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by Knit Picks Staff on May 25, 2010
When the weather turned chilly, I realized that Alice had outgrown all the hats she had as a newborn last winter. Knitting to the rescue! I’d had my eye on the Aviatrix Baby Hat pattern for a while, so that was an easy choice. Then I just had to go stash diving for the perfect yarn. I landed on Stroll Kettle Dyed in Gold. It’s my favorite of the kettle dyed colors, but I don’t wear yellow, so it was perfect to use for Alice, who looks great in yellow. The pattern calls for a DK weight, and, of course, Stroll is fingering weight, so I simply held the yarn doubled. The bonus to this was that the doubling broke up any pooling that the yarn may have wanted to do in the short-row constructed hat. The construction of the hat is just so cool, and it ... |
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by Brett on May 25, 2010
One advantage your LYS has always had over Knitpicks.com is ease of browsing. Just walk in the door and your eyes scan all the different colors they have to offer. Maybe one or two jumps out and catches your eye. Maybe you’re looking for that perfect shade of blue to compliment your nieces bright blue eyes or a funky purple that will match your favorite winter parka. In person, its easy to spot those colors, but online, you’re looking for a Palette Silver needle in a Swish Worsted Gold haystack. No more! We dug through our countless skeins of yarn and grouped them all by color for your browsing convenience. On the left-hand side of our Yarn pages, you’ll see a “Yarn Color” drop-down displaying every color of the rainbow plus grays, blacks, browns, multis and more! Underneath each color you’ll find the weight, fiber content, and price along with a link to ... |
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by Knit Picks Staff on May 25, 2010
Buying a gift card is a bitter sweet activity for me. On one hand, I’m giving a gift that gives in two ways–you get it as a gift, then they get to go shop with it, so it kinda doubles the enjoyment. Also, of course, they get exactly what they want. On the other hand, it’s kind of impersonal and can carry that negative connotation that I didn’t put much thought into it. The designers at Knit Picks have saved the day. The little sweaters in the Tidings of Joy kit are designed to fit a gift card! Now you can give a gift card inside it’s own little hand knit sweater. You get to give a hand knit treat (doubles as a holiday ornament for their tree) along with the very practical gift card. It’s a win, win, win. ... |
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by Knit Picks Staff on May 25, 2010
Last year when Brooke Higgins designed Sheldon’s career costumes, she also made him a cute little Santa hat. When Melissa was working on the design for Grumpy, the lump of coal, we realized that if she knit the hat out of Palette instead of Shine, it would be Grumpy sized instead of Sheldon sized. Well, that got us thinking… What if you knit the same pattern out of Andean Treasure? Or Gloss Lace? Or Suri Dream? So we all started knitting Santa Hats out of different yarns. It turned into a bit of a race. Melissa threw down the gauntlet and knit her hat out of Palette for Grumpy in only 52 minutes. Stacey tried to beat her, but clocked in at 1 hour using Swish Worsted. I knit my City Tweed HW hat in ... |
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by Kelley on May 25, 2010
Five more inches and I will be able to join body and sleeves!! That is quite an incentive!! Thanks to a staff meeting this morning I was able to finish the second sleeve up through the increases. Now all I have is simple knitting around and around for the last five inches. I have to say that the windy, rainy weather we are having today is ideal for knitting. I started my day knitting by the fire since I didn’t have my computer at home. I think it would be an excellent idea to end my day in the same way. But, I’ll exchange my sock for the sleeve of my Classic Lines Cardigan (CLiC). < |
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by Knit Picks Staff on May 25, 2010
I started Christmas early this year – last April or May. And I’m now done. Whew! I made 13 sets of the Felted Snowmen pattern (39 total snowmen). It was a wonderful project to work on over the summer. Very portable, small, and no heavy warm wool resting on me in the heat. Two of my Lumpies got special Christmas hats and scarves due to a Knit Picks Christmas Hat project (upcoming). It’s great to be done with my Christmas knitting in early October – that leaves me time to make some murloc dolls (World of Warcraft video game monster) for my nephews and guild-mates, a snazzy charcoal vest for the DH, a green cabled cardigan vest for the doctor, and some socks for the DH. (DH is greedy, but that’s ok, since he’s the only relative I have that will wear wool. Sigh.) Kudos to ... |
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by Brett on May 25, 2010
Our IT department has been working hard over the last few months rebuilding our shopping cart system to give our shoppers a better experience. Note: If you are redirected to the homepage or a broken page after adding an item to your cart, please delete your Knitpicks cookies. This should resolve the problem. See our FAQ for more information. For starters, we’re excited to introduce our first Wishlist. You can add products to your wishlist from any page, move items from your Cart to your Wishlist, and send your Wishlist to friends and family who might need more than a subtle hint when buying the right gift for you. The best part? The wishlist you send to others will update whenever you make a change. Change your mind or want to change the quantity of a yarn? No problem, make the change and when your SO gets his/her email, ... |
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by Knit Picks Staff on May 25, 2010
According to our very official poll results, 79% of you are knitting at least a couple gifts this holiday season. If any of you gift knitters are on a budget, you might appreciate our Knit 1, Give 1 kits. Each of the kits marked with this logo on the product page… …contains enough yarn to make more than one item. So for example: You can knit ornaments as gift tags or make one for each of your aunts, uncles, and cousins with the Tidings of Joy kit. Or knit accessories for the little girls on your gift list with just one Belle of the Ball kit. Both colorways of our Modern Classics Christmas Stocking kit make more than one stocking. The Clock Tam kit makes more than one so you can make a hat AND a clock (or 2 hats…or 2 clocks…). And the Learn to Knit Gloves kit makes more ... |
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by Knit Picks Staff on May 25, 2010
Remember the Portland contest I posted a few weeks ago? Sorry about the delay in picking a winner–we had lots of great entries, and I got sick last week, so it was a double whammy. We had so many awesome ideas suggested that we ended up choosing the top 10 entries and then drawing a random one from those. The lucky winner is Gwyneth who posted the following suggestions: 1. The Armory Theater in the Pearl District 2. Pix Patisserie on SE Division 3. If you can do outdoors, the Beverly Cleary statues in Grant Park 4. New Seasons or Whole Foods, esp produce sections 5. Bridgeport Brewery in the Pearl District, if you want to start a brewery series 6. Ecotrust Building in the Pearl District — bonus: get pizza at Hot Lips 7. Ace Hotel and its tenants: Clyde Common, Stumptown, Kenny & Zukes and the Cleaners event space 8. Again, if you can do outdoors, ... |
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by Kelley on May 25, 2010
I’ve decided that Friday should be an inspirational seque into the weekend! Check out this spectacular project at Painted Threads! Just what I need to keep in mind as I do some of my fall cleaning!! When I find little bits of yarn and fiber I can set them aside for felted balls! That and the audio book of Master and Commander makes for a lovely weekend! < |
