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A Treasure Trove
Every so often I’ll see a tip on social media that is worth the hours I’ve wasted to scrolling. Today I learned that if you google “the magazine rack” it will take you to a section of the Internet Archive (or Wayback machine) that has tons of old magazines available for viewing. Including those pertaining to machine knitting! Here is…
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Elf Sweaters – Free Pattern!
I thought for sure I had posted about this pattern before, but it looks like I may not have. Even if I have, it’s been years since I first put it up, and I’ve given the document a fresh branding makeover for 2025 so I’ll post it again. If you are someone who likes to dress up your visiting house…
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Making Motivation
This post is going to be a bit of a departure, but I keep thinking about this subject so I’m going to try to put some coherent thoughts down about it. People can be weird when you tell them you have “domestic” hobbies, particularly those that veer into the tradwife, women’s traditional work sphere. A few years ago (pre-covid) typically…
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Udemy Pattern Drafting Class Review & Drafting Discussion
Like most of you probably do, I get a lot of ads on social media for Udemy, Domestika, Craftsy, etc. I finally got an offer I couldn’t refuse, an introductory pattern drafting class for $17 or so. So I signed up, only to discover it was only an hour of content, and largely an ad for the instructor’s YouTube channel…
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Making Track Pants from Existing Track Pants (aka “Pervert Egg” Pants)
If you’ve ever had a perfect pair of track pants, you know why you never want to let them go. They fit comfortably in both waist and length. They aren’t tight in the wrong places. They make your butt look nice – as nice as it can look in track pants anyway. Also as an aside some people might call…
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Lutterloh Knitting
It’s been some time since I sewed the dress in my last post, and in the interim I’ve made another Lutterloh pattern. I had said I wanted to draw out the tank top pattern on my knitleader and knit it on the Brother 940, and I did just that. I went with this simple number: I drew out the pattern…
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More Lutterloh Patterns
I thought before I dive into Lutterloh pants making, I should try something a little simpler. Enter this dress: It’s a basic little number with a back zipper and a couple of darts. I have a similar RTW dress so I can compare construction techniques. A better place to start for a pattern system with no instructions, I think. And…
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Sewing a Lutterloh Pattern
As most buyers/collectors of pre-loved knitting or sewing machines know, often when you get a machine you are given a collection of assorted odds and ends along with it. Pieces for other machines, random thread, bobbins, old elastic – anything that may have been associated with the machine in question. With one of my acquisitions, I can’t remember which at…
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Tubular Fair Isle/Pattern Knitting on the Superba
A few times someone has brought up the possibility of machines that can knit tubular fair isle, but I actually don’t know of any machine that does it automatically. Maybe a passap? I don’t know. But after my three-colour jacquard investigations using a “blank” pass, I had wondered if it would be possible to do the same type of thing…
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Pattern Drafting (for Sewing) with Seamly2D
Why hello! I think the title for today says it all – I want to talk about drafting your own sewing patterns. If, like me, you got your start in sewing garments from commercial, pre-printed patterns from the “Big Three” pattern companies, or the printable PDF patterns available online, it has maybe never crossed your mind to draft your own…
