Discover the Best Colors for Your Skin Tone

We often purchase yarn because it’s beautiful, without considering whether it will flatter our features. Here are three tips for working with the yarn you have and complementing your skin tone, so you look healthy and refreshed.

Consider Slip Stitch for Color -- It's fun, It's Easy, and It's a Quick Way to De-stash!

We've all done it.  We've all fallen in love.  With yarn.  With a colorful, seductive hand-painted yarn and before we can say baa-ram-ewe, it's in our stash.  Bring these yarns into the light with slip stitch patterns.

A Tale of Two Buggiflooer Beanies

This is the tale of two beanies, one for my sister Paula, and one for me.  For Christmas two years ago Santa gave her a new blue (ish) coat and gave me a red (ish) one.  Neither of us bothered to get new hats, because we both knew someday I would...

View of Canyonlands in Utah

Value is more important than color. Controversial? Maybe, but contrast in value is what makes your colorwork sing. So let's focus on a simple way to find that contrast.

Inspired by Yarn - Part 2

Last week I left off with possible yarn combinations for my latest design - a poncho mini (or poncho maxi).   My first swatch, carrying HH merino lace in hush along with HH skinny singles in budgie was not what I had in mind -- the pink glow of the lace yarn overwhelmed...

Inspired by Yarn

I love playing with color and texture, and when we were doing the first video clips for Sweet Meadow Knits (the one on the home page) the idea for a light summer poncho popped into my head.  This would be a simple project, where the yarn says it all. 

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