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  • A white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair knits a pink sock while snuggled up under a multicolored knit blanket made up of mitered squares. She is lounging with her feet tucked under her on a vintage sofa with faded floral upholstery.
    Knitting Design

    Answering All Your Questions About the Mitered Square Blanket of Doom

    After three years, the Mitered Square Blanket of Doom is finally finished! Over those years, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about it, and those questions tend to fall into a few categories. So in today’s blog…

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  • A light blue knit shawl in progress on metal needles sits on the cushion of a vintage sofa with faded floral upholstery. A needlepoint pillow fills the background.
    Life of a Knitter

    Pushing Back on the Knitting Police: Unsolicited Advice for the Unsolicited Advice-Givers

    Most of us have felt the urge to give unsolicited advice at some point. This is the decision tree I try to follow when that happens.

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    Digital Advent Donation Follow-Up

    The Digital Advent Calendar helps me raise funds for my local food bank. Come see how much we raised in 2025!

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  • A white woman's hands hold a set of KnitPro Karbons knitting needles while she works on knitting a pair of pink mittens.
    Knitting Tips and Tricks

    Knitting Needle Review: KnitPro Karbonz

    I’ve been experimenting with different needle types, including a set of KnitPro Karbonz, and thought it would be helpful to write up a review.

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  • A top-down photo of three hats displayed in a soft arc. All three hats are knit from the same pattern featuring columns of eyelets and seed stitch. The top hat is knit in a clay color, the middle hat is blue, and the bottom hat is pink with speckles. The hats are surrounded by a candle in a ceramic holder, some books, and a bowl full of paperwhite plants.
    Gauge · Knitting Tips and Tricks

    Why Swatching Matters: A Visual Demonstration

    Swatching is important even for small knitting projects. These hats use the same needles and same pattern, but they’re all different.

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  • A top-down photo of a pair of white handknit socks and a blue knit shawl in progress on a pair of steel needles.
    Life of a Knitter

    The Knitting Police Think You’re Doing Things Wrong

    The knitting police love correcting other knitters, but should they? Do they even know what they’re talking about?

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Meet Lauren
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I'm a former lawyer turned knitwear designer who designs soft, romantic patterns for knitters who want a brief escape from the everyday. When I'm not knitting, you can usually find me puttering about in my rose garden, hosting tea parties, or collecting sea glass at the beach.

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  • A white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair knits a pink sock while snuggled up under a multicolored knit blanket made up of mitered squares. She is lounging with her feet tucked under her on a vintage sofa with faded floral upholstery.
    Knitting Design

    Answering All Your Questions About the Mitered Square Blanket of Doom

  • A light blue knit shawl in progress on metal needles sits on the cushion of a vintage sofa with faded floral upholstery. A needlepoint pillow fills the background.
    Life of a Knitter

    Pushing Back on the Knitting Police: Unsolicited Advice for the Unsolicited Advice-Givers

  • A screenshot showing a confirmation for a donation in the amount of $210 to Food Share of Ventura County
    Uncategorized

    Digital Advent Donation Follow-Up

  • A white woman's hands hold a set of KnitPro Karbons knitting needles while she works on knitting a pair of pink mittens.
    Knitting Tips and Tricks

    Knitting Needle Review: KnitPro Karbonz

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This is something that genuinely just occurred to This is something that genuinely just occurred to me this morning, and now I’m really wondering! How do interactions between knitters and knitting pattern designers differ from interactions between two knitters who aren’t designers? Is there a meaningful difference? And if so, how does that affect the way we engage with each other on social platforms?
If you’ve been waiting patiently for some of my pa If you’ve been waiting patiently for some of my patterns to go on sale, now is your chance! My annual birthday sale is live now. Newsletter subscribers have a code in their inbox that will give you 41% off all of my self published, individually sold patterns. There’s also an automatic sale happening that will take 20% off of those same patterns.

The sale ends on Friday, so if there’s something you wanna grab, don’t snooze!
Last year I made a bunch of knitting resolutions f Last year I made a bunch of knitting resolutions for myself. This year, I didn’t make any. How about you? Are you in a growth phase or a rest phase this year?
Crocheted bobbles are my favorite embellishment fo Crocheted bobbles are my favorite embellishment for my knits. They’re so neat and tidy compared to most knit bobbles, and there’s no weird gap. I had to put a twist on things for the Berry Scone Shawl, though. Here’s how it works.
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