About: Amy

One of the greatest pleasures of being a designer is seeing the lovely creations that begin with my pattern, and are executed by lovely knitters with great skill. There are few feelings that can top the moment of looking on my ravelry activity page and seeing something like this: (Images copyright Dawn Hughes and used  Continue Reading

The silver lining to a grueling, 9-hours-of-sleep-in-two-days kind of business trip is the ability to take Friday off from my day job, and spend a morning puttering around and making my house my own again. I’ve really been enjoying the day, and am now super-ready for an afternoon with the boys and a dear dear  Continue Reading

I’m headed out shortly for my first day-job business trip in awhile, and have spent the week frantically finishing up deadline knitting so that I can take something new on the plane. I think it’ll work, don’t you? (Obligatory update: Just 3 spots left, now, in the make. wear. love. retreat. If you’re interested, let  Continue Reading

(I’m super-excited about the response to make. wear. love. so far. We have only around 10 spots left in the retreat as of this evening, so if you’d like in on this wonderful weekend please let me know soon! I’m really looking forward to summer and wouldn’t wish it away, of course… but now I’m  Continue Reading

Before I go too far in my sweater design process, I spend time on Ravelry, trying to make sure that the sweater I’m thinking about doesn’t already exist, and that the name I have chosen isn’t already well-represented in Ravelry’s database. I don’t know how it slipped my mind to do the same thing for  Continue Reading