Don’t know if you have heard about Yarnbox yet, but it is a wonderful new monthly subscription club that delivers carefully curated, beautiful, and unique notions, yarns, and patterns to your door! I am very excited to be the featured knitwear designer for the 1st shipment. The May shipments have gone out and here are pictures of what the lucky subscribers received.

                                                                The Total Package!

      The yarn, Zen Garden in a special color way created just for yarnbox, beautiful!!!

My Mary pattern, one of my favorites and a sample of soak, which I love! If you want more information about yarnbox you can check out their website yarnbox.com or the yarnbox group on Raverly.

I am publishing the oh so cute Little Boy Blue Vest today!!

                  It is a handsome cable vest just perfect for a handsome baby boy!

The vest is constructed from the top down in one piece with short-row shoulder  shaping. The trim and bottom band can be worked in a contrast color as shown or worked in the same color as the body.

The blue and brown colors reminded me of a robin’s egg, hence the name.

The summer issue of Interweave knits is out! I have a pattern in it, Sundry Tank!

This tank is worked sideways with eyelet stripes and a crochet edge worked in a contrast color. There are short rows worked on the bottom half to add fullness that skims around the hips.

The yarn used for this tank is Shibui Linen and Staccato. I love Shibui yarns. Their linen works up wonderfully and has a lovely drape. Their staccato is soft and has a very nice sheen and drape. If you haven’t tried this yarn I highly recommend it!

There are lots of great knits in this issue. A few of my other favorites are the Regatta Tee, Midsummer Aran and Wendy’s Pullover.

Spring has sprung in east Tennessee! The dogwoods are blooming and everything is beautiful and fresh.

In keeping with the spring cleaning rituals, I decide it was time to clean out my swatch basket. I am always making swatches to experiment with pattern stitches and bring all the ideas in my head to life. They end up in my swatch basket along with bits of yarn.

Apparently my yarn likes to follow the principle of entropy! It amazes me how quickly it all gets tangled up.

Much better! Now I can get to a swatch without pulling out a mass of tangled yarn with it.

Up coming pattern releases: The vest for baby boy is done and the pattern is at the editors. And I have a lovely tank coming out soon in the summer issue of Interweave Knits!