Why Lorigamivan?

First of all - thank you to all the people who have started following me on Instagram. I know it is a little harder to find me there because there are so many variations of Crafty Lady on that platform that I had to choose something that would be recognizable as uniquely me.

So far, no one has asked me why I used Lorigamivan as my 'handle' so I have to assume they/you are all familiar with my Lorigami glove and sock patterns. For those of you who are not familiar with these patterns, let me explain why I choose the name.

Here are a couple of comments from those adventurous enough to make my original Lorigami pattern:

"This is, hands down, the freakiest thing I’ve ever knitted. But it’s genius." - yarmando on Ravelry

"Quite the challenge. Thank you guru1, but I’ll be very careful what I say next time I’m in the shop, lest you should have any more fiendish patterns lurking…" - cdn on Ravelry

Then I came out with my Lorigami Socks.

"Having made the lorigami gloves (and the baby mitered coat,) I figured I had to give these a shot" - cdn on Ravelry

Not to toot my own horn, but with comments like that, I have to think that people will remember the name Lorigami.

But where does the VAN part come in? Well, a couple of years ago, I already had my mobile store in mind. I was going to buy either a cargo van or a box truck and convert it into a mobile store. Then I realized that, with a little tweaking, the motorhome would work. It's not a van, but LorigamiRV just didn't have the same ring to it.

So, I'm still trying to get the RV ready for the spring and, once it is on the road, there will be more Instagram content for those who like to see more pictures 😊

written by Lori, TCL owner, who is getting excited about 2021!

Lori Patterns: Lorigami Gloves

When I saw Lori designing this thing it looked like a spider web of cables. I was expecting one of them to reach up and strangle someone, like in a movie I saw when I was a kid, where plants managed to creep into people's houses and climb up on them and squeeze them until they died of suffocation.

Yeah, like that. My mom was really good about letting me watch bad horror movies. I think she just didn't want to watch them alone so it was nice having a six year old hold her hand when she got scared.

Anyway, that spiderweb of cables turned into the Lorigami glove. Made with one skein of Katia Darling. You can use 190 m of fingering or sock weight yarn. More if you want a longer glove.

She calls it her most difficult pattern.

But that isn't going to dissuade you knitters, now is it? Not those of you who are tried and true and like a challenge.

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Message from Lori:

Customer's gloves

I received this email earlier today and I was so moved by it that I had to share (with permission, of course).

"Hello The Crafty Lady!
I received a ball of yarn and the pattern for the Lorigami Gloves as a Christmas present, from my Mother-In-Law.
I phoned your store in January, as I wasn’t sure I had enough yarn for the project – I was assured that I did, have enough (1 ball of Katia Darling, colour201 – beautiful!)
I decided to try out the pattern with some spare sock yarn before committing whole-heartedly to the “Good Stuff”.
It took me 3 tries to figure it all out – an Evil Genius created this pattern!!
My sample glove was knit on size 3mm needles, as specified in the pattern – I found them a bit snug, so I moved up to a 3.25mm needle.
I was distracted by a few socks that needed to be knit in the interim, but finally finished my gloves this week.
I LOVE them!
They are warm and give all my knitting friends the “willies” trying to figure them out. wink emoticon
I will definitely make several more pairs of these – perhaps in the longer version to more fully cover my wrists.
As to the yardage on the yarn……..I finished with 5 yds remaining – a bit scary, but, as promised, Enough. wink emoticon
Lori, you truly are a genius and an “outside-the-box” thinker.
I greatly enjoyed the figuring-out of this pattern, and seeing it all come together.
Thank-you.

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So if you're looking for something different, something exciting, something challenging, then I dare you! 

Posted by Anna Maria Junus (happy employee who plans to make these one day)