April 2007
We are particularly blessed with talented fibre people in Vancouver. We have great knitwear designers like Sivia Harding, Astor and Carmen Craig-Martin. Amazing technical editors like Knitty.com‘s Mandy Moore.
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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.
Itchy fingers
Not in the literal sense. I’ve really been wanting a mindless knit. I love knitting someone else’s designs because I don’t have to figure out stitch counts or calculate the rate of decrease for raglans or any of those things.
Computer sock
I like to have a simple stocking stitch sock on the needles and I keep it beside my computer. When I’m reading blogs or email or waiting for pages to load I pick it up and knit a few more stitches.
Owly
I teach a Strategies for Knitting with Self-Patterning Sock Yarns class. How’s that for a mouthful! One of the points I like to make is that your stitch pattern has to be really simple in order to do both the stitch pattern and the self-patterning yarn justice.
Guess What Arrived in the Mail Today?
As one of the contributing designers, I received my copy of Amy Singer’s new book No Sheep For You in the mail today.
Let me tell you, what a thrill!
Felting Fizzle
I’ve tried felting in the past without much success. My first attempt was a Cat Bordhi moebius bag. I had some undyed Condon’s on hand (woolen mill from the Maritimes that’s long gone out of business).
