Laura Ricketts Designs

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands..."

Laura Ricketts Designs is a personal and business website for Laura Ricketts, hand-knitwear designer, author, teacher, crafter, mother and wife.

We Interrupt This Blog to Announce...

It's heeeeeere!​

The book has been released!  To say it, makes it sound like it is a wild ravenous bear.  Perhaps the keeper left the barred door unlocked -- by mistake -- and the bear escaped without notice.  This is the way it feels, too.  I've been tending these essays and patterns for a year, and been tending to migraines the last couple days.  The last few days have also been spent fending emails, tweets and fb notifications.  And all to this effect:   ​It's here.

What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?—It's Here! »

If you've pre-ordered—the eVersion will arrive in your inbox later today.* If you haven't ordered yet there are release day goodies and discounts to entice you, but only until 3pm EDT on Saturday (of ...

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Until 3pm EST Saturday, free goodies will arrive with the download.  After that time, they will disappear.  The chief goody is another of my patterns, The Comfort of a Friend Woman Shawl, also called the Cross-My-Heart/18-hour Shawl.  Starting April 16, I am leading a Knit-Along with this Shawl, and YOU, if you will join me!​