Plucky Dreams

It is always a pleasure to knit with The Plucky Knitter yarn!

Primo Sport is soft and bouncy and beautifully dyed as always :)

I've made 4 of these bonnets now, but this one is my favourite. You can find the pattern on ravelry here. It is part of the collection Jelly Baby Volume 1: Hats.

(c) Dani Sunshine

(c) Dani Sunshine

(c) Dani Sunshine

Can you believe I only have 4 WIPs now? I feel a bout of Startitis coming on!

Snowdrops

On Friday I was very happy to finally release Snowdrops, one of my favourite patterns from I Will Absolutely Wear It.

(c) Dani Sunshine

(c) Dani Sunshine

I'm very grateful to the wonderful, patient test knitters. You can check out their gorgeous projects on ravelry - thanks guys!

This sweater is perfect for Summer. Lazy days knitting stockinette stitch followed by some neat tricks and details, makes this a fun knit for confident and adventurous knitters. My daughter loves wearing it too, which is always bonus! 

Working through the backlog of unpublished designs is freeing up lots of ideas. I feel an impending bout of startitis!

Design Progress: Baby Hat Photos

It's really hard to take pictures of Jelly these days that aren't fuzzy! She is On The Move.

I've made the littlest of my loves quite a few hats. Her head seems to be growing really fast.

This little hat's working title is 'Pooch'. I think the ear flaps are cute but need to make a second version to get them just right. Maybe they could be a little bigger? I'll keep you posted.

For now, here are some shots of Jelly sporting her new hat, pre-blocking:

(c) Dani Sunshine

(c) Dani Sunshine

Design Progress: Snowdrops Schematic

Today I managed to make a lot of progress on my Snowdrops sweater pattern. This design was conceived more than two years ago as 'Buttercup'  and is to be included in I Will Absolutely Wear It.

Original Snowdrops Design (Buttercup)

I've had some real mental blocks with this pattern, hence it being waaaaay overdue, but I seem to have finally turned a corner with it!

I'm really enjoying using Powerpoint to make schematics these days, since Paul gave me a quick tutorial when I was failing to draw one straight into a Word doc in February. Note: Living with Someone Who Can Use A Computer only helps if you listen and let them help you :D

Snowdrops Schematic

New Blog!

As I begin to resurface from the BABY ZONE, it felt right to put aside the old Lioness Arts blog and start afresh.

This sparkly new blog will evolve as I do, as a knitter and a designer.

My aim for now is to regularly & succinctly record and share my design process and progress. I hope you'll join me :)

You can still find me in all the same usual places, Ravelry, Facebook, and Twitter

Happy knitting!