Esprit d’Evelyn combines the rhythm of stockinette and lace while challenging you to step up to the plate and elevate your knitting skills. An asymmetrical, triangular shawl, it's designed for three sizes so you can make a size that works for you. You’ll enjoy this journey exploring and celebrating your creativity while creating a shawl you’ll love to wear.

While Julianna doesn't have a fiber business per se, her make-a-longs and Discord group are an important part of our fiber community. She's built an inclusive and supportive community of makers, designers, dyers, and others in the fiber world. In addition to the Summer Tee MAL, she also hosts the WIP Down MAL.

The very first cast-on I learned was the long-tail cast-on. I later learned more basic cast-ons such as the backwards loop cast-on and the knitted cast-on. While these can be faster and easier to do, I kept going back to the long-tail cast-on. I found comfort in this cast-on, and it's a good, general-purpose cast-on. It's flexible, it provides a good foundation for my knits, and it's taught me life lessons and shaped how I approach knitting and designing.

A provisional cast-on is a temporary cast-on that can be undone later to leave live stitches that you can work with. You can cast on provisionally with any method using scrap yarn, but I love a crochet method. It’s straightforward to work and unzips easily to release the live stitches.

This technical editing path seemed custom-made for me as I've always been a stickler for consistency, clarity, grammar, spelling, punctuation - all without trying. Editing continues to hone these skills, and with me as your editor, you can be confident that your patterns will be polished and professional.

When the novelty yarn craze hit in 2005/2006 and fuzzy scarves were all the rage, I walked into a store and said, "I'm going to buy two balls of fuzzy yarn, make my fuzzy scarf, and THAT WILL BE IT." I didn't need more things to do and more things to stash.

Well. You probably have a good idea how that turned out.