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Meet Purl Knitworthy

Lindy was terribly frustrated with her current DIP (design in progress), a lacy hand-painted mohair sweater. With the front, back, and one sleeve of the sweater finished, she suddenly noticed that she had forgotten to do the armhole shaping on one side, stitches had been dropped more than once, and, oh horror of design horrors, her yarn was nearly used up.

Just when she was about to turn this DIP nightmare into a yarnatov cocktail, I walked into Lindy's studio for a job interview. “Stop!”, I cried, unable to bear the sight of such gorgeous yarn about to go up in flames. Startled, Lindy dropped the sweater pieces (and the can of lighter fluid) as she turned to face me.

“Who are you?” she snapped, our appointment apparently forgotten. “This is not exactly a good time, or hadn't you noticed?”

“I'm Purl Knitworthy, and it's obvious that this is exactly the right time, actually”, I replied, unfazed. Before she could stop me, I picked up Lindy's sweater pieces from the studio floor, where they had been languishing like rejected film clips on the cutting room floor. And as she watched, one skeptically raised eyebrow gradually changing to a gleam of hope in her eyes, I quickly wove silk ribbons through the dropped stitches while simultaneously sketching a design that would convert both the lack of armhole shaping and the lack of yarn into an amazing asymmetrical creation.

“You're hired!”, exclaimed the dazzled Lindy.

That was ten years ago, and I'm still helping Lindy transform the potentially frightful into the indisputably fabulous. (For Knittique customers who remember Lindy saying, “It's not a mistake, it's a design element!”— she got that from me.) To celebrate this milestone, we created Scraplet Skeins, each with ten different groups of yarns. And to introduce all our wonderful customers to the joys of working with Scraplet Skeins, we offer you our free Scraplet Skein Wrap pattern (which I'm modeling on the home page). Enjoy, my fiber-licious friends!

Feeding the fabulous fiber frenzy (after all, that IS my job),

Purl

Purl Knitworthy is Lindy's alter ego, fabulous house model, design muse, yarnista extraordinaire, and alliteration aficionado. She writes exclusively for Knittique, Inc.

Whenever you see my purlwise picture in the sidebars, you'll find my super-helpful tips!

Why “Purlwise”? This is a knitting term meaning to work in the direction as if you were going to purl (for example, to insert your needle into a stitch from back to front, as you would when making a purl stitch). And (naturally) I want you to be “going to Purl”! Hence... Purlwise!