Our two weeks in Edmonton have drawn to a close and we returned home this morning. The time went all too quickly. We didn’t get a chance to do all the activities we had planned and although I had a chance to get a lot of knitting and some designing done, it wasn’t anywhere near as much as I brought with me!
design process
Goodies
May 2007
I finally managed to make my way to a new LYS the other day called Three Bags Full. What a warm friendly little store. Look at what I bought!
Movement patterns
In preparation for a little presentation to my Guild tomorrow night, I’m going through my swatches and notes for a workshop I teach, Strategies for Knitting with Self-Patterning Sock Yarns. Some of my favourite stitch patterns to use with self-patterning sock yarns are what I call movement stitches.
Back to the drawing board
Hmm, my watery, wavy sock design just isn’t fitting the bill for me. While I think parts of it are interesting – I like that the lozenge shaped repeat isn’t repeating predictably around the sock.
That was fast
I placed an order with Elann on Wednesday. This is the first time I’ve ordered with them although I’ve often looked. I’m looking for a standard DK weight yarn for a design and want to experiment with the Rowan Pure Wool DK.
Who me? Design a sock?
So I started a new computer sock the other day and after a good solid 2 inch ribbed cuff I took a good look at what I had so far. The striping pattern of the Regia self-patterning yarn seemed pretty uninspired.
Annie’s Mittens
Every year the West Coast Knitters’ Guild knits mittens for a kindergarten or grade one class in New York City. One of our members has a daughter who teaches at an inner city NYC public school.
