I have some exciting events coming up! First:
This Thursday, here in Portland, I’ll be at the Fluevog store on SW Stark, just a couple blocks from downtown Powell’s, for their Yarnie Evening! You can find details on facebook here, or in this ravelry thread here.
I’ll have pattern books for sale, as well as some of these record yarn bowls I’ve been playing around with:
It should be a fun time – I hope you can stop by!
And then, next month up in Seattle, I’ll be once again teaching at Knit Fit! It’s November 8-9, and I’ll be teaching 2 classes, plus the Game Knitting night, which has become a fun annual tradition.
This year I’m teaching a brand new class on no-pattern hat knitting, and I’m teaching the sideways edge cast-on and bind-off class again. Find the full Knit Fit! schedule here. For the Game Knitting night, we’ll be knitting to one of my favorites – 10 Things I Hate About You!
I’m really excited that my 2013 TNNA boothmate Alexa of Tin Can Knits will be there this year! And my roommate from that same TNNA, Andrea Rangel, who is a regular at Knit Fit!, will be back again this year – it’ll be like a TNNA reunion :-p
In other news… I have designed my first ever garment pattern! It’s a stripy pullover sweater, and it’s scheduled for release at the beginning of November. You don’t get to fully see it yet, but here’s a peek:
It’s about as leethal as can be – designed for any weight yarn, at any gauge, custom sized to your measurements, constructed modularly, with no picked up stitches, and some grafting but no sewn seams. You start by making a gauge swatch to get an accurate gauge measurement, then you fill out a worksheet to get all the numbers to plug into the pattern, and fill the blanks. Then you just knit your sweater, all customized for you! As for the knitting, it’s mostly stockinette (mostly in the round) and garter stitch (mostly flat), which means there’s very little purling, and it’s great TV/movie knitting. I even knit a chunk of my sample while watching a movie in the theater – that was a first for me!
I put my sample up as a ravelry project, so I might add more photos there as the release date gets closer, and I’ll post more peeks on instagram/twitter too, later in the month. I just wanted to let you know it’s coming, since I’m super excited about it! The sample you see is in Hikoo Kenzie, which I absolutely LOVE. A new favorite yarn for sure!!
That’s all my newsy stuff for now, I think. I haven’t yet posted about Adventure Knitting: The Mysterious Trunk now that the knit-a-long is over, but that’s because I’m waiting until the print book is ready, and I’ve been slacking a little on getting it done, keep getting distracted by other matters… so, soon. But yeah, this year’s Adventure Knitting is all revealed on ravelry, so you can look at all the awesome projects that were made for the knit-a-long, and you can buy the whole thing together in an ebook now, if you like what you see!
Okay, happy orange leaves and spicy flavors season! Hope you have something fun on the needles!
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