In April 2013, I traveled to Italy for my first visit. In my travels, I discovered 3 yarn shops. This blanket incorporates the yarn that I purchased in a small shop outside of Parma. In this post, I discuss my visit and this yarn find. Here’s Sunrise in Italy The center of each of these… Continue reading Sunrise in Italy Knit Blanket
Leisure Arts has published my new collection of knit dishcloth dress patterns. This collection of 7 dresses each with the newly designed bodice are named for a fun activity that you’d like to do instead of cleaning up the kitchen . These dishcloths are knit with a worsted weight cotton yarn and U.S. Size 7 knitting… Continue reading More Dishcloth Dress Knitting Patterns
The Orange Blossom Yarn Crawl was held the first week of March in Florida and I was fortunate to be in Florida at the time. I toured Historic Cocoa Village and visited Knit and Stitch. The area and the shop were lovely. I discovered this yarn by The Fibre Studio dyed especially for the shop.… Continue reading Visiting the Orange Blossom Yarn Crawl Shops
My Pinterest Board of Creative Skills to Learn has a photo of the Cricket Loom on it. I’ve been admiring this loom for several years and wanted to add weaving to my creative activities. Finally, I was able to take a class at the Knitty Gitty last week. It was actually two classes. The first… Continue reading I Learned to Weave
Here’s a stitch pattern that I have admired for a long time and finally decided to knit it. It’s called Candlelight. This is one repeat of the pattern on U.S. Size 7 knitting needles and using worsted weight yarn. I am a little disappointed in this pattern. All the photos that I admired showed multiples… Continue reading Knit Stitch Pattern Saturday
Spring is here and I’m thrilled and excited as I wait for warmer weather and flowers to bloom. In 2015, I designed a special dress dishcloth called Dressing for Spring. I continue to offer this knitting pattern and donate $1.00 from each sale to Heifer International to purchase Chicks. Since we all love a new… Continue reading Welcome Spring 2017
Today’s stitch pattern in called Carolina Squares and is a stitch pattern that is reversible. It is blocks of Irish Moss stitch and blocks of knit and purl rows. I cast on 1 repeat of the 21 stitch pattern and knit 30 rows using U.S. Size 7 knitting needles and worsted weight yarn. The complete… Continue reading Knit Stitch Pattern Saturday
Today’s knitting stitch pattern is called Inverness Diamonds from Barbara Walker’s Treasury of Knitting Patterns. This was a fun and easy stitch pattern that repeats every 17 stitches and 12 rows. For this swatch, I cast on 51 stitches (3 pattern repeats) and knit the pattern 2 1/2 times. Once again, I used worsted weight… Continue reading Knit Stitch Pattern Saturday
This week’s stitch pattern is titled Concentric Squares . This stitch pattern is 30 stitches plus 2 edge stitches and 32 rows to one complete repeat. I only cast one repeat of 32 stitches and used U.S. Size 7 needles and worsted weight yarn. With a nice seed stitch border this pattern will be lovely… Continue reading Knit Stitch Pattern Saturday
Although I have many shawls in my Ravelry queue and yarn for them in my stash as I wrote about on February 15, 2017, I couldn’t help but start the Holmes Shawl from the Spring 2017 issue of Love of Knitting. This is a magazine that I don’t usually buy but this issue has this… Continue reading Shawl Knitting
