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Beach Nights Pullover – The Perfect Summer Layer for Your Wardrobe
This page contains some affiliate links, which give me a little bit of money if you buy product from that vendor (at no additional cost to you). There are many ways people get inspired to create a new design. Usually I have ideas that aren’t necessarily inspired by one particular thing. The Beach Nights Pullover though was inspired very specifically by Season 3 Episode 25 of Friends – “The One at the Beach”. When Rachel and Ross are talking outside the beach house that night Rachel is wearing this super baggy, loose-knit, off-white sweater. I sketched out what I thought I had seen, thinking it would be a great summer…
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Pattern Testing the Side Split Pullover
As you now know, Chantal of Knitatude, and a large number of pattern testers have been keeping a secret for MONTHS. And it. has. been. hard! It was made slightly easier due to the fact that the camera on my phone really disliked taking pictures of the richly saturated colour I picked to test the Side Split Pullover (affiliate link). I chose this sweater to apply to test knit because it is a style that I could totally see myself wearing ALL the time. Anything that encourages wear with leggings has me sold. And as my sister and I traipsed around Nose Hill to take pictures it was so incredibly…
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Free Pattern: Cactus Washcloth
Long ago, when I was thinking about coming up with a few patterns, I was pretty sure the first pattern or 2 I released would feature cacti. Obviously I got distracted by another somewhat prickly thing – the pineapple. But now is the time for these cacti to start making their way into the world. Like the pineapples the pattern of the cactus is achieved through a change in texture. I chose seed stitch to mimic the prickles sticking out from a cactus. The centre of the cactus is centred on the washcloth, but the cactus itself is not symmetrical, as I don’t think there are real cacti out there…
