Warty Bobbles

Designs

  • Counting Down

    The Gold Leaf Shrug (which is the bright yellow knitting appearing in several blog posts over the past couple of months) is nearly done.  Nearly, oh so nearly!   I purchased the yarn from Butternut Woolens – gorgeous sunshine-y wool/silk… Continue reading

  • Sweater Fever

    I really want to start knitting a summer sweater.  “Really want” is not actually strong enough.  Maybe “wildly crave” or “ardently desire.”  Anyhow, I definitely have “sweater fever.”   I have been soooo good!  Sticking to a few projects, working… Continue reading

  • Design Element

    Sometimes unexpected things happen when one is knitting, right?  And if we decide we like it, we call it a "design element," right? Well, in knitting up the "Magick Hands" gloves, I found those pesky ladders forming because of the… Continue reading

  • Gloves And Gauntlets

    Sarah and I have been designing fingerless gloves (for Geoff, my magician son) and gauntlets to go with the Owl Q’mitl.    The “Owl Gauntlets” are named for the cable which looks like an owl.   “Magick Hands” has a… Continue reading

  • Design Process

    I have been in a kind of design frenzy this afternoon.  The projects at hand are a pair of fingerless gloves (the yarn is lying on my desk and I have been fighting the urge to wind it into a… Continue reading

  • Batty? Maybe!

    I have been working on The Batwing Thing – a sweater with sleeves that widen from the cuff (at the elbow) to the entire waist-shoulder width.  Like triangles.  It has been a rather intuitive design project.  I started with a… Continue reading

  • Patterns Onto Paper

    So, Sarah and I have been laboring over the phrasing, charts, directions, abbreviations, etc. on the patterns we have been developing for out layette workshop and some other up-coming classes (as well as some we want to market on Etsy… Continue reading

  • The Hat That Went To London

    In our last episode, the Wartybobbler had (almost) a week to design and knit a warm yet cool hat for her son (who is studying abroad) which was to be sent along with her daughter (who was flying to London… Continue reading

  • A Pink Layette

    Of course, when one has a brand new grand-daughter, one does not need any further excuse to knit dainty wee pink things.  It is shockingly easy to go all pink-wild in the yarn store — and I have the receipt… Continue reading

  • “Spokane Ferocity” Part I

    I have just completed my “Tunic Ferocity” (a Ferocity is a one-of-a-kind piece that Sarah and I design, either separately or together) – aka the “Spokane Ferocity” because I bought most of the yarn in a shop called Holy Threads… Continue reading