knitting book idea

I have a goal now that for a few years now I’ve been contemplating but never actually started the process. The interest and idea and inspiration have always been there but just since I quit working for a moment which was only made possible by my loving husband fully inspired by the way God created marriage to mirror Jesus love for us. Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”. Well I have the inspiration to make a knitting pattern book. Still in the coming up with knitting patterns faze. I don’t know if it will ever be published or how to go about that, but for now I’m just enjoying the process of making new patterns. How God the creator of all things gave us the joy of creating still blows me away. All I really know is I want it to glorify God as our attempt in everything we do should be. So, if it ever gets published either by a publishing company or by me making hand bound books God has inspired me to give the proceeds to a Christian organization. So far I’m thinking either my church which is doing a lot of work in Austin, Austin Ridge Bible Church or supporting individual missionaries or maybe to foot the bill of me making homemade baked goods and buying needed supplies and Bibles for the giant homeless population in Austin who I feel a calling towards. So this is one of my dreams / prayer requests. All of the patterns I've made so far are under the Lilah Shepherd's Designs at the top right of the page, newest patterns at the top. Thanks for reading.

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God is amazing how he inspires me to create, the creator himself. I hadn't really designed anything since the spring and all of the sudden here's one of my new designs. All of the praise goes to Him. I wasn't sure how it would turn out at first, but it came out awesome. Inspired by a vintage 30's sweater where the entire body of the sweater was a diagonal stitch. It took me 5 trys to get the opposite diagonal for the right arm. I made a variation of the herringbone rib stitch found in the vogue knitting stitchionary volume one for the right diagonal stitch that makes up the body of the arm warmer. Worked from arm up to fingers. First worked flat and joined to work in round after buttons. The thumb gusset has yarn overs at the beg. and end of the gusset area that makes eyelets around the thumb. The way the thumb is made leaves no holes which i find annoying in other patterns. Up the side of the left side (or the outside of the left arm) is a triangle pattern made up of diagonals from a series of knit, purl, knit, purl sts that are 2 stitch cables. The tip of the hand has cables with a row of 2 bobbles between each 2 cables. The lack of increases for the arm make the warmer fitted which I really like. I love the color and the yarn: Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool Color: 15. brick yellow. Unfortunately the color was recently discontinued. But i love the yarn texture and how it knits so much the dog sweater I'm knitting for my new puppy Lola is the same yarn in Color: 064 fire red.

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Hi,

First entry, hehe, a little intimidating but nothing I can't handle. I'm starting this because I love to craft, that is a little vague. I love to sew and draw with pastels or charcoal, pen and ink and watercolors. I've tried a lot of stuff craft wise. I'm about to get into print making.

For my birthday I got a Kodak Z1275 digital camera and a Canon PIXMA Pro 9000 with 8 ink cartridges. I'm so excited. I haven’t opened it yet. I’m not sure where I want to keep it so that Jamin’s three cats who live with me don’t destroy it. Jamin is by the way my fiancée. It is sitting on my kitchen floor safely in the box all anxious to be opened and used. I need to get some art paper to print on.

I want to make prints of my art work to sell because up till now I’d been selling originals. I tried to remember to take a phone picture of stuff before I sold it but I didn’t always remember :(. Anyways, mainly on little 4.5” x 6.25” paper. Some pen and ink with watercolor flowers and faces, mainly faces. I’d sit outside this popular coffee shop on the Square of my town and ask people if they wanted to look at my art. For the most part the response was being ignored or sped up walking. But sometimes people would stop and look at my pieces in vellum envelopes held down by river stones so as to not blow away. And on the rare occasion actually buy one. Which was really exciting.

After much persistence of my friends telling me after watching me among gatherings of friends sit contently focused on sewing something I started an etsy.com account called “even eve”. So eveneve.etsy.com is its name and place. I wanted a name that would reflect my faith and belief, to honor God and give him the glory for giving me the ability to sew and artistic talents, to give everything to him. It took me a while to come up with the name. I prayed about it and had some ideas. Some which were already taken, others including numbers like a verse reference which after reading articles on name suggestions decided against. My fiancée came up with it. So “even eve” which the letters put together themselves are cool because they are a palindrome. But it stands for that salvation and the forgiveness of past, present and future sins that Jesus accomplished is for everyone even the first sinner, even eve.

I plan to post on projects I’m working on and etsy insights I’ve learned from research and having my own shop, post things that are just too cute or cool to look past, inspirations and updates.

I hope that you enjoy your future readings of “the little cloud” because I’m excited about getting started :)