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Next up in my shawl journey: this cheerful fellow, which I’ve dubbed my #bitsandbobblesshawl. This one is special because, simple though it is, I made it up! . I’d never done bobbles before, and I took inspiration from the bobble panel in @shara_made’s #stratashawl, as well as the increase structure (right side and wrong side) from @camillavaddk’s #flickeringshawl. My recipe is below—but #knitstagram, please educate me if, given the above, posting the recipe isn’t kosher! (I offered generalized suggestions in the case of the increase and bobble portions so as not to reproduce those patterns—but I absolutely do not want to infringe if this isn’t appropriate.) And might you hashtag #bitsandbobblesshawl if you make your own?➿ . Start shawl using your preferred method (so as not to post the setup from the #flickeringshawl here). Thereafter, use your preferred increase method on outer edges and both sides of center column (RS, +4) and outer edges only (WS, +2). . Start with as much stockinette as you want; I did about 6 inches. . Knit 5 garter ridges (10 rows.) . Knit 4 rows stockinette and then begin your staggered bobble section using preferred bobble method. (I knit bobbles every 8 stitches.) Knit 4 rows stockinette, then stagger your second row of bobbles. (It helps to count your stitches both times; due to the increase structure, I didn’t have the exact same number of stitches at each edge before starting the bobbles—I just focused on the second row aligning correctly over the first. Someone who is better at math than I am may be able to do a better job!) . Knit 5 garter ridges (10 rows). . Knit your preferred # inches stockinette. . Do one more row of bobbles. . Finish with a garter edge. (I would have done a matching 5 ridges if I’d have enough yarn.) . Bind-off with your preferred stretchy method (I used the decrease BO.) . Voila! . Lastly, this is my second time working with @clintonhillcashmere, and I have been living in this thing since I finished it. It’s knit in their heavier, Aran-weight #bespokecashmere and it is so hearty and delicious!
Today @lucyrtan and I decided to create our own writing retreat. We drove forty minutes to @thesowsear, my favorite local yarn store and coffee shop, and set up in one of their back rooms. The day passed in a blur of soup and coffee and reading along with the slow, grinding work of writing. Sometimes the writing comes easily, but these days, as I recover from a year that has been at once pure magic and uniquely challenging, it’s more often like this: after seven hours, I had only three paragraphs. . So here’s what the #writinglife really looks like, dirty napkin and weird purple back massager and all. I left our retreat with the hope that tomorrow will be easier, that I’ll be flying like I do on my best days—and with the knowledge that even if it isn’t, I’ll still come out with a few more paragraphs than I have today. That, after all, is how books get made.
#writingspace happy place: Hiding out from the cold in my favorite coffee shop while finalizing tomorrow’s Finding an Agent workshop with @702wi_madison. Eight-year-old me could only have dreamed that this would be my job. 💛
One of the most exciting parts of publishing #theimmortalists has been seeing the book find a home internationally. Most foreign publishers chose to use the gorgeous American cover by @putnambooks, but here are some of the ones who diverged from it. Which is your favorite? 📚💛 . In order: Ukrainian edition from @vivat_publishing, Romanian edition from @storia.books, French edition from @editionsmilady, Italian edition from @rizzolilibri, Russian edition from @phantompress, and UK hardcover and paperback from @tinder_press—with every ounce of credit to my spectacular foreign rights agent, Tracy Fisher, at @wmebooks.