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A Little Flirty & a Little Sultry

There's something about 2020. Everything seems to take longer. Everything seems to be just a bit more difficult. Back at STITCHES Salt Lake in October 2019, I realized I needed more samples in the market. I love versa lace. I need more people to see it. I noticed both Alasdair Post-Quinn and Xandy Peters have samples with several regular STITCHES vendors. Leading Men Fiber Arts kindly agreed to yarn support. I had already made Wonderful Whirled . And I already had an idea for another jacket, this time in the more complicated feather and fan pattern. I figured I had a good foundation ready to go. And yet, everything seemed to take longer. I had worked out the proper increase scheme for a center-out circle in versa lace. That math didn't work in this stitch pattern. And when I went to write the pattern, it was an uphill battle. I can't even explain why. I took notes along the way. The design was based on a previous item. Yet somehow, it wasn't as simple as just dropping ...