Secret Knitting
It can get tough to find content to share when everything I’m knitting is a secret. I don’t mean a secret from the recipient, although that happens sometimes too. I mean that often when I’m designing something it’s for something really far in the future, or for a publication that doesn’t want photos to come out in advance.
That’s been happening an awful lot lately, which means there are very few photos of WIPs that I can actually share with you all. There has been knitting happening around here, lots of it, but much of that won’t be publicly visible for months and months.
It can be so hard to keep quiet about designs I’m excited about! And I am quite excited about the things I’ve been working on. Some of them are yarns from new dyers I’m really excited about working with, and some of them are shapes I’m really excited about exploring, and many of them are both.
So for a lot of the knitting I’m doing, I’ll have to content myself with sharing little tiny snippets for the time being. For example, here are the colors of a collaboration I’m doing with Yoriko Oki in three colors of her new DK8 superwash in Mermaid Tail, Midnight Peacock, and Silver Moon, from a photo way back when I was choosing colors.
And yesterday I got a nice little present in the mail. It was a design I spent the first half of December knitting away on, back from its photo shoot. The Sensation cowl will make its debut in next week’s issue of Cast On magazine. I don’t want to spoil the surprise by showing it in its entirety, but here I am wearing it earlier today.
I think this piece is going to get a lot of use. It’s long enough in front to give almost as much warmth as a shawl, but since it goes around the neck it’s easy to throw on and not worry about styling. And I think the colors are a great contrast against my sweatshirt-of-the-day. (The colors, by the way, are Morehouse Farm Merino’s 3 Strand Worsted in Snapdragon and Soft Pink.)
Meanwhile, I’m chugging away on a scarf that’ll be part of a holiday collection making its debut in September. It seems par for the course in the life of a knitting designer to always be thinking several seasons ahead. When all of you start casting on your lightweight summer tops, I’ll be deep in thinking about winter sweaters, and vice versa.
