Over the last year or two I sent a few projects in to different books but that is usually where my involvement ends.  I don’t see photos and/or edits until the actual book is sent to me.  This does have the added excitement of seeing them almost for the first time when the book is released :-)

The first book I want to tell you about is Stitching In the Stacks that is published with Cooperative Press with Sarah Barbour who is the author.  It’s now up for pre-order in digital and hard copy format.  There is a really beautiful collection of pattern and I’m very proud to be a part of it.

My two contributions are a pencil case:

Plus a hooded vest.  Before I sent it off I took a few photos of this on my oldest son and I must also put a blog post up with a few of those photos!

The second book that I have a contribution in is Free Spirit Shawls.   My copy of the book arrived last week and it’s a really interesting book.  As well as 20 shawl patterns there’s lots of good info in this about different ways to wear shawls as well as different shawl construction types.  I’ve taken a few photos of my shawl Euclid from the book, it’s st st and garter and all the shaping is done using short rows.  (Easy to tell it’s mine right!)

I’ve just returned from Denver after my second Craftsy recording. It’s so much fun heading over there for a few days, even if I do have killer jetlag afterwards :-) The lovely Amber and Jaime from Fancy Tiger Crafts took me out for dinner on Sunday night. This was very much appreciated as I was starting to get jittery before my first day of filming and it was really great to have a few hours talking with them.  So glad that they’ll be at TNNA in June, hopefully we’ll find some time for and ice-cream chat :-)

It’s much easier doing something like filming second time round.  You know what to expect and where you’ll run into problems.  I’m really looking forward to sharing this class with you, it’s very different from the last time and was an interesting topic to put together in a class format.  Here are a few photos from the class recording but I bet you won’t be able to guess the class subject from them!