News about OFS
My first paper of the semester is due on Tuesday, and due to a series of social plans for things I actually want to do, tonight is my only chance to put any real time into writing it. Any hope I might have of an academic career is seriously called into question by the fact … More Warm Hands, Cold Heart
You might think I was done introducing new things this week, but you would be quite wrong. Mum has two more new colors we’d like to share with you. Blue Spruce seems an appropriate color as it gets colder. The deciduous sisters are bursting into their glorious color, but soon they will be bare, and … More A Chill in the Air
It’s happened! October is finally here, and with it all the exciting things that fall entails. We’ve been working hard this week to bring some exciting projects to a close, and as so often happens in life, it made sense to have them all due today. Don’t ask me why I do this to myself. … More Advent Hat KAL Sign-ups Are Open!
The first sample of Christmas mittens is finished, and I thought you might like a look at the glory contained therein. So here’s a sneak preview of “The Holly and the Ivy,” due out 12/25. The Ivy’s on the top; the Holly’s on the bottom. Cute, eh? I’m tickled pink with how they turned out. … More Sneak Peek: Christmas Mittens
I had a little challenge two weeks ago – a commission to make an “interesting” baby hat for a little girl. I couldn’t make any of the texture ideas I had work out with the three colors my client (customer? collaborator? patron? victim?) chose, so I made a mostly plain hat with some textured bands … More Rosette Recipe
It only took: A month of designing A month of knitting Two months of test knitting and A month of copy editing and endless tweaking To produce the Stole Sweater pattern, which is finally up for sale. It’s probably the most complicated and involved garment pattern I’ve produced – not because it’s that difficult to … More Stole Sweater Succeed!
You know how sometimes you find that perfect pair of jeans, or that perfect corderoy jacket, or that sublime top that is just perfectly you, that you wear all the time until it has holes in indecent places or until it is literally falling apart at the seams? I knit a tank top like that … More The Story of a Cheap Knitter and a New Pattern
Announcement, Announcement, Announcement! I’ve hinted, I’ve planned, I’ve made promises, and now it’s time to make it official. Starting in Advent 2011 is the first-ever Osborn Fiber Studio pattern series, and it’s based on the Liturgical Year. What’s the Liturgical Year? It’s the traditional Christian calendar. You’ve heard of the Chinese New Year, Rosh Hashanah, … More Liturgical Year Pattern Series Announced, & FAQ
Happy almost-Pentecost! This Sunday we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the newborn church, fifty days after the Resurrection. The Easter season is coming to a close, and we enter into the second half of the liturgical calendar, in which we focus on growth and walking in the way of the cross in … More Spirited
Finally! I know it has been an interminably long wait, but at long last the OFS yarn store is back online. The yarn has been re-acquired, inventoried, re-inventoried, and the pages have been updated, spruced up, and double checked. Almost nothing sold out at Sheep & Wool, so you have a full selection at your … More New yarn, Sale yarn, Custom yarn
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