Sweet Heart Fair Isle Cardi Pattern

I'm so excited to announce the release of my latest pattern.  This is that perfect pattern for that special holiday project.

 

This Fair Isle style cardigan pattern features a lovely heart stitch yoke that has a refined yet rustic vibe. I created this design intending it to be used for those special occasions such as the holidays or a birthday party, but its versatility makes it great for casual layering too.

Available on Ravelry

Also Available on Etsy

This pattern is written in standard U.S. crochet terms for the advanced beginner to intermediate crocheter who is comfortable with simple one color per row color work, different combinations of standard stitches in the same row, decreasing, and working in rows below the usual working row. Pattern comes with 5 size options for all the girls in your life!

Many people helped me to make this pattern possible.  This was definitely a team effort.  For this pattern I included the following Acknowledgments section:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you so much to all the people that helped me to make this pattern so awesome!  Thanks to Cecilia De Jesus, my co-worker, who insisted that the heart row be in the yoke and not around the bottom; while it gave me headaches to get the stitch counts correct to do so, the finished result made it all worth it.  Thank you to Shibui Knits for yarn support; their Baby Alpaca DK is the most scrumptiously soft yarn ever! Thank you to Joanne Scrace for her amazingly quick technical editing skills.  Thanks also to my awesome testers Lexi Suby and Gail Dvorchak. Finally, thank you to Amanda Tipton for the beautiful photography. 

Galler Yarn Project Contest

I've entered the Fairly Isleish in a project contest at Galler Yarns. Stop by their blog and vote for your favorite project (even if it isn't mine : ) Winner gets 4 skeins of Prime Alpaca - my absolute favorite yarn of all time! (i.e., I'd be so happy to win!)

 

New Patterns!

My fingers have been crocheting furiously for the past few weeks in order to publish a couple more patterns.  The first one is a super duper easy peasy Fair Isle style cardigan that I made when I found that there are really very few options for cute boys crochet clothes.  This sweater is constructed very much like my Easy Peasy Toddler Dress but with some simple color work. 

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Can you say instant gratification? This pattern takes me two evenings to whip up.  There is only one color per row.  For realsies!  I know it looks like I changed color every stitch, but I didn't.  This is when I like to say "knitting is for suckas !!!"  (J/K) The Fairly Iselish cardigan pattern comes in sizes newborn to kids 6 and is now available in my Ravelry and Etsy shops for $4.

The next one are these adorable felted newborn bootie pattern.  I have been selling the finished booties in my Etsy shop for awhile now but didn't feel like the pattern was ready for prime time until now.  I finally figured out how to make sure that the tab is in the exact same place on both sides and thanks to my pattern testers, I finally figured out how to explain where to join the contrasting yarn in a way that you can't mess up.  So I can officially call these booties EASY, which is really what I strive for in all my patterns. 

Every time I make a pair of these I think to myself, "OMG, I can't believe I just made these!!!"  It's so amazing to me that I can take a few yards of wool yarn and in a few short hours have these heirloom quality booties!  Woah dude, trippy.  This is my go to project for every baby shower these days.  This pattern is available in my Ravelry and Etsy shops for $2.50.  What a bargain, you really can't beat that!