Sew What?

Knit, crochet, appliqué, quilting, embroidery - it's all fibercraft. When I released the Hawaiian Harps collection last month, it was suggested that the designs might work well for home embroidery machines. And guess what? They do!

As of June 26, 2022, the Hawaiian Harps designs are available for machine embroidery as two-color blocks. Each block measures 5" x 5" (12.7 cm x 12.7 cm) and is provided in 10 formats: DST, EMD, EXP, HUS, JEF, PEC, PES, SEW, VIP, and XXX. Conversion to other formats may be available upon request. Finished blocks may be used as part of a quilt, pillow, wall hanging, or any other project. 

Please note: you must have access to an embroidery machine to create these blocks.

Supplies for all blocks:
Design Thread: 455-630 ft (varies by design)
Bobbin Thread: 155-200 ft (varies by design)
New machine needle
Medium weight non-stretchy fabric
Medium weight stabilizer
Quilt batting
Quilt backing
Quilting thread

Patterns are $8 each through my Payhip store (or directly below with a Payhip shopping cart ) or through the Sylvia Woods Harp Center. As with the appliqué blocks, if you're interested in purchasing four or more, I recommend you take advantage of the quantity discounts of 15-30% at the Sylvia Woods Harp Center. ). Choose your own main color - the choices below are only a few options!

ME001 Celtic: $8 details | add to cart
ME002 Clarsach: $8 details | add to cart
ME003 Concert Simple: $8 details | add to cart
ME004 Concert Fancy: $8 details | add to cart
ME005 Egyptian: $8 details | add to cart
ME006 Gothic: $8 details | add to cart
ME007 Whale Song: $8 details | add to cart
ME008 Harmonic Curve: $8 details | add to cart
ME009 Kinnor / Harp of David: $8 details | add to cart
ME010 Lyre: $8 details | add to cart
ME011 Simple Harp: $8 details | add to cart
ME12 Paraguayan: $8 details | add to cart

Playing with strings

It had to happen eventually, right? Designing for a new form of fibercraft. I've made a foray into appliqué with my first set of quilt patterns, Hawaiian Harps. 

My mom and I learned to do Hawaiian appliqué a long time ago, but I hadn't done much with it since. I leaned more toward knitting and crochet (which she also taught me), where the tools of the trade aren't generally sharp enough to draw blood.

But since I lost my mom last year, my heart hasn't been in the yarn. What to do instead? Quilt blocks. She was great at pieced quilts, and I can still tell a double wedding ring from an Irish chain. But while I appreciate traditional quilts and the work that goes into them, I much prefer to creating appliqué - there's less mathematical precision involved.

The idea for Hawaiian Harps came from the tradition of Hawaiian quilting, where the design fabric is folded in eighths and the pattern is cut out and unfolded, then sewn onto a background. If you've ever made a paper snowflake, you are familiar with the process. Most real Hawaiian quilts have leafy, flowery tropical designs and are quilted in an echo pattern. Mine are a little different. I wanted harps, and there was nothing like these out on the internet. I used the process of making a Hawaiian quilt block, but based each original design on a different harp with a coordinating border. Here's the end result:

The block patterns are available individually for $8 each through my Payhip store (or directly below) and from the Sylvia Woods Harp Center. There are 12 designs total. If you're interested in purchasing four or more, I recommend you take advantage of the quantity discounts of 15-30% at Harpcenter.com. 

The blocks can be used individually in any project you can think of. I plan to join mine to make a bed quilt, but wall hangings, pillows, bags, and throw blankets would all be viable options. Each pattern includes full-size eighth-fold templates for 14" and 18" blocks. Cutting and assembly instructions are included, but finishing instructions are not. For the motifs, I used batik fabrics from Gathering Friends Quilt Shop on Etsy.

Purchase directly from Payhip without ever leaving this site by using the following links. (No quantity discounts apply.)

Q001 Celtic: Add to cart
Q002 Clarsach: Add to cart
Q003 Concert 1: Add to cart
Q004 Concert 2: Add to cart
Q005 Egyptian: Add to cart
Q006 Gothic: Add to cart
Q007 Whale Song: Add to cart
Q008 Harmonic Curve: Add to cart
Q009 Kinnor / Harp of David: Add to cart
Q010 Lyre: Add to cart
Q011 Simple Harp: Add to cart
Q12 Paraguayan: Add to cart

Are there other designs you would like to see turned into appliqué blocks? Let me know in the comments!

 Happy crafting and please stay safe,
~ Caroline

Payhip store now open!

 Hi everybody! I've finally opened my design store on Payhip. You can find it at https://payhip.com/KnitDesignByCaroline 

The selection is a bit skimpy now, but more patterns will be added gradually. If other site interfaces bother you, please try here. As always, you can still purchase my patterns directly from this website.

In other news, I'm branching out into appliqué and quilt patterns. More info coming soon!

Happy crafting!
Caroline

Happy Pi Day To You

Today is Pi Day (3/14 in places that put the month first). You could celebrate by having a piece of pie at 3:14 this afternoon (which I may very well do). Or you could bake conundrum cookies. (They're cookies! But they're also pi!) Or just maybe you could create something science-y with yarn. To facilitate, I'm having a PI Day sale from now until midnight Friday, March 19. There's a 31 percent discount on all my science-inspired patterns shown below. They're all knit except for Cuddly Chem Lab, which is crochet.

These are the patterns that are included, with no minimum or maximum to buy. Enter the code PIDAY314 at checkout.

You can purchase the patterns directly through this site by clicking the links below. Remember, you get 31% off when you enter the code PIDAY314 at checkout.

	Cuddly Chem Lab- $6.95 buy now | add to cart | show cart View details at Ravelry
	"Diagonally Parked In A Parallel Universe" Socks - $5.95 buy now | add to cart | show cart View details at Ravelry
	Gorignak Hat - $5.95 buy now | add to cart | show cart View details at Ravelry
	Lepton Flange Fingerless Gloves - $5.95 buy now | add to cart | show cart View details at Ravelry
	Miss Sakamoto Sash / Headwrap / Belt - $4.99 Coordinates with "She Blinded Me With Science" Bag buy now | add to cart | show cart View details at Ravelry | KnitPicks
	Selenite Shawl - $5.95 buy now | add to cart | show cart View details at Ravelry
	"She Blinded Me With Science" Bag- $6.99 Coordinates with Miss Sakamoto Sash / Headwrap / Belt buy now | add to cart | show cart View details at Ravelry | KnitPicks
	Temporal Wingnut Hat - $6.95 buy now | add to cart | show cart View details at Ravelry
	Tesla's Lightning - $5.95 buy now | add to cart | show cart View details at Ravelry
	Time Tunnel Scarf / Cowl - $6.95 buy now | add to cart | show cart View details at Ravelry
	The Technobabble Collection - $12.95 buy now | add to cart | show cart View details at Ravelry

And as always, the Dongle USB sock keychain is my free gift to you. Click here to download PDF.

Happy knitting / crochet!

~ Caroline