Preview my new WEBSITE!! (www.stefaniejapel.com)
Http://www.stefaniejapel.com Oh you guys, I couldn’t be more excited! My new website is about to go live! It was designed by Julie Levesque of http://www.symposi.com. The site has everything all in one place: shop, portfolio, workshop information, links to my blog and etsy shop. The best part is that it all [...]

New Online Class: How to Fit Your Knits
I’ve developed a new online knitting class, at the suggestion of many of the 430+ members on my online Knitting Studio site. The class is called “How to Fit Your Knits” and is based on a workshop that I have taught in person many times. The class will be held on my Ning.com [...]

Two Tshirt Yarn shrugs, a WIP and a Mazie update
Here are two new Tshirt yarn shrugs that my mother knit up: She dyed her tees with tea, and I think that the colors she got are just fantastic: Very subtle, but very nice. Here’s a link to the pattern, and one to the class. WIP update: I’ve been working on a sweater for myself, and even though [...]

Uh oh, Mama’s got a new lens
On Miriam’s recommendation, I bought a new 50mm lens. So far, I think it’s wonderful! Here are some knits…don’t they look so much more mysterious and intriguing in short focal length? The background just disappears. This is a vest that I originally knit for my book, but which now really doesn’t go along with the [...]

How much relaxing can I cram into one weekend?
Here’s me on the couch on Friday afternoon. I finished my book on Thursday afternoon, then on Friday we had an ultrasound that somehow took all day. I was so exhausted from both the book-finishing and the emotional stress of the ultrasound that I just felt the sofa and bad TV calling me. [...]