Sasha Evans... One Great Knitter!

The Blog Week question for today is: Who is a great knitter or crocheter that you admire?



Here is my knit answer: This young woman is a designer of knit patterns. A few years after learning to knit, she produced her first for-sale pattern, Bluebonnets, which was lace! But wait, it wasn’t just lace, it was an image of a bluebonnet flower (a lupine) that she worked out and incorporated into a knitted headband. Then on to stranded-color stitch creation for the edges of Ceres, which I mentioned in yesterday’s post.

Holy cow, what’s next?? She’s not sayin’, but she’s got it in the works. You can keep tabs by visiting her blog, Sasha’s Blue Carpet, which is a fun-to-read romp through crafting, cooking, feminism, and other interesting stuff.

Yup, that’s my girl!

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My Favorite Crocheter... Absinthia!

The Blog Week question for today is: Who is a great knitter or crocheter that you admire?


Absinthia's Dog
Here is my crochet answer: No, not the dog... I love Absinthia!! She is a brilliant Swedish crocheter, who is innovative, clever, and just a lot of fun. She has been a pattern tester for me on Witch Warmers in Crochet, and she suggested a huge improvement in the way the stripes join up. I had tried and tried to make those stripes jogless, and the combination of stitches just wasn’t allowing it for me. Absinthia to the rescue! She suggested a fix that was perfect... I would never have thought of it on my own. Check out her work on Ravelry.

The photo above shows Absinthia’s child-sized version of the Fortune-Teller Turban in Crochet, modeled by her little dog. How cute is that?? She made the turban for her kindergartener-niece, who wears it when she takes on the character of Scheherazade, spinning tales for her friends.

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