Vogue Knitting Live is around the corner, and you could WIN a class package in the Vogue Knitting Live Chicago Raffle! Join me in Chicago! I’m giving away one Second City Sampler Package featuring one class, one lecture and a 3-day Marketplace ticket, valued at $110. This prize is good for one year past issue. […]
I’m getting ready for Costa Maya, my next Video KAL / Sweater class (filming like mad), and I’m crisscrossing the country, so I’m bound to be someplace near you! Leave me a comment if I’ll be seeing you. Don’t forget, if you know a shop or guild that would like me to come visit. Let them […]
Welcome to Costa Maya Knit-Along (KAL)! It’s time for the Spring Knit-Along!!! I am so excited to start another KAL on my Ravelry group. You asked for it, so you got it . . . A CARDIGAN!!! There will be tons of teaching and fun, prizes and a great garment! During the KAL period you get the […]
What do 18 hrs of teaching plus, 219 students, 1 lecture, 174 attendees and a fab marketplace add up to . . . Patty’s exhausting, energizing, hilarious weekend at VK LIVE NYC!!
Welcome to 2018!! We made it through the holidays, all of our gift projects are (hopefully) off our needles and in the hands of their recipients, and we’re settling in to what looks to be a rough winter ahead. Don’t you deserve a little reward? Why not spend a little time on some “me knitting?” […]
It was a busy fall / holiday season . . . not all finished, but hundreds of knitters picked up their pointy sticks a few months ago to begin another KAL / Sweater class, Rising Spades. In November we got to see what the knitters were up to. The KAL winners have been chosen and […]
We’ve all been there. The holiday party/family get-together/office potluck is rapidly approaching, and you realize that you’re short a gift for someone. The WORST!! Well don’t lose hope, I’ve got some ideas for gifts that you can turn out in record time but will still give your gift recipient a heartfelt and handmade treasure! 7 […]
It’s that time of year again, where we’re knitting furiously to finish those holiday gifts and cramming in as much festive fun as we can! But we all know the danger of knit gift fatigue. Instead of giving another hat or shawl (and depriving your buddies from […]
For those of you that have taken classes with me, you know all about “Patty’s Big Box of Knitting Fails.” I seem to have an example of something tragic I’ve done in my knitting for nearly everything I’m teaching. So, I decided to launch a blog series to dig into my knitting boo boos. Today’s […]
Knitter’s Thanksgiving Several years ago I wrote about 5 steps to a perfect Thanksgiving weekend. I felt it was time for an update. This is the time of year we all gather with our loved ones to give thanks for all we have. As knitter’s, we have some special needs when it comes to creating the […]