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10 Jun 2010 | The Elusive Blue Rose Hat |
| I marvel over the abundance of knitting patterns online. Whether free or not knitters are strutting their creativity. Today you give a knitter a pattern and they more often then not tinker with it, individualizing it with yarn choices, colors, sizing or embellishments, adding even more to the creative pool. Sometimes this tinkering is necessary as when a better fit is needed - the case with my recently finished Elusive Blue Rose Hat.
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20 May 2010 | | My husband, George, asked me the other day about my subject for my next blog post. I ‘d just woven in the last of the yarn ends and, being very pleased with myself, was modeling my Ambiente Modular Shawl. Having already blogged about knitting the shawl it was out of the running as a topic.
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29 Apr 2010 | Rowan Fall Preview at Knit Night au Chocolat |
| For those knitters and crocheters who gathered on a Tuesday evening at Chocolate Springs Café it was a memorable night of tasting yarns and chocolates. As needles and hooks turned yarn into small swatches, participants nibbled dark chocolate covered raspberry ganache, hazelnut praline crunch, dark and milk chocolate truffles, tea-infused bonbons, coconut rum balls and silky smooth caramels. The yarns were the latest from Rowan and Jess Oas, their New England Sales Representative, was on hand to show them off as well as garments from Rowan’s current books. The highlight for all was the chance to test knit Rowan’s three new yarns, Drift, Renew and Silk Twist, all available this coming fall.
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21 Apr 2010 | Kristin Nicholas Fairisle Workshop |
| On a recent sunny Saturday morning Kristin Nicholas shared her joy of Fairisle knitting with a group of knitters assembled at the Lenox Library. Gathering around a hand-carved wood table Kristin soon set each student to knitting a two-color Fairisle tube from a chart she provided. For some students this was an opportunity to learn how to knit with two hands. The tube included a steek that would be machine stitched and cut when the tube was finished. After capturing the start of the workshop on camera I slipped out leaving Kristin and her students in amiable conversation.
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24 Mar 2010 | | Two thoughts keeping floating through my mind as I knit this triangular Modular Shawl: from a small acorn a mighty tree will grow and wasn’t building with Legos fun as a kid. The shawl starts with a single pentagon – the acorn – and grows up to a generous shoulder-covering wrap. And from that single pentagon more pentagons, squares and half squares are added, each built upon the previously worked modular unit – the Legos.
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