I’m on vacation this week, but I thought I’d share a video I took last week while I was home during the photoshoot day. I recently reorganized my yarn stash (and frankly am rather embarrassed by the meagerness of my stash, but now that I can see it all, I’ll be much more inspired to start projects!).
I got those great tubs at Target. And, here are links to some other knitting supplies I find indispensable:
Jacquard Acid Dyes and Sock Yarn Dye Blanks
Yarn Swift
Yarn Ball Winder
Needle Binder Cases
Knitting Needle Coil Wraps – you can see these holding my DPN sets together in the binder pockets – I love these little things!
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OICyarn!
Congratulations Sonja! I hope you enjoy your City Tweed HW yarn. Maybe a nice hat?
I am working on my next Knitting Buddy project! As soon as it is finished, I’ll share it with you and have another drawing. <

Hey everybody! I don’t know if you’ve seen this feature on the website yet, but we’ve started adding video interviews for each of the new kits. I sit Nina or Kerin down in a locked room with nothing but the kits they’ve designed, then I don’t let them out until they’ve spilled all their secrets about the design process, pattern features, and tips for knitting the project. Each video is added to the product page for the kit under the “Video” tab, and you can watch the video without even leaving the page you’re on. Spiffy!
Here are a couple of my favorites:

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My friend, Elizabeth, spied on me during Sock Summit and kept notes on the colors I enjoy wearing. When she got back home she made me this lovely wet-felt, silk scarf. I have been waiting for it to be cold enough to wear it! Well, please notice the turtleneck I’m wearing as well as the scarf. I am even wearing my lovely Imagination socks. It’s definitely cold!

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This week’s podcast featured Nina talking with Kelley about hems. Nina was kind enough to allow me to film her explaining three different hem types that you can use on your knitted sweaters. Also, I love her scarf. 🙂
(If you’re interested in knitting any of these sweaters, check out our Design Your First Sweater kit. You just choose your color, and then you get to make all sorts of design decisions – hem type, neckline, all sorts of details that allow you to make a custom sweater.) <

In an attempt to justify my current sock knitting I’ve decided to recruit more sock knitters. If everyone knits socks then my behavior will become the norm.

This is the first of five videos in the first segment of the sock knitting videos. These five videos will get a new sock knitter up to casting on and working the leg. My plan is to follow up with the second segment to work the heel flap, heel turn, picking up the heel flap stitches and starting to work on the gusset decreases.
To finish off, the third segment will show toe decreasing, Kitchener stitch and fun ways to continue with sock knitting.
To make it easy to reference the videos, I’m going to start a Discussion topic for each video with the knitters in our Sock Knitting KAL. That way we can talk about each step in its own Discussion forum.
I have structured these …

We got so many amazing entries for the Mr. Foster Halloween contest, it’s taken us longer than we originally thought to narrow it down to just three finalists!
The patterns for our finalists aren’t available, but you can still download the original Mr Foster Sock Monkey pattern and get patterns for the Mr. Foster Doll, his pajamas & robe for those lazy days, and three outfits for his many career paths: Dr. Foster’s scrubs & labcoast, Officer Foster’s cap, shirt & pants, and Sailor Foster’s pants, shirt & cap.
After lots and lots of deliberation, I’m excited to present you with the following 3 choices:
Zorro by Deb Thomas, aka Freelance

King Kong by Cheryl Waters, aka cherylbwaters

Spock by Elisa Willis, aka ClosetGeek

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In September, we announced a contest so members of the Knitting Community could help us find all of the pickle ornaments hiding in the Knit Picks online catalog. There were 20 pickles total, and we received a lot of correct entries!
I randomly chose 5 winners with correct answers, and they will each receive a complete Tidings of Joy Holiday Ornament Kit so they can knit their own pickle ornament, as well as the other 21 ornament patterns in the kit.
The winners of our Pickle Sleuth contest are:
dinasmiles2
archercrafts
emcknits
Sunshine
PurlGirl
All of the winners of the contest have already received an email from me. Congratulations!
Also, this picture is of the pickle ornament hiding on top of a ball of Hazelnut Palette that I put in my cabled coffee mug. <

It’s officially fall, and it’s time for me to pick up my City Tweed sweater that was a little too hot to work on over the summer.

City Tweed is a great yarn for fall knitting. It’s warm enough to be outerwear before you have to break out the winter coat. It’s soft enough to wear next to your skin, so you can be cozy in a sweater whether you are raking leaves or sitting in front of a fire. The yarn colors range from rich harvest tones to bright jewel tones with several neutrals as well, so it’s sure to match your fall wardrobe.
I found some wonderful inspiration when I was perusing City Tweed HW and DK projects on Ravelry. Thanks to everyone who gave me permission to use their photos! In this slide show, each picture has the knitter’s Ravelry user name, the name of the pattern, and a …