What Size is your Addiction?

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Here's the new Jane's Addiction sample, complete with buttons! Thank you, Gentle Readers, for your input and advice. It always helps to look at things with fresh eyes.

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I've included my mom's genius modification, continuing the raglan cables down the sides. 

I'm working on the pattern for you, which always brings me to the same question: What/how many sizes do I create? When sizing a pattern, each individual size has its own measurements, stitch counts and ideosyncracies. So the more sizes offered, the more time and work is involved in the pattern, of course. I need to find the sweet spot between offering enough sizes to make the most knitters happy and working myself to bits unnecessarily.

In order to provide the most value for you, Gentle Readers, I've devised a little survey. If you'd like to knit your own Jane's Addiction, won't you take a minute to let me know how you'd like it?

CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE JANE'S ADDICTION SIZING SURVEY

To the many of you who have reached out to let me know you want this pattern, thank you so much for the great feedback, and for your patience as I put it together for you!

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The New York Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck has it all: Sheep, yarn, workshops, Sheep, gourmet food, sweater-watching, leaf-peeping, Sheep, and now, ME!

I'll be teaching two workshops this fall: "Down the Slipper-y Slope", where I share my journey to slipper happiness, and "Kilt by Association", a madcap romp through the kilt hose.

Registration opens June 1st, so hurry! CLICK HERE to sign up.

Rhinebeck this year coincides with the launch of my new book:

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It's available for pre-order now, where all fine knitting books are sold. Copies will be in stores on October 12. And you thought all this time I was only knitting sweaters! There are 20 delicious patterns to knit, in addition to everything you need to design your own mittens. I can't wait to share it with you.

Button Auditions

Campbell fell off his friend's hoverboard last Friday night and has a concussion. He's confined to home with no screens, exercise or deep thoughts until further medical evaluation. Bizarrely, he declined to help me with the following, claiming a lack of interest. Obviously he has sustained some minor brain damage:

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Here's the newly finished Jane's Addiction, drying on the blocking board. It's a great time to haul out the button collection and spend some quality time trying out candidates! What laundry/dishes/children-recuperating-from-concussions? My poor sweater is naked!

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Contestant group 1: Antique black pressed glass with gold carnival glaze

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Really beautiful buttons, but are they too small for the proportions of the sweater?

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Contestant group 2: Antique red pressed glass with blue carnival glaze

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Contestant group 3: Retro-looking rhinestones my sister picked out

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Contestant group 4: Vaguely Nordic pewter. Nice size, a bit more subtle.

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These are completely gorgeous. They actually read blue and gold against red.

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The proportion is good, and they're pretty sassy. Jane would have loved these.

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Contestant group 5: Tyrolean-ish pewter hearts. Sweet. Too sweet?

Okay, Gentle readers: Will you please help me out? Post a comment with a vote for your favorite! Unless you also have a concussion, in which case you are excused.