Published Work

INKnitters Third Charity Knitting Design Contest - Handknit Category: January, 2004 submission date, September, 2004 publish date.

Kathleen entered her Stashbuster Vest 2, the Jazzy Vest.

Like the first Stashbuster vests, this one was designed this to be a very easy pattern with little finish work. It is perfect for using up leftovers and can be knit up in three sizes from worsted weight yarn.

The vest pattern won second prize, a check for $100 and another year's subscription to the magazine.

Click on the images to see close-ups!

INKnitters Second Charity Knitting Design Contest - Handknit Category: January, 2003 submission date, September, 2003 publish date.

Kathleen entered her Stashbuster Vest, a vest for children. She designed this to be a very easy pattern with little finish work, to be knit plain or fancy, with little owls or a teddy bear face, fair isle, intarsia or stripes to use up the small balls in the stash and create a 1 of a kind treasure.

Truly a stashbuster vest, this pattern can be knit any size yarn from sport wt (doubled) to aran wt using the same cast on and row numbers.

The vest pattern won second prize, a check for $100 and another year's subscription to the magazine. The owl and bear vests were featured on the cover.

Click on the images to see close-ups!

INKnitters First Charity Knitting Contest - Handknit Category announced in 2001 with the deadline for submission of January 1, 2002.

Kathleen entered a little preemie vest and made up a bunch of them to show the possibilities of the pattern.

Her snake hat and vest won first prize and 2 hats (one is the free one on this website and the other is a chemo cap) won just the regular prize of inclusion.

Besides having her vest and hat patterns published in the Inknitters Charity Booklet, Kathleen also won $200 and a year's subscription to the magazine.

Click on the photo at right to see a closeup of the items which won. Kathleen knit 9 out of the 17 shown, all the vests and the 2 big hats just above the snake vest.

Kathleen entered the XRX Knitters Magazine Contest which was announced in issue No. 42, Spring, 1996. Deadline for submission was July 1, 1996, then extended to August 1, 1996.

XRX planned to have a special, prize-winner, sock feature in an upcoming issue of Knitters Magazine and display entries at Stitches 1996. Kathleen sent in 3 pairs and the ones that won were the Popcorn Panache socks.

Socks*3 was finally published in 1999 and she finally received her socks back after 3 years of waiting. Kathleen was surprised that they put out a BOOK of socks, not a pamphlet of patterns. Click on the pic at the right to see Kathleen's famous socks!

In 2000, Kathleen's samples of socks were accepted for another publication but unfortunately the book was never published.

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