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Third annual summer Adventure Knit-a-long!

It’s coming! This year’s leethal Adventure Knit-a-long starts in July! It’s released for pre-order now, on my site and on ravelry, and you can start chatting about adventure plans in the leethal rav forum. If you sign up, you’ll automatically receive each pattern section on the release dates, and the complete collection ebook when it’sContinue reading “Third annual summer Adventure Knit-a-long!”

What’s new this spring

Hi readers! I am excited to tell you that I have a new page on my website: print patterns! An assortment of my most popular patterns (kind of a random selection actually, based on things like formatting, not just on popularity) are now available in high-quality printed format; you can see them all on thatContinue reading “What’s new this spring”

New Full Body Trio pattern: Lopes!

Lopes, the second garment pattern in my Full Body Trio mini-collection (after Tionne), has been released! (On ravelry here!) If you follow me on social media at all, you saw plenty of peeks a couple months back when I was making the first sample – I was posting all kinds of close-ups on instagram, revealingContinue reading “New Full Body Trio pattern: Lopes!”

Book review: Knit Wear Love by Amy Herzog

I am not much of a sweater knitter – I’ve only knit a few sweaters, in my 10+ years of knitting – but I am slowly trying to change that, trying to learn more about garment shaping and design, and making myself some awesome wardrobe additions, with the limited for-fun knitting time that I have here andContinue reading “Book review: Knit Wear Love by Amy Herzog”

Glad it’s April 1st, no foolin’

Happy April! I have a few things to blog about to start off the month… firstly real quick, I just want to let EU knitters know that you can now, once again, purchase my patterns through ravelry (or my website), including collections/ebooks, yay! Next, I made a word list for a photo-a-day challenge for this month!Continue reading “Glad it’s April 1st, no foolin’”

Interviews, studio photos, and nerding out with sales analysis…

Want to see me being awkward on camera? Well, now you can! I was video-interviewed for Kimberly Golynskiy’s (aka 80 Skeins‘) travel-knitting blog, Around the World in 80 Skeins. She visited me at my home here in Portland, and then I took her out on the town to a food cart dinner and my neighborhood knitContinue reading “Interviews, studio photos, and nerding out with sales analysis…”

Final Betiko collection pattern: Zulo!

The Betiko collection is now complete! Here is Zulo: Zulo (on ravelry here) is a lace patterned version of the Betiko shawl construction, completing the Betiko collection (on ravelry here), along with Biratu the cabled version, and Lerro the colorwork version. It’s a leethal kind of lace shawl pattern, so it’s not lace weight! TheContinue reading “Final Betiko collection pattern: Zulo!”

Epic week of celebration (and sales)!!

First things first, my knittas, there is a lot going on this week and TWO different days are calling for sales! My birthday is on Wednesday (Feb 11th), so I’ll have my traditional birthday sale, same as the last few years – but of course the percentage goes up each year! Enter coupon code lees33Continue reading “Epic week of celebration (and sales)!!”

Third Dark Trio pattern: Andrew!

The leethal Dark Trio is now complete! (ravelry link) Andrew is a pair of fingerless mitts with elements of good and/or evil, your choice: I made an animated gif to show Andrew in action! They have illusion knit pentagrams and/or stars (your choice) on each hand… …and eyes on the palms. From the pattern: TheContinue reading “Third Dark Trio pattern: Andrew!”

Adventure Knitting 2: The Mysterious Trunk!

You may or may not know about Adventure Knitting 2: The Mysterious Trunk (here on ravelry) from last year’s Adventure Knit-a-long (the second annual Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-inspired leethal KAL); the full collection is now available digitally as an ebook, and as a print book, which you can buy directly here, or yarn shops can order it wholesale from DeepContinue reading “Adventure Knitting 2: The Mysterious Trunk!”