Friday, December 10, 2010
New Free Pattern - The Celestial Cowl!
By Sarah Grieve
This pattern is featured on the Gina Brown's website as a free pattern promotion for the Schulana Mosco. It's a fun quick knit that only takes a few hours to make - just in time for Christmas! The beautiful linen ribbon yarn mixed with the mohair makes for a light as air, ethereal look.
Materials:
2 Balls of Jaeger Celeste - MC - #185 Lilac - 90 Meters - (50% Viscose, 30% Polyamide, 20% Linen)
1 Ball of Schulana Mosco - CC - #30 Purple - 125 Meters - (67% Viscose, 20% Mohair Superkid, 13% Polyamide)
12mm Needles
Instructions:
Cast on 30sts.
Row 1-2 : Knit with MC
Row 3-4: Knit with CC
Repeat the last 4 rows until scarf measures 65 inches.
Sew the top and the bottom to each other. Weave in all ends. Wash & block.
Tips & Tricks
*This yarn is now discontinued as Jaeger is now out of business but we have 4 lovely colors - all at half price!! This makes the project under 20$ to knit!
* When sewing the scarf together, you could twist one end for the appearance of a infinity scarf.
* The Celestial Cowl could be made by substituting the Mosco with 1 ball of Superkid Mohair such as Drops Kid Silk or Schulana Kid Seta.
* The Celestial Cowl could also be left open and worn as a scarf.
Monday, December 6, 2010
A Baby Hat for Anna
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Winners of the Winterside/Knitcircus Magazine Contest!
I wanted to start off by saying thank you all for your kind words and for participating in my contest!
Now . . . .
The moment we have all been waiting for.
Yay!
The winners for the Winterside / Knitcircus Magazine giveaway are:
* Affiknitty
* Adri
* Valerie Clark
They will receive a free copy of the latest Knitcircus Magazine !
I hope you all enjoy reading through the magazine as much as I did.
*I have sent all the winners messages either on Ravelry or in email. Winners were picked using a random number generator.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Winterside - KnitCircus Winter 2010 & a Contest!
The latest Knitcircus Magazine came out today and my pattern Winterside was a part of it.
It's a quick knit because the sleeves and the tops of the sweater are knit in one piece and then grafted together. Then the stitches are picked up around the waist and a fair isle band is knitted following a chart. The band of stranded knitting is a great way to learn to knit stranded patterns because it’s not too hard! Then the rest of the bottom is knitted downwards. It's a great way to learn to knit sideways.
I'm doing a contest to promote Winterside in the new issue. All you have to do is leave a comment at the bottom of this post and you are entered for a FREE COPY of the new Knitcircus Magazine! There will be 3 winners! The contest will be closed on Nov.30/10 at midnight mountain time and the I will post the winners the next day! Good luck :)
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Creating Mr. Monkey Pants . . .
It's fun to watch all the pieces come together and to see the personality that comes out of the little knitted creature . . . I decided to name him Mr. Monkey Pants because he's got an aire about him - with his fat body and soon-to-be, little beady eyes!
This Sunday, I am teaching a Sock Monkey Class @ Gina Brown's. It's a two part class in which we are going to make either the adult or baby sock monkey (whatever people prefer) from the Paton's Monkey Business book. I think this is going to be a great class and I can't wait to teach it.
Here is Mr. Monkey Pants so far:
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Ewan
I am quite excited about this design! It's knit sideways which is by far my favorite way to knitting a sweater - why make lots of pieces when you can make just two?? Lana Hames (The owner of Hemp for Knitting)is the designer & friend that introduced me to sideways knitting, and to her I am quite thankful. She has the neatest designs and I learn a lot when I knit her patterns. You can check out her blog here.
I'm going to add a tutorial in the "Tutorials and How-To" page on my blog that will help for when you are knitting along and get to the gusset & the sleeve division for the front & back. It's a really simple step but can sometimes need more clarification to ease the process.
I owe a huge THANKS to Cheryl for all of her help. Cheryl, Ewan's mom, was great in letting me 'borrow' Ewan to take some photos. She also is responsible to taking all these adorable photos - (she's a great photographer!) She has a daughter as well that I would love to knit for . . .
Here are some of the photos from the photo shoot that Cheryl and I did. He is such a cutie!
Monday, July 26, 2010
An Aran Twist . . .
Monday, June 7, 2010
Fly, Fly, Flutter By, Fly . . .
I have been looking for a cute, little pattern that I could bring with me in my purse - something small and definitely cute! I was looking around on Ravelry and stumbled across the Flutter By Socks pattern - just what I was looking for. There was an extra ball of Fleece Artist Trail Socks looking all good on my shelf and I had been saving it for just the right pattern - this was it! So I had to cast on right away! The pattern is well written and easy to follow :)
Now off to bed so I can leave early tomorrow morning.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Concord Cable Pattern is now up on Ravelry!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
A New Cabled Cowl
Here are a few teasers . . .