Knitting Mondays

Beatnik Contest Winner

The lucky winner of our Beatnik contest is comment # 2300, picked by random.org’s random number generator: Crysta! Congrats! And many thanks to Berroco, who generously provided the prize, and Norah Gaughan for designing such a terrific sweater. Have a look at some of the amazing Beatnik FOs and WIPs…. we look forward to seeing our contest winner’s version. Stockinette‘s in grey Susan Pak’s in red. Blackcloud‘s in green. And zoechen‘s blue version.

Jillian”s NaKniSweMo Update

It’s November 22. I still have 2 inches of body knitting, have to decide length and knit sleeves (I’m thinking short like the pattern) and do finishing. I have a good feeling about finishing on time. The pattern, Goodale, is fantastic. Easy to follow and fun to knit. I’ve learned attached i-cord edging and increasing in the row below from this pattern, and have since passed both techniques on to other knitters. It’s my favorite part about knitting, the constant learning and teaching. I’m still having issues with gauge and had to monkey with frequency and numbers of increases for the ...

Qiviut Sock Yarn & A NaKniSweMo Update

I’m a sock knitter who has poor circulation and lives in a cold climate, and therefore I’m always on the lookout for the most interesting and warmest sock yarn. And just the other day, at Toronto’s Creativ Festival, I found it: Cottage Craft’s Qiviut blend sock yarn.  It’s a yummy blend of qiviut, merino, bamboo and nylon, so it will be wonderful to work with, fabulously warm – and hardwearing. (Be warned, there’s none of this currently listed on the site, it looks like they are sold out.  Sorry!) I bought it at the Rose Haven Farm both.  Linda, the lovely proprietor, only ...

NaKniSweMo

You might have heard for NaNoWriMo… National Novel Writing Month?  Started in 1999, the idea was to encourage writers to set themselves a goal to write a 50,000 word novel in a month, in the otherwise grey and uninteresting month of November. Our own clever Shannon Okey decided that she had enough novels, but needed a new sweater, so NaKniSweMo was born – National Knit a Sweater Month.  After all, most sweaters have at least 50,000 stitches – and goodness knows, knitting a stitch is easier and faster than choosing the right word… Shannon’s  hosting a KAL on Ravelry, and has created a ...

Mythos kit ninja-bonus giveaway!

Our next ninja-bonus giveaway is a kit for the gorgeous Mythos sweater, designed by Laura Nelkin, which was published in our First Fall issue. The sweater is designed in Schaefer‘s scrumptious Audrey yarn [50% merino wool/50% cultivated silk]. Here’s what one lucky winner will receive: 3 skeins of Audrey Color: winner’s choice, based on availability Prize value: $114.00 Want to win? Leave a comment to this post by 9 am eastern time Wednesday, September 22st. We’ll pick one winner and announce the lucky person on our WWW post later that day. Good luck, everyone!

Ninja-bonus giveaway post!

Out of the blue, we’ve got a surprise ninja giveaway! [We love giving you stuff.] Today brings the launch of a new digital magazine, Sockupied, from the folks at Interweave. It’s not an online mag, though you get it from the internet. It’s quite a different thing. And it’s full of socks! This first issue also features a profile of our very own Cookie A! Go Cookie! Here’s how their press release describes it: “Sockupied is available as a digital download exclusively from Interweave’s online store for $14.97, beginning today. The eMag is actually a 365-megabyte application that ...

Keeping Track with Tags

Sometimes it’s the little things that save your sanity in knitting. The humble hang tag has come to my rescue many times. I’m a process knitter. Which is a nice way of saying I love to knit but it take me a while to finish projects. I might have a dozen or so projects and swatches for future projects going at once. I’ve tried keeping track of it all with sticky notes, with notebooks, with computer programs, for me, none of that works because they are all separate from the knitted piece. When I start a project or swatch I attach a hang tag after a few rows of knitting. I note the pattern name, yarn, ...

Knitting quickie

Something I realized while frogging [to fix the extra repeat of the lace pattern I somehow decided was necessary to insert between vertical columns — aka a real mess] last night… [Knowing that I almost always choose simple lace with a purl- or knit-back row will help this next  part make more sense.] When it comes to frogging lace off the needles, which I often do with simple lace, I always frog with the wrong side facing me. This means I’m undoing decreases and increases that I’ve just done, and for some reason, it’s easier for me to keep things tidy and not drop stitches or former ...

The Walker Treasury Project

Here at Knitty, we’re big fans of the Barbara Walker Treasuries.  There are four books, each containing hundreds of stitch patterns – lace, cables, ribbings, texture patterns, color patterns, you name it. They’re revered by knitters all around the world, and Ms. Walker herself is a genuine treasure in the knitting community. An international group of knitters, inspired by Nicole Hindes, is leading a giant knit-along, with the objective of swatching up every stitch pattern in the four books – and the unofficial fifth book in the series, Mosaic Knitting. It’s all at The Walker Treasury ...

When last we met…

Two Mondays ago [Knitting Mondays, to be specific], I hinted about my first knitting project after beginning to recover from treatment for my RSI — the RSI that has prevented me from enjoying knitting for more than a year. The project was Annis, and I knew I wanted to knit it from the moment it came into the Knitty submission mailbox. [Do you wonder if I ever knit anything that we don’t publish? I don’t. I think that would be super-tacky. Plus, if I like it well enough to knit it, that’s telling me I should consider publishing it! Patterns that come in that we aren’t able to publish get ...
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