The last 16 months have been lessons in endurance and change. No one really likes change, it throws us off balance and gives us a chance to re-examine all our habits.
New
There is a new interest in this business and it is reflected in the name changes you see now or later. After years of playing around with patterns, paint and textiles. I have found the one thing that lights up my work day. How this translates out into daily life we are not quite sure. Walking one step forward at a time and changing some habits requires me to stretch and change.
It has been difficult and at the same time very familiar. Tinkering around with various art forms all my life, add in sewing, color and an Interior design degree and this just works extremely well.
It is called surface pattern design or even textile design, but more about that later.
Crochet
The fact that the latest pattern that I have written had the yarn discontinued before the pattern was released, has kept me from releasing it to you. I went ahead and wrote it anyway. You can crochet this baby blanket out of any yarn you choose. Ta Da!! Naomi’s blanket is now available on Etsy and soon to be available here in the shop.
Here it is in all it’s glory with Noami cuddled up inside the blanket. You can crochet this blanket in any yarn you choose and make it truly personalized. It is beautiful and fun, while being completely washable.
Beautiful isn’t she and the blanket is too! Originally crocheted in Lionbrand Crayola yarn cakes it will be so easy to crochet in any yarn from your favorite yarn store. Providing they have a decent range of colors. The complete color list is available in the pattern.
6 months have sped by with not much crocheting happening here at the studio. I think I needed a vacation. Finally, the yarn has come back out and a couple of WIPs have been finished and just wait on writing to make it to pattern mode. One is just a show and tell and hopefully it will be finished sooner rather than later.
Life
Life has been busy here. The summer garden has had an over abundance of rain which is great for the cabbages and kale but not so great for the tomatoes. They have an overabundance of leaves and not many flowers yet. It has been too cool. Thankfully this year there are no home improvement projects on the horizon. So, we can just enjoy the grandkids, the summer and the garden. Things are still changing and I am still enduring the changes. Hopefully, a bit more gracefully than I did last year. May your summer be full of fun and family.
Talk to you later,
Karen
P.S. Naomi’s blanket is an intermediate level pattern and I am not offering tech support at all. It can take literally hours of email and writing to help you and my time is becoming more and more precious. As I am a one person business, I have had to discontinue tech support on the patterns.
P.S.S I have some de-stash yarn in the Etsy shop. I have an overabundance in the studio and it’s keeping me overwhelmed. My de-stash is your new project. There is quite a bit of Stylecraft Special DK in the Etsy shop and many of the colors are also used in the patterns. Check back often as I dig deep into my yarn stash.