The secret is out!

WOW! Two blog posts in one day - somebody pass me my pills!

It was an honor to be asked by the almighty Ms Debbie Stoller for help in designing patterns to launch Stitch Nation. I've known Debbie for a while and have patterns in three of her books so I took the project willingly. The timing was awful as I was already swamped and she was very sick, (I hope you're feeling better, Deb!) But you never know when you'll be asked again to do a big project so I had to agree :o)

She sent me three boxes containing the colours for the three different yarns and a brief of what kind of look the manufacturers were after. I sketched and I swatched. I knitted and I crocheted. I sent my approved swatches, sketches and measurements to the lovely Marly, who wrote up the patterns and had a team of quick and nibble knitters churn out the samples at a furious pace!

Here are a few of my finished designs:

And a few designs that I worked on for colour combos:

I think they look really great and I'm sure the yarn will sell like hot cakes!

Well done Debbie, Marly and everyone else involved :o)