Category: CustomFit

TNNA Winter Show 2014

by Lauren

Hello all! It’s Lauren again! Amy and Jackie are at Vogue Knitting Live this weekend, so I’ll be recapping TNNA for you. We had a great time in San Diego — especially Amy and Jackie, who were coming from eight-degree weather! Truth be told, we weren’t able to spend much time…

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Incoming

by Amy

Happy New Year to you and yours! I’m really excited about 2014. 2013 was such a tumultuous year for our family, one of such massive change. Through it all, I managed to knit rather a lot of sweaters. And now after a lovely few weeks focusing on family and soaking…

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Intentions, Gratitude, Excitement

by Jackie

We’ve had a great week! Thank you to everyone for your thoughtful responses and conversations on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter. You made this year-end social media party a blast. Last week we asked you to consider your 2014 intentions for your knitting. Here’s what we came up with! Lauren…

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Holidaze

by Amy

Christmas is almost upon us, which probably means your needles are frantically flying through your last gift (or three). How are your projects coming? (Hint: If that question makes you groan, you still have plenty of time to give someone CustomFit gift certificates. Even if that someone is yourself!) Personally,…

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Design vs. Pattern

by Jackie

Hi Everyone!  Jackie here.   Before I start talking sweater, Amy had the pleasure of speaking with Kathy & Steve at WEBS on their Ready, Set, Knit! podcast this past Saturday, as well as Benjamin Levisay’s Fiber Hooligan podcast on Monday.  If you want to learn more about Amy and…

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Fashion Friday: Knitting Along, and Making Clothes

by Amy

Are you playing along with the Making Clothes CustomFit KAL? Throughout the blurred travel extravaganza that has been the last month (one more trip this weekend and then I’m done!), the Pinterest board and the Ravelry thread have kept me in happy sweater dreams. This week for Fashion Friday, I…

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Reflections

by Amy

Thanksgiving is a reflective holiday for me even in a good year, and doubly so as we’re celebrating our first holiday without my father. So like always, I’m knitting. And thinking. I’m so glad you like Morning Coffee, and I’ve been knitting like a fiend, lining up a bunch more:…

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Fashion Friday: Morning Coffee

by Amy

Thoughts are swirling around inside my head this weekend, and I’m excited to share them with you. But they’re being stubborn, and difficult to capture on the page. So this Fashion Friday, how about a sweater instead? Buy your own full, standalone Morning Coffee pattern for $7.00 by clicking here:…

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Why swatches (sometimes) lie.

by Jackie

Amy here: One of the most wonderful things about working with Jackie over this past year has been my increasing awareness of her own knitting journey. (As in, it turns out it’s not a typical experience to have your grandmothers and aunts give you proper mattress stitch instruction from an…

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Daydreams and Timelines

by Amy

Thanks to the wonder of living in the time and place that I do, I am writing this post on a plane to San Francisco. Tomorrow Jackie and I will be doing a whirlwind yarn store tour (yay, CustomFit LYS!)… …and here, on this plane, I’m daydreaming about my Knit-A-Long…

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