Kate's Seed and Braided Cable Cowl

The Braided Cable Cowl pattern was a great success in 2012.  So, I developed a similar pattern for 2013, but this one incorporates a band of beloved seed stitch.  The cowl sold before it had ever made it to my Etsy shop, but I'll be selling the pattern.  Be sure to use the coupon code HELLO for a discount.

The original Kate's Braided Cable Cowl is posted here.

On my needles: Saxon Braided Pillow

You know how I am obsessed with hand-dyed yarns.

Well, at the Vogue Knitting convention in NYC, I fell in love with Tess' Designer Yarns from Maine.  Tess' booth was enormous - as big as Lion Brands'!  The yarns were not organized by weight or type, but rather by color.  I can't imagine a more beautiful rainbow.  I chose the Bella yarn, a 2-ply superwash merino, silk, alpaca blend, and on that January day, this soft gray skein called out to me.

So for the last two months, I have been noting ideas for my single skein of Bella.  I finally decided on a pillow with an intricate cable motif.  I just love this yarn and want to see it every day on a chair in my home - and not buried in a basket of sample projects.

Stay tuned!

Oh, here are some photos I snapped at Tess' booth.

Saxon Braided Pillow featured by Martha Stewart's American Made Story here on INSTAGRAM.