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”
Category Archives: self-publishing
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!”
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!”
New pattern set: Twist on a Classic mitts + What a Twist hat!
New bulky, QUICK patterns, just in time for last-minute holiday knitting! This is technically one new pattern, plus one pattern re-release, but they are available together as a new matching set. Twist on a Classic (ravelry link) is a new pattern for fingerless mitts – they are fun and speedy to make, they are cozy inContinue reading “New pattern set: Twist on a Classic mitts + What a Twist hat!”
Pattern updates and other news!
Newsy stuff time! (No, not Newsies stuff, although I am all for seizing the day and carrying banners and whatnot.) First off, Portlanders, my Coloring Book sample knits are currently on display at Twisted! You can check it out through Sunday, and I will be present for meet+greeting, question answering, etc on Sunday during theContinue reading “Pattern updates and other news!”
Year coming to end announcements and future pattern release stuff…
Wow this season has gone by fast, hasn’t it? It’s been below freezing here in Portland for the last several days, so it’s really feeling like autumn times are over and we are full on into winter, regardless of what the calendar might say. I am hard at work, dividing my time between multiple designContinue reading “Year coming to end announcements and future pattern release stuff…”
Thanksgiving sale weekend: Print Pattern Packages (with digital downloads) on sale!
Remember when I used to sell full-color printed booklets of my patterns through MagCloud (and also self-distributed to yarn shops)? Maybe you don’t, but yeah, I did used to do that… it was a lot of work and not many people were interested, so I stopped, and now I only sell a couple of collectionsContinue reading “Thanksgiving sale weekend: Print Pattern Packages (with digital downloads) on sale!”
Color by Number: a pattern set within Coloring Book
The final pattern in my Coloring Book collection is actually a mini-collection itself! Color by Number (on ravelry) is an extremely customizable pattern, with seven sample items to show how varied you can get with the pattern, and then patterns for each of those seven samples so you can copy them exactly if you want to.Continue reading “Color by Number: a pattern set within Coloring Book”
Coloring Book collection!
Coloring Book is out! It’s a collection of colorful designs in Malabrigo yarns, for the Malabrigo Freelance Patterns Project, all using stripes and slipped stitches – no stranded knitting or intarsia – and tricks to keep your yarns neat on the back side, and weave in ends as you knit to minimize your finishing! (onContinue reading “Coloring Book collection!”
Lee Does Stuff 