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TECHknitting is going to write a series of posts about designing knitwear. Yay! I love TECHknitting, and have learned so much from that blog over the past couple of years. Until reading this post, I had not really thought about how many skills come together in knitwear design. These are all skills I have slowly been [...] Front of Square in the Round. Here is another pattern for an 8 inch (20 cm) square, suitable for the knit-a-square project. Your gauge, yarn and needle size aren’t important. Start with 4 stitches, join to work in the round, then keep increasing every second row until the square measures 8 inches. Materials: small amounts of DK (8-ply) [...] Zina and Dawne at Another Long Yarn are running a KnitALong to challenge knitters worldwide to contribute squares for Knit-a-Square. For every square that you knit or crochet, photograph and add to their KAS gallery before 15 March 2010, you’ll receive an entry into their prize draw. They’ve collected some lovely goodies including a handmade knitting [...] When knitting squares for the knit-a-square project, I discovered the delights of the reverse mitered square. A mitered garter stitch square with stripes, shown from the right side. Gauge, yarn and needle size aren’t important. You start with just 3 stitches, increase every second row until the square is the size you want, and then cast [...] My Mum and I have been knitting lots of 8-inch squares lately for the knit-a-square project. These squares will soon head over to South Africa, to be sewn into blankets for orphaned children.
Source: knit-a-square I love to experiment with different combinations of yarn, pattern and construction, so my 23 squares are a hodgepodge [...] Now that I’m no longer buying sock yarn wholesale, I’ll soon need to find new sources for enhancing my own stash. Bead and Opal Wool Queen is a great place for Opal sock yarn, of course. I like Opal a lot for hard-wearing, bright and funky yarns. Wish I could get ‘em in solid colours too, [...] The Fall issue of Knitty.com magazine is out. There are new patterns from two of my favourite designers. Straight to the queue they go! Clandestine by Cookie A. Another ornate, decadent sock design that may be a challenge to knit but will certainly turn out gorgeous. One of these days I will buy her book, Sock [...] I enjoyed completing this Online Color Challenge by X-Rite. It takes a few minutes to do it properly. According to X-Rite: ’1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency.’ Of course it depends on the computer monitor settings, and I wouldn’t put too much weight on [...] If you like to watch the cycling Tour de France and also like to knit socks, check out the Tour de Sox 2008. It’s a knit-along contest sponsored by Crystal Palace Yarns, with fun categories and nifty prizes. You can enter socks knit with any yarn you like, but there are extra prizes for socks knit [...] If you have an account on Ravelry or Facebook, you can now see the Yarnomat pages on those sites. If you’re a happy Yarnomat customer, you could make my day by leaving a comment on Yarnomat’s Facebook page, or adding yourself to the list of patrons on Yarnomat’s Ravelry page. I especially love Ravelry and am mildly [...] |
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