I've started designing again recently. I never really stopped designing, but I made things that weren't quite right for publishing, and I didn't want to spend the time to make them right. I've also made a crazy number of swatches for YarnSub over the past couple of years, so making actual wearable things has been a slow process for me. Then, a few weeks ago, Kate at Northern Yarn sent me a skein of her own yarn to try. This yarn has a great story. Kate returned to her Lancashire root [...]