Kelley chats with designer Kerin about tips and tricks for reading
knitting patterns.
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Melissa tells Alison about her design process for developing the new
colors for hand painted yarn (including new colors for Stroll, Shadow,
and Felici).
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Meghan Jones
designs such fun bright styles for kids (and adults!) it’s hard to
resist not getting every single pattern by her, even though I have no
children to knit for! And her adorable daughters modeling them doesn’t
hurt in the least. She is such a talented designer & we are so
pleased to have some her patterns in the IDP program!
This has been my year of sweaters – I’ve finished 3 so far and have
yarn and patterns picked out for at least 5 more. (My sock knitting has
seriously suffering during this obsession with sweaters – I have not
finished one pair yet this year!) Now that it’s finally getting warmer
here in the Pacific Northwest, what’s a sweater knitter to do? I still
want to make them but having a lap full of wool or alpaca doesn’t sound
appealing.
My IDP designers came through for me!
Brittany Tyler’s
recently released a second pattern with us (her first, the Embossed
Argyle Sweater Vest is one of my sweaters I already have yarn
picked out for)
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and I absolutly adore it. And it’s in Simply
Cotton Worsted – perfect!
Her
April
Cardigan! I really love the back detail
Welcome to the first lace class! In this introduction, I go over the very basics: what is lace, what is lace yarn, and how to select the right yarn for a project.
A new video will be posted each Thursday. Next week: How to handle lace yarn – winding, storing, working with lace yarns, and more.
I’m incorporating answers to your questions in each video – so keep asking!
Kelley and Alison chat about new colors in wool and alpaca yarn for fall, the new cashmere-merino blend Capra, and spinning supplies.
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Working on the IDP program has been such a great experience. I get
to work with all these fantastic designers – some I’ve been a fan of for
years, some I only just met & am excited to see more from – and
then best of all, I get to share them with all of you! And we hit a
major milestone this week.
We have sold 50,000 patterns since December
!!!!
I couldn’t believe it when that number came up! WOW! I’m so happy
that this program has been as popular with all of you as it is for me
& the designers – remember, the designers keep 100% of all their
pattern sales. We now have over 260 designers and just under 600
knitting and crochet patterns and it grows every week – I put up 10-20
patterns every week in the IDP catagory. In fact, have you seen our new pattern catagory redesign? Now it’s even easier to find your favorite IDP patterns!
Since I like lists (yes, I’m a nerd), how about our top sellers
overall? These 5 patterns do have a little advantage as they went up
when we first started – but they do cover the wide range of patterns
available!
Lace is one of those things that can be pretty intimidating. But it doesn’t have to be!
Join me as we
explore the wonderful world of lace yarn. Fabulously fine, lace yarns are a lot
more versatile than you might think. Experiment with color, style and
techniques, and learn that in the yarn world, ‘little’ goes a long
way!
This won’t be a typical “here’s a project we’ll work on together” type class. Instead, I’ll be going over things like how best to wind lace yarn into a ball, how to deal with joining new balls of yarn, what you can do with lace yarn that’s not lace, and lots of other information that should take the “EEK!” factor out of knitting lace. Have a question that’s kept you from experimenting with lace? Ask away!
The first video in this class will be posted on July 1 – bring your …
Read more »Kelley chats with Tina about new
tools that have arrived for Spring 2010.
Book Review
Twisted-Stitch
Knitting by Maria Erlbacher
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So, you’ve knit some lace, and it looks like a big pile of holey
cheese. Now what? Where’s that gorgeous shawl pictured in the pattern
photo?
There’s only one way to see the true beauty of what you’ve made. Block it!
In
this video, I go over all the tools you’ll need for the job. I’ve also
included our existing tutorial on blocking with Lace Blocking wires. I
had planned on photographing the process as well this week, but time was
not on my side! I will post some next week. Do you have any questions
about blocking, or have blocking before-and after stories and photos to
share? I’d love to hear from you!
Now, without further ado, let me introduce you to the most fun and magical part of lace knitting.
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