I’ve been making a lot of Action charts lately, and as I’ve been doing it I’ve made some notes on things to mention about the look of Action charts. A Look at Action Charts If you want to know why I do this, please read this. If this method of charting doesn’t work for you,…
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Jumping Back In By Refreshing Ashland!
Refreshing Ashland has taken much longer than I anticipated. This is the story of everything for me (taking longer), but I want to take a moment to you what refreshing Ashland means for you! I think I’ve been making my patterns even-more fab-u-lous! The actual release date is September 15, 2018, but until then, the…
Refreshing News! New Patterns on the Horizon
Refreshing News from Jill Wolcott Knits! After a hiatus of a couple of months, I’m doing a blog, and releasing new patterns! Plus, I’m teaching a class on Yarnpreneur.com. If you’ve been following me, you know that I overthink almost everything. I decided to rework my pattern layout about two years ago, and we are…
Cable Techniques Updated
I have updated one—sorry, just one—of my cable techniques pages. However, it is massive and now the others should be easy to accomplish. The new, updated technique is 1/2 Cable and 1/2 Crossed Stitches. There are some drawings to help you follow along. Why Update Cable Techniques? Well, for one I’ve got a pattern coming out…
Muscle Memory, Batching, Processes, & Focus
Did you know that batching and working through processes allow you to develop muscle memory around tasks or other things? It is why it is often suggested that you do like things at the same time. I’ve been putting together my Color of the Day posts for June. Yep, I do them all at once!…
Outreach, Reaching Out, & Building Community
Outreach, reaching out, and building community are hard things. It is easy to want to do them, but more difficult to know what to do, and even harder to implement. Outreach to Jill Wolcott Knits® I’m often surprised when I do some outreach at the response I get—and also that I don’t get. You just…
Kitchen Scale as a Knitting Tool: Weigh the Options
Using a kitchen scale can save you from “do I have enough yarn” syndrome. I have two scales, both digital, one about 10 years sold, and another that I bought this year. The older one is about to be retired because it has become fairly unreliable and so I find myself doing all my weighing…
Shawl Geometry, Books 1, 2, & 3, Revised
If you own the original Shawl Geometry series (or any of them) published by Holly Chayes in 2013, you will find this to be quite an expansion. The entire original series was 95 pages. The new version is 92, 159, and 162 pages for a total of 413 pages! There is a bit of repetition…
My First Sewing Project (in 20 years)
I’ve done some other sewing in the past 12 months, but this is my first sewing project for me, so really it is the one that counts! I pulled out my sewing machine in my determination to create a pair of jeans that would fit Mitch. That was a project that I did on Sundays…
Garter Stitch Flat, or Stockinette ITR
Garter stitch is the first stitch we learn–just knit, knit, knit. As a result we often can hardly wait to do something else. You may be like me in that you came back to garter stitch after a few years, and kind of got excited by it, but were a little embarrassed because it is…
Yarn and Stitch Pattern, and You
We had to get to yarn and stitch pattern eventually! This pairing is what we want to solve most, but is actually a fairly difficult topic to address. I’ve been looking at the make up of yarn to better identify why some yarns work and some don’t. I’ve introduced fiber content, fiber processing, ply, twist,…
Yarn and Color: Alchemy or Science?
I love yarn and color so this is a topic I’m excited to try to tackle. I’ve given you information on fiber content, ply, twist, treatment of yarn and fiber, so now color. The alchemy of yarn and color is what gets us excited about hand dyed yarn and every other yarn. A funny story…
