If you haven't stopped by the shop you might surprised. Sheila has been moving things around (again) and we love it! The small table is at the front, but don't worry we always expand it when needed. So, where's the rectangle table?
There it is! We opened up the back area. We are loving the look and feel of this space. But, wait, there's more.
More yarn! If you stopped by before the move, there were small shelving units and now we have taller and larger ones which hold so much more sock and lace yarn!
There it is! We opened up the back area. We are loving the look and feel of this space. But, wait, there's more.
More yarn! If you stopped by before the move, there were small shelving units and now we have taller and larger ones which hold so much more sock and lace yarn!
Although Sheila was home sick (we missed ya!) Thursday night was hopping with several highlights.
Nora showed off this simple sock pattern in Alpaca Sox. This yarn is yummy and what's even better is we are getting some new solids colors of this yarn. You have to stop by Thursday to get the pattern from Nora. While the pattern has the optical illusion of being cabled it's just some knits and purls.
Rosemarie finished her Rialto blazer. The sweater is amazing, look at all the seed stitch and the cables hit at the right spot for visual interest. Hopefully we can get a shot of Rose wearing the sweater (hint hint)!
Carol finished her Classic Elite sweater in Duchess and Princess with the silver shell buttons (which Lucy recommended-nice choice!).
Lastly, I wanted to show an up close shot of Sunday's Lady Eleanor in Nikki. Stop by the shop to try on this wrap and see if you want to try your hand at entrelac.
Happy Knitting!
Nora showed off this simple sock pattern in Alpaca Sox. This yarn is yummy and what's even better is we are getting some new solids colors of this yarn. You have to stop by Thursday to get the pattern from Nora. While the pattern has the optical illusion of being cabled it's just some knits and purls.
Rosemarie finished her Rialto blazer. The sweater is amazing, look at all the seed stitch and the cables hit at the right spot for visual interest. Hopefully we can get a shot of Rose wearing the sweater (hint hint)!
Carol finished her Classic Elite sweater in Duchess and Princess with the silver shell buttons (which Lucy recommended-nice choice!).
Lastly, I wanted to show an up close shot of Sunday's Lady Eleanor in Nikki. Stop by the shop to try on this wrap and see if you want to try your hand at entrelac.
Happy Knitting!
The love of fair isle has returned evidenced by the Old Navy commercial, increased fair isle projects floating in Ravelry, and by new patterns appearing on various blogs. You can even see all the beautiful knits that Wendy has been doing with sock yarn and mittens.
Once a week, I wanted to post information about fair isle. Last week, I posted some fair isle hat patterns for those who started the Beginner's Fair Isle class with Debra. This week, as promised, I am posting more fair isle patterns found on various blogs.
Hopefully next week we will have links to websites that are helpful for this technique.
Enjoy looking at the following:
Swedish Mittens
Alice's Queen of Heart Gloves
Tiffany Mittens
Tilda Mittens
Endpaper Mittens
Frankenmitts
Sunday came in with her lady, Lady Eleanor wrap in Cascade Nikki. Lady Eleanor is an entrelac pattern featured in Scarf Style. Scarf Style is a necessity for most knitter's libraries. You might recall we featured Nikki a few months ago when received it. Stop by the shop to see the completed object and try on (you might like entrelac!).
Janet and Sandy stopped by for the finishing class with a few items to show off as well.
Janet has been working on a wrap in ....are you ready... Misti Alpaca Handpainted. It is divine.
If you can name the yarn Sandy has been knitting (pictured below), that is impressive.
It is a trick question. Sandy combined Cascade 220 with a laceweight yarn to create this shimmery look to her sweater. Besides creating a unique appearance to the yarn, it is quite soft.
And Faith stopped by for a small sit n' knit. She brought in the fair isle hat she completed after taking Debra's Fair Isle class. Barbara, her fellow classmate, stopped by and they both discussed the class while knitting.
That is a lot of finished objects for one day and I missed Sallie's sweater as she picking out buttons.
Kathy has been checking the blog for fair isle patterns for mittens which we promised would be posted this week. Check back tomorrow for those patterns!
Happy Knitting!
Janet and Sandy stopped by for the finishing class with a few items to show off as well.
Janet has been working on a wrap in ....are you ready... Misti Alpaca Handpainted. It is divine.
If you can name the yarn Sandy has been knitting (pictured below), that is impressive.
It is a trick question. Sandy combined Cascade 220 with a laceweight yarn to create this shimmery look to her sweater. Besides creating a unique appearance to the yarn, it is quite soft.
And Faith stopped by for a small sit n' knit. She brought in the fair isle hat she completed after taking Debra's Fair Isle class. Barbara, her fellow classmate, stopped by and they both discussed the class while knitting.
That is a lot of finished objects for one day and I missed Sallie's sweater as she picking out buttons.
Kathy has been checking the blog for fair isle patterns for mittens which we promised would be posted this week. Check back tomorrow for those patterns!
Happy Knitting!
Sunday at the shop was buzzing at the shop kicking off with the Beyond Scarves class and continuing into the Socks with Sunday class. We had folks stopping by to pick up materials for their Moebius class, Debra stopped off to show her recent fair isle hat (sorry, no pictures) and there was plenty of knitting at the back table.
Anne dropped off two samples (one pictured below) of her knitted beaded bracelet. There are so many different colors and combinations.
Barbara stopped off as well to pick up some yarn and she showed us her mini knitted sock on the mini sock blockers. We still have some mini sock blockers left in the shop and it includes the pattern for the sock.
Anne dropped off two samples (one pictured below) of her knitted beaded bracelet. There are so many different colors and combinations.
Barbara stopped off as well to pick up some yarn and she showed us her mini knitted sock on the mini sock blockers. We still have some mini sock blockers left in the shop and it includes the pattern for the sock.
Have a great week and keep on knitting!
What's all this piled on the back table?
HANNE FALKENBERG TRUNK SHOW
January 25th. through February2nd.
20% Off all Kits
Come in during our trunk show to see and try on the beautiful garments designed by Hanne Falkenberg.
Orders will be taken for the kits in the colourway of your choice.
HANNE FALKENBERG TRUNK SHOW
January 25th. through February2nd.
20% Off all Kits
Come in during our trunk show to see and try on the beautiful garments designed by Hanne Falkenberg.
Orders will be taken for the kits in the colourway of your choice.
Thursday Night there was a funny coincidence: two people focusing on seaming sweaters. One could overhear Rosemarie and Jamie saying, "scissors", while Ellen kept saying, "I am loving top down sweaters!".
Rosemarie's blazer is gorgeous (back of the table in blue) filled with seed stitch and cables. When asked, "Rose, are you going to knit seed stitch again?", her response was, "heck no!".
Ellen's top down is on the left side in blue, white, purple, and red.
Jamie's sweater, for her neice, is the purple cabled sweater. Pictured below, she placed the buttons on top so we can have the final vision of the sweater when it is done.
Rosemarie's blazer is gorgeous (back of the table in blue) filled with seed stitch and cables. When asked, "Rose, are you going to knit seed stitch again?", her response was, "heck no!".
Ellen's top down is on the left side in blue, white, purple, and red.
Jamie's sweater, for her neice, is the purple cabled sweater. Pictured below, she placed the buttons on top so we can have the final vision of the sweater when it is done.
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