Welcome to the tenth pattern in the Migraineur collection, Fragilehead. The book is LIVE and here is the ordering info:Buy Migraineur softcover book on Amazon.ca (also available on Amazon.com and other marketplaces)If you want a complimentary ebook with your purchase of a physical book, forward your receipt to osbornfiber@gmail.com with your ravelry name. Offer good untill December 31. Please allow 24 hours for … More Chasing Meltwater

Welp, I’ve pressed the “Publish” button on Migraineur. Now we’ll just wait for the machinery of self-publishing to churn… Appropriately, we are now at the halfway point, day 6, of the pattern reveal party! I have a thing for clamshells. I’m attracted to clamshell designs on wallpaper, in stationary, or even in quilting. Today I’ll … More Art Deco at Small Scale

I have some exciting news! Today one of my original patterns comes out in the prestigious online knitting magazine, Knitty.com. The Winter 2024 issue is out today, and my pattern (featuring the beautiful Akumalik Netser) is the cover image. The pattern is called Cause and Effect, and I’m here to tell you a little more … More New Pattern! Cause and Effect

We’ve been in Northern Ireland for nearly a week now, and I’m just now getting to the point where my thoughts about our ten days in Scotland are sufficiently assembled for me to be able to share them. First off, let me say that although you will see some beautiful sunny pictures in this post … More June 2024 Round-Up – Part 2 – Scotland

EDIT: I have enough testers now! Thank you to everyone who offered! Hello friends. My Super Secret Project is coming to a turning point, and I’m ready to ask pattern testers to help me out. I have ten patterns that need testing, all small. There are two SETS of accessories – meaning I’m looking for … More Call for Testers! Accessory Time

For two years in a row now, I have come to write a reflection piece at the end of the year, and when looking at my intentions post from the beginning of the year, it seems like I was writing from another country. I wrote a learning plan for 2023, and wow, you guys. I … More 2023 by January’s Standards

Honesty: I have had a cold for the last week and a half. I’ve gotten to that point where I feel like I’m going to be sick forever. I do not like it, Sam I Am. But I will try to write about this month, because it’s had a lot of good bits. October has … More October 2023 Round-Up: The Weather Changes

Part 1: DOS TestingPart 2: Carded Approximations of Dye FormulasPart 3: Dye FormulasPart 4: Monochrome colourwaysPart 5: Analogous colourwaysPart 6: Warms, Cools, & Narrower Analogous colourwaysPart 7: Complements & Split ComplementsAddendum: Knitted samples I’ll close out this review of my dyeing experiments with these triads. At this point, I knew I wasn’t going to run … More Dye School Part 8: Triads

Hang on to your skeins, folks. If you thought the last few posts were long, this one is a doozie! So if you’d like to pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in for some deep colour analysis, here we go. Part 1: DOS TestingPart 2: Carded Approximations of Dye FormulasPart 3: Dye FormulasPart … More Dye School Part 7: Complements and Split Complements