Tag: knitting

  • YARN Magazine

    YARN Magazine has just posted its contributor guidelines, just in case you’re thinking of submitting some patterns! (I know I am.)

  • Knitty Calendar

    Knitty Calendar 2006Woohoo! The Knitty Calendar is available for ordering! Now you can hang me on your wall.

    Later: Okay, now that I’ve looked at all the other images I can really see where ours fits in. They’re all so colourful and kooky!

    Much later: The Honorable Mentions Gallery is now up, and both of our other photos were selected!

  • Straight-Laced Socks

    Straight Laced SocksRemember the wool I won in the Give a Little Raffle? Here it is! These are the Straight-Laced Socks from Knitty. As usual, I had to adjust the heck out of the pattern to make it work. I increased the number of stitches to 76 (38 on each needle) and thus had to change the maths of turning the heel. I think I’ve finally got my head around it, but I made this heel a little narrow. (Technically it’s perfect though, so I couldn’t bear to frog it back.) The toe was also turning out a little long so I started doing the decreases every row instead of every other. Still, they’re really pretty, aren’t they?

  • Happy/Sad Mac Sweater

    Total knitting nerdery: Happy Mac / Sad Mac Sweater. Oh man, if I made one of these for me and then one with Tux on it for the Snook… My head would explode.

  • Grand Prize Winners

    It appears the cat’s out of the bag, so we can make it official: Amy and I won the GRAND PRIZE in the Knitty Calendar Contest! That’s right; the picture of us in front of the opera house is going to be on the front cover! HOW COOL IS THAT?

  • Smile of Hand Knitting

    I was putting our bamboo knitting needles up on the website today when I discovered the English-language home page of Tulip, our Japanese supplier. I was cracking up at the translations, especially their two slogans: “The Needles is Affection” and “Smile of Hand Knitting.” It’s very Mr. Sparkle.

  • Knitted Cupcake Hats

    Knitted Cupcake Hats. Awww, those are adorable! I might need to make one for Marianne to match the butterfly cardi I have planned for her. (Hey Nat, this is a hint for you to send me her measurements!)

  • WOOHOOO!

    I just got in from a nice lazy Saturday morning with the Snook to find about seventeen hysterical messages from Amy. Remember that Knitty Calendar Contest we entered a couple months ago? Well, we just got an e-mail from Amy Singer saying that one of our photos was selected! (We’re not allowed to tell you which one yet, nor which prize we won. It’s kinda like going on Jeopardy and then not being able to tell how you did til your show airs. Knitty is all about building the suspense.) But anyway, HOW COOL IS THAT?! I’m a model! I think the formal announcement will be made when they post the Fall Surprises, so it shouldn’t be very much longer…

  • Knitty Pattern Round-Up

    ClapotisFinally I’ve got another Finished Object to share with you, along with two knitted Gifts. First is my take on the ubiquitous Clapotis. I never planned to knit one of these wraps (which have gotten ridiculously popular in the last year), but I just happened to be listening to the KnitCast interview with the designer on the same day that we got this luscious new shade of Noro in… and I was powerless to resist. I worked out that I needed six balls of Kureyon to do the pattern as written, but after I’d casted it off I realized I wanted it longer and frogged it back to include a seventh ball. As it is, I can wear it as either a really big scarf or a smallish wrap. I like it. (I blocked mine out into a rectangle and I prefer it knit-side out, both of which are different from the model photos.) Next is Shimmer, a glamorous little lacy shrug that was knitted by my friend Miss Fee. She made it for herself to wear for a wedding but afterwards decided it was too big to wear again (and too nice to consider unraveling). She persuaded me to try it on and pronounced it a perfect fit, and then she gave it to me! How nice is that? It’s knitted out of Filatura di Crosa’s Zara mixed with Night to give it a bit of glitz. I know I was anti-shrug before, but this one is just so pretty and girly! I need to get some nice tops to wear with it. And last is the long-awaited picture of baby Ruth Cunningham wearing the Norgi jumper I knitted her. I have no idea how Nat and Staci managed to get it over her head, but doesn’t it look adorable anyway? I love it with her little jeans!
    Shimmer   Ruth in her Norgi

  • Festivals

    Whaddaya know, there is going to be a knitting festival in Goshen this weekend! Awww, I’m sorry I’m gonna miss it. Of course, heading out to the Australian Beer Festival should make up for some of the disappointment… (Thanks to Aunt Deb for the heads-up on the knitting.)

    Edited 01/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.