Upcoming Event: indie.knits at Knit Fit 2016!

Hi friends! I mentioned it briefly a while back, but I just wanted to make a post again officially -

indie.knits will be at this year's Knit Fit market, coming right up this weekend! I'll have printed patterns and samples galore, many of which feature yarn companies who will also be at the event - including Blissful Knits, Spincycle Yarns, Three Fates Yarn, YOTH Yarns, and Hazel Knits - so you can go squish their beautiful wares in person, and maybe get into a little bit of yarn trouble while you're at it ;)

I'll also have some special goodies ready just in time for the event, available on Ravelry so everybody can join in the fun!

Want to drop by?

Knit Fit! market hours are:

Saturday, November 12, 8:30 am-6 pm

Sunday, November 13, 10 am-4 pm

at the Ballard Community Center

6020 28th Ave. NW in Seattle

The market is free to visit, and chock full of amazing indie dyers and other awesome yarn and design-minded folks. I'd love to see you there!

Back to Reality

 

Oomph - it's been a while, friends! Last I saw you, I was in the throes of pattern releases and preparations for vending my first show, both of which had been eating my brain cells and all of my free time for the last three months. And after all of that hard work, a whole weekend vending at Knit Fit was the perfect way to finish it all off! Of course I forgot to bring my camera, but I managed to get a couple of dorky pictures with my booth setup and vendor badge.

I've waxed poetic about the wonderfulness of this show before, and this year was even more magical (if that's possible??) Although I've worked shows as an employee before, this was my first show as a vendor for indie.knits, and I felt so welcomed and supported by every person I met: the entire Knit Fit crew, the other vendors, the attendees. I had a great time chatting with tons of knitters, and the vendor selection was top-notch, and I learned so, so much from the whole experience. A big thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hello, and a monumental thank you to Sasa and the other behind-the-scenes folks who made this great event happen.

  

And because of course I did, I woke up the day after Knit Fit with a desperately ill rattie and a cold. Wah-wahhhhhh. After taking Mr. Pooper to the vet and getting him on a nebulizer treatment (he's doing much better!), I spent the rest of last week flopped on the couch, watching Jane the Virgin and attempting to send work emails in between Theraflu-induced naps. The second I started to recover, I started to tend to my sadly neglected house by doing boring adult things like dishes and vacuuming and taking out the trash. (Of course, it's not until you have at terrible cold, a dishwasher full of dirty spoons, and overflowing recycling bin full of soup cans that you realize how frequent and necessary such tasks truly are.)

After I finished all of that stuff, I turned my attention to the tub full of handwashing and the heaps of paper and knitting needles and clothes and half-finished projects all over my studio. Yikes! So yesterday I completely rearranged and cleaned my studio, which, unsurprisingly, made me feel loads better. The blocking queue is back up and running - including my finished Fireweed for the Fireweed With Me KAL! Yayyy! - and all the flat spaces are now ready for me to explode ideas and sketches and swatches all over them.

Because what are clean spaces for, except to facilitate creative clutter and coffee-drinking? Nothing, that's what.

Happy Wednesday, friends!

<3

Cory

Announcement: F / W 2015 Collection, and Knit Fit!

Hi friends! I've been keeping this news under my hat for a while, so I'm pretty stoked to announce my two huge projects from the last few months:

indie.knits - F / W 2015

I'm about to release my first collection for indie.knits, a Fall/Winter collection which includes the Sweet Root cardigan, as well as three new accessory designs. (I'll be introducing each piece individually in the next week - stay tuned!)

The collection is wool-focused, worked in rich, autumnal colors, and heavily inspired by the natural world. Each piece is designed to be both wearable and fun to knit, and it's my hope that you'll love each of them as much as I loved creating them!

Each piece in the collection will be available as an individual Ravelry download beginning on Friday, November 13th, and I'll be sure to share when they go live.

But wait, there's more! Seattle folks will have early access to the collection, in a special sneak peek hosted at The Fiber Gallery on Thursday, November 12th, from 6-8 pm. I'd love to see you there!

And now for the second piece of news:

indie.knits at Knit Fit!

A while back, my friend Ann kindly offered to share her booth with me at Knit Fit, our fabulous local indie knitting festival, and of course I jumped at the chance!

I'll be there with the collection, as well as my other patterns - many of which are newly updated and shiny - and plenty of samples for you to squish. I'll be chilling with Ann in her Vintage Buttons booth, and you can bet that I'll be wearing something bright and funky!

I'm so excited for the opportunity to meet and share my work with the Seattle community of fiber folks. Knit Fit is a wonderful, lovingly curated event, with fun classes and a fabulous market, and I do hope you'll stop by!

The happiest of Wednesdays to you, friends!
<3
Cory