My name is Brandy Fortune, and I design knit-wear for kids. I love Crème Brulée, Sci-Fi, 70 degree weather and reading a good book in bed. I spend my time knitting, sewing, taking pictures, co-editing the web-zine Petite Purls and raising my two daughters. This website chronicals my adventures in both parenthood and design.
It took far longer then I ever imagined to publish what in retrospect is not a very complex pattern. It is knit with more negative ease then traditional knit sweaters, and so that took some working on. This pattern actually cost me the most and took me the longest to complete of any pattern I’ve done to date, there was a lot of work involved. I could not be more pleased though, with the end result.
Good news, my new Milk pattern will be available tonight or tomorrow, I just have to put it into my pretty PDF formating and it’s ready to go. This has been my most expensive and time consuming pattern to date, I hope everyone enjoys knitting it! I’ll be working on getting it up tonight after the kids are in bed.
This morning I finally finished a pair of pants I started a while back, when I made that sewing tutorial. They came out so punk rock cute, I did not hem the legs yet though because I probably need to make them longer, need to find some pink to match. They came out pretty cute! That has got to be the worlds easiest way to make pants, and pants sew up so fast too! After 3 elastic waist bands I feel like a pro.
I talled all the entries, assigned all the tweets and facebook fans, a number (starting with 60 after the last blog post comment), and the numbers from the random generator website thing were #12 and #18!! Which corresponds to the 12th and 18th comment to the contest, oddly enough!
I am so excited to introduce my latest design (albeit a very simple one) for a new collection over at Petite Purls. It’s the “Back to Basics Winter Hat“. The Back to Basics collection will grow over time, and is not a part of our normal seasonal issues, instead they will be released in between issues, as a continual part of the website. The idea here is that at some time or another we all just need the basics. Easy for beginners to start off on, or a quick knit for those with more experience. Even better, you have a blank pallet to play with, easily adding stripes, decorative stitches or color work. I am thrilled to be the first designer in this collection.
In short, it will be a classic line of simple designs, each ranging in sizes from baby to youth. Yes, that’s right. From baby to youth! One of the other main needs we wanted to fill was range of sizes (you asked for it!), each item in the collection will come in a full range of sizes from newborn (when applicable) to an older child (when applicable). I am so excited about this collection, you will also note this hat is knit in my new favorite yarn, Spud & Chloe Sweater (55% wool/45% organic cotton). I love organic cotton!
The following is being documents for both my readers enjoyment, as well as embarrassing evidence for when she is 16 and comes home with a boyfriend I don’t like. Hah!
