My brain has been consumed with working on the new hat pattern from my last blog and turning it into a matching top pattern too. Asterid starts off with a diagonal mesh which mimics the overlaid mesh on the hat, without the bulk of extra stitches behind it. The bobbles are like a string of beads on a necklace. The yoke is extended with shell stitches, which sit under the the "seed pod" bobbles like a bed of leaves. The body of the top is a lightly textured shell pattern.

Before I even wrote my first pattern, I pattern tested for other designers. I have had some great experiences but I have also seen and heard some wild things! Those wild things pushed me to make the testing experience as good as I could for my testers. I couldn't publish my patterns without the help of kind volunteers. Well, I could, but it would be a bit of a disaster!