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Fiber Tree Designs: What I Did on My Summer Vacation
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Friday, August 14, 2009. What I Did on My Summer Vacation. For the past three months, the Fiber Tree blog has been sadly neglected. Perhaps my training in history has taught me at some deep level to write about things that have already happened rather than about events as they occur. Perhaps some things just happen too quickly to write about at the time. Over the summer, I traveled to four different states, sent in pattern and article submissions to KnittySpin, Interweave Knits,. And Knitter's Magazine,.
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Fiber Tree Designs: A Fiber Tree Sprouts
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Friday, April 17, 2009. A Fiber Tree Sprouts. A New Career for a New Decade. For my thirtieth birthday, I decided to give myself a career change. I have loved fiber arts since I was a child and I have been actively designing my own knitting patterns for several years. This spring I decided to take a leap of faith, leave my 8-5 job, move with my husband to a new state, and try to make my living as a full-time fiber artist. Enter Fiber Tree Designs. Keep a look out for what's next. April 17, 2009 at 6:25 PM.
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Fiber Tree Designs: Frogs and Frogging
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Friday, May 8, 2009. I mark the coming of spring in the upper Midwest with great joy. Our winters are long and cold and bleak. They have their own beauty, of course, but by April, spring is welcome. Some mark the beginning of spring by the first crocuses or the song of the first red wing black bird. For me, spring comes when the frogs in the marshes start singing. The shawl pattern uses one skein of Cascade Heritage Sock Yarn and one skein of Noro Kureyon in a simple zig-zag lace pattern and will soon be...
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Fiber Tree Designs: April 2009
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Friday, April 24, 2009. Shetland Lace and Persian Manuscripts. In her excellent book, Creating Original Hand-Knitted Lace. Margaret Stove writes that new patterns can be developed by tweaking currently available lace patterns into the shapes that we desire. As I discovered recently, sometimes even minor modifications can make all the difference. The Adventures of Hamza. I sketched some of my favorite motifs to see how they behaved as stand-alone patterns. I picked two variations that I felt were most suc...
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Fiber Tree Designs: In Praise of Test Knitters
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Friday, August 21, 2009. In Praise of Test Knitters. Every business has people who work behind the scenes, largely invisible but vital. In the world of knitting patterns, test knitters and tech editors are just such people. They take my designs, knit them, proof read them, and clean them up so that when the pattern gets to your hands it is easy to understand and free (I hope) from mistakes. James looked up and stared right at me across the classroom. "Ensuing? It has been unseasonably cool in Iowa this s...
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Fiber Tree Designs: KnittySpin and Idylium Patterns
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Friday, September 18, 2009. KnittySpin and Idylium Patterns. This week my first article. Were published on KnittySpin. Read all about ancient ways to process a Shetland Fleece and then make mittens with yarn spun from your fiber. I have also opened my Etsy store. My first pattern for Idylium is available for purchase there. I hope you'll stop by and check it out. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Fiber artist Lisa Jacobs knits, spins, crochets, and designs nature-inspired patterns in America's Heartland.
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Fiber Tree Designs: September 2009
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Friday, September 18, 2009. KnittySpin and Idylium Patterns. This week my first article. Were published on KnittySpin. Read all about ancient ways to process a Shetland Fleece and then make mittens with yarn spun from your fiber. I have also opened my Etsy store. My first pattern for Idylium is available for purchase there. I hope you'll stop by and check it out. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Fiber artist Lisa Jacobs knits, spins, crochets, and designs nature-inspired patterns in America's Heartland.
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Fiber Tree Designs: Shetland Lace and Persian Manuscripts
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Friday, April 24, 2009. Shetland Lace and Persian Manuscripts. In her excellent book, Creating Original Hand-Knitted Lace. Margaret Stove writes that new patterns can be developed by tweaking currently available lace patterns into the shapes that we desire. As I discovered recently, sometimes even minor modifications can make all the difference. The Adventures of Hamza. I sketched some of my favorite motifs to see how they behaved as stand-alone patterns. I picked two variations that I felt were most suc...
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Fiber Tree Designs: August 2009
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Friday, August 21, 2009. In Praise of Test Knitters. Every business has people who work behind the scenes, largely invisible but vital. In the world of knitting patterns, test knitters and tech editors are just such people. They take my designs, knit them, proof read them, and clean them up so that when the pattern gets to your hands it is easy to understand and free (I hope) from mistakes. James looked up and stared right at me across the classroom. "Ensuing? It has been unseasonably cool in Iowa this s...
