FOs
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2-0-1-4
Tomorrow is my birthday. I’ve always liked how neatly the years of my life line up with the years on the calendar; there’s something very tidy about being the same age for an entire calendar year. I also haven’t had to throw myself a birthday party for years – I get to celebrate with the Continue reading
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a quadrillion stitches
I remember moments from before I was a knitwear designer, particularly when I was in college (and probably putting off writing a paper), when I would be knitting something and think to myself, Wouldn’t it be awesome if I could just knit all the time? Wouldn’t it be great if that was my job? I don’t think I’m Continue reading
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on knitting garments
Look familiar? As Kate has been wrapping up the work on her Yokes book, we’ve been emailing back and forth a fair bit. I realized in all this discussion of yoked sweaters that it had been ages since I’d worn my Owls (Kate’s first yoked design), and so I decided it was time to pull it out of the closet and Continue reading
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the evolution of a sweater
I didn’t do a ton of knitting while I was in Norway, but a few days after I arrived I did cast on for a Svalbard, the ingenius cardigan pattern by Bristol Ivy from Wool People vol. 6. Norway felt like the right place to do it, because Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago, and I had decided to knit it Continue reading
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school, snow, and a vasa update (sort of)
When I last posted two and a half weeks ago I had every intention of returning to more regular blog updates. While that obviously didn’t happen, I have been keeping busy. Not much of it directly pertains to Paper Tiger as a business, but I thought I might share some of it here all the same (Paper Continue reading
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an FO!
May has been a quiet month for the blog, as I haven’t had much personal work to share. FOs have been thin on the ground lately, too, as I have about seven or more knitting projects going on at once (I really should finish something) and most everything else I’m working on is behind-the-scenes stuff, like Continue reading
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finished faire du vélo
Back in November I wrote that I’d finished my Faire du Vélo bike sweater, which I started last June (I blogged about it here and here). I hadn’t gotten any finished photos yet because it really won’t be warm enough to wear it for a few more months, as I designed it with spring, summer, and autumn mornings Continue reading
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サマーソニック
Back in March I blogged about a sweater I was knitting by a Japanese designer named Michiyo. It went on the back burner for a little bit while I worked on the pattern and knit the samples for Amiina as well as my upcoming pattern (which should be ready in a week or two), but as you Continue reading
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