Announcement: The Studio is OPEN !!!

The renovations are about 98.9999999% complete and although it's a little disorienting getting settled into the new space and working out where things are and how things work... I have to say, gosh it's good to be back !! :)

Klee Update: the spring batch is coming together and if you're on the Notify List, expect an email in the next couple of weeks.

FOs and projects: Well ... I've been busy working mostly on things I'm dying to but really can't talk about for a while yet. Lots of Top Secret Projects. (sorry!) But apart from all the TSPs, I did manage to finish a quick spring/summer FO. A little spring cleaning yielded a cluster of three skeins of Colinette Tagliatelli in Cinnamon that had vanished long ago through the grill of my brain, aka The Sieve. :)



I think I'd put it aside because the first and last time I knit with it I made a children's sweater, and unfortunately it wasn't quite as robust a fabric as I had hoped. After a few months (or possibly weeks) of wear and plenty of tear, the sweater ended up looking like swiss cheese. So, okay, definitely not for your child's play dates. But for a chic summer top for women, it's just about perfect.

So with only two skeins, 15mm needles, and a project time of just a couple of days from cast on to seaming up, I was able to throw on this little cropped number ...

(very little, very cropped)







For anyone interested, the pattern is called Sandpiper and appears on the cover of Colinette's Tagliatelle Merino Tape book. BUT a word to the wary: the way the sweater appears on the cover is not how it will look in real life unless you block the **** out of it and/or add more rows to the length and sleeves than in the pattern, which, having a third skein, I could have done, but didn't...



really because I think as a cropped textured sweater, it's more fashion forward !!