Fabulous Freebie Friday
by Stacey on November 4, 2011
This week’s Freebie Friday pattern is Meghan Jones‘s beautiful hat pattern – Cloche Divine!
Contest winners!
by Stacey on November 3, 2011
Thank you so much for all of your suggestions on our little survey! They were all really helpful & we’ll make sure to pass them along to the IDP designers.
We randomly chose the winners for the prizes – I hope they enjoy the pretty Glimmer yarn!
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An unofficial survey (with a giveaway!)
by Stacey on November 3, 2011
Thanks for all of your suggestions! Comments are now closed – we’ll announce the winners soon!
Over the past couple years, I would say that the majority of my personal knitting projects are from downloaded patterns. The popularity of downloadable patterns has been growing every year – for instance, we have almost 1400 patterns in our Independent Designers program, not to mention our popular in-house designs, free patterns, eBooks and book patterns available for download as well.
I get requests from the IDP designers a lot, asking me what kind of patterns they should be working on. Well, we know what we like & what we think would be popular with our customers but I thought I’d ask our blog readers – what kind of patterns would you like to see more of? Sweaters? Socks? Hats? Easy patterns? Challenging patterns? Leave a comment below & let us know!
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Advanced Cabling Techniques: Multiple Crossing Cables Video
by Jenny K on November 2, 2011
In keeping with the theme of last week’s Race to Wrapped, this week’s video tutorial continues our exploration of cables! Since we focused on introducing simple cables and twists to new knitters last week, we thought it might be fun to do an entire series that shows off unique and interesting cables for more advanced knitters.
Check out part 1 of our Advanced Cabling Techniques video series, which shows you how to create multiple crossing cables! These unique cables have a three dimensional appearance that makes it look as though you are creating interlocking rings.
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Weaving With Roving
by Hannah on November 1, 2011
I found two delightful, bright braids of roving at this year’s Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival from the Wool Gatherings booth. The minute I saw their bright colors, I knew I wanted to try weaving some scarves with it.
In Brief Praise of Ugliness
by Knit Picks Staff on November 1, 2011
With my clothing, I rarely venture outside dark colors and
neutrals. The most thrilling sweater I own is in a shade of cranberry.
However, that doesn’t prevent me from using color in the projects I crochet;
lots of color and all of it at once.
The lion’s share of my handiwork is cheerfully ugly, the
natural conclusion of higher gauges, a bird-like level concentration
and all that aforementioned use of color. If a project goes as planned, it’s so
delightfully unattractive that I’m pleased and repulsed in equal measure!
We are lumberjacks & we’re ok!
by Stacey on October 31, 2011
(with apologies to Monty Python)
We all hope you are having a great Halloween! Many of us here at the office love to dress up on Halloween and some of us couldn’t resist going with a theme – Lumberjacks!
When Joanna Rankin‘s pattern for Beardo came across my desk, we all thought it was one of the most fun patterns we’d seen & made plans right then & there to make them for Halloween.
Weaving & Color
by Jenny K on October 31, 2011
If you have been following along with our podcasts, you might have heard Kelley chatting with me about rigid heddle looms. After working with Kelley on creating video tutorials for weaving with a rigid heddle loom, I was instantly fascinated by the color possibilities! I have never worked with a rigid heddle before, but I am in the beginning stages of planning out my first project.
Everyone needs a rubber chicken!
by Stacey on October 28, 2011
It’s that time of the week again – Freebie Friday! This week we have something really fun:
A Primer on Charts
by Knit Picks Staff on October 27, 2011
A couple of summers ago, I did a whole tutorial series on knitting
Lace. Now that we have better video equipment, I’ve made a video to
expand on some of the information I covered – specifically, how to read a
chart.
If you’re new to lace or mystified by charts in general, this (twenty
minute!) video takes you through everything you need to know to get
going. It’s not just lace specific, either – though lace comes with its
own set of interesting features. Since the video is HD quality, you can
watch it in fullscreen mode to get a high-quality closer look – and even
pause and knit along if you’d like.
Read more to see the video!
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