This week my co-host was KT Vaughan of Katherine Vaughan Designs/Knit With KT.
Housekeeping: help us adopt a Momma Llama!, visit the DaniDo Crafty Designs group on Ravelry and check out the contest I’m running in conjunction with Jennifer of Desert Garden Farm, and lastly the Phat Fiber box drops this weekend! Check out the site for the exact dates/times.
KT has been published in Knotions, Yarn Forward, Black Purl Magazine, Magknits (defunct) and Knit Circus magazines. She has patterns in Knitting in the Sun and Luxury One Skein Wonder books and a variety of patterns self published on her own site and through her Ravelry, Patternfish and Etsy shops.
In case you want to check out my teensy tiny design catalog you can do that here or here.
It’s Adopt a Designer Month! Though I have a hard time saying her name out loud Jesh is really a fabulous designer.
Other designers we mentioned: Norah Gaughn, Marnie MacLean, Wooly Wormhead and Cat Bordhi.
Resources for indie designers: Free Pattern Tester group, Budding Designers group, Self Publishing Knitters group, Indie Pattern Designers Resource Group (a great thread about tech editors on this group.)
Have Second Sock Syndrome? Check out the Second Sock Swap!
Want to wish KT a happy birthday? Why don’t you pick up one of her patterns on March 20th and send her a little note telling her happy birthday!
I didn’t mention a discussion question this episode, but I have one for you anyways: what subset of knitter (if you knit) would you describe yourself as? Are you a pattern follower or a pattern destroyer? Are you a yarn lover first and a pattern lover second or the other way around? Are you the type of knitter who wants a pattern to look exactly like the pattern sample? Process vs. product knitter?
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Normally, I can tell pretty quickly in a pattern if I’m going to follow it or destroy it. If I feel like I’d have to rewrite it to suit me, I usually don’t end up using that pattern at all. My mostly finished 28Thirty is probably the most I’ve destroyed a pay pattern. Most of it was subconsciously as I changed it to suit my tastes, even though it’s technically “wrong”. Oh well!
I am not a fancy pants yarn lover. I knit with Caron Simply Soft as easily as Cascade 220 or handdyed yarn from you or others. If it will suit the project, my tastes, the color I want, and price, I’ll knit with just about anything.
And I’m totally a product knitter. I just want a sweater. I don’t care if it’s lace or a cool stitch pattern. I want an easy to follow pattern (doesn’t have to be “simple” though), I want yarn I can work with, and I want a design I can wear. It’s probably why I don’t mind knitting six inches of 2×2 ribbing on a sweater lol. Can’t knit a shawl because I don’t need a shawl. Probably won’t knit socks because I rarely wear them. You get the picture.
Wow, so that was a wordier comment than I intended.