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Kiwi A Wedding!

My cousin just announced that she's getting married in August! This means that I have approximately 5 months, give or take, to knit a shawl as her wedding gift. Luckily, the LYS still has their cashmere/silk yarn on sale half price, so I'm set! Now I just need to find a pattern... Continue

Added by Kiwi on February 8, 2010 at 3:49pm — No Comments

Alison Sneak Peak - New Spring Yarn

It's that time of year again! We have some great new cotton and lace yarn coming in for Spring 2010. Diedre handles all of our yarn orders, and she places a separate order for an early air shipment of samples so we don't have to wait until the container of yarn arrives by boat. This system lets us keep the shipping costs for the bulk of the yarn low, but we get to use the samples ahead of time for catalog samples, kit development, and other projects.



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Added by Alison on February 8, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

kyletarvin Superbowl sadness

The Superbowl is over. Even though I had been rooting for the Colts, I’m okay with the Saints gaining their first ever title. What I’m not okay with is the fact that I am now facing seven football-less months. Yes, I am mourning the end of football season. The combines and the draft don’t count. Pre-season games don’t count. March Madness will tide me over for a short whi

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Added by kyletarvin on February 8, 2010 at 5:38am — 2 Comments

Kelley Petkun Ideal Knit-A-Long (KAL) for first-timers!


I launched my

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Added by Kelley Petkun on February 8, 2010 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

Erica Jackofsky The Sweater Project: Day Seven

Today's blog is going to be relatively short, which reflects the amount of time I had to knit on Scotch Mary... Practically nothing. During the morning I did work a few of the increase rows. (With some luck, and probably the help of a movie, I'm hoping to be done with those pesky raglan increases sometime tomorrow.) After these few rows I decided to be very greedy and took today as a day off. Really I was being very responsible. I had made plans to spend the day with Chris (my boy… Continue

Added by Erica Jackofsky on February 7, 2010 at 11:00pm — No Comments

RavensFlight Yarn add on

Hello my fellow Kintters,

I have a question, what is the a good method to add yarn (not a new color) But my method has been to tie to the existing yard and continue knitting. But I have found that tie on method has made that a bit bulky in the area. I thought I'd ask for other techniques that perhaps may work better than the tie on method that I've use. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Blessings Onna

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Added by RavensFlight on February 7, 2010 at 8:45pm — 2 Comments

Roxanne Mystery Sock KAL, Day One

I was up until 2:30 this morning, knitting my mystery socks. I ended up using the method described in Antje Gillingham's book, Knitting More Circles Around Socks. Basically, I'm using two circular needles, with half of each sock on a 16" needle and the other halves on a 24" needle. I'm only on the cuffs right now, just three or fours of knitting so far, but it's going well. We'll see if I can work a more complicated pattern once I get my ribbed cuffs finished.

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Added by Roxanne on February 7, 2010 at 6:48pm — No Comments

Susan the Blue Lake Knitter Is Cast-on-itis a Disease? If so, I have a bad case!

The last week has been very busy, what with welcoming my new grandson, Sam, into the world, and I had two days were I accomplished very little knitting. Finally on Thursday and Friday I got to knit a lot. My DH asked if I had gone through fiber withdrawal... I think that is exactly what happened to me.

I finished all the knitting on the Karin Tote, blocked it on Friday, and mattress stitched it together on Saturday. Then I whip stitched the strap, and inserted the inte

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Added by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on February 7, 2010 at 6:45pm — 12 Comments

Crystal M A Knitting Day

Of course I think everyday should be a knitting day, but that is just me. Anyway, I didn't get hardly any knitting done yesterday. I got a call from the wonderful Mr. Man asking for help to clean his bedroom and go through his closet. HIs bedroom has been a bit of a storage area as opposed to strictly a sleeping area. Well of course I couldn't turn him down. I mean he did ask nicely. That actually took a large part of the afternoon and evening. By the time I got back home it was a bit late for m… Continue

Added by Crystal M on February 7, 2010 at 10:22am — No Comments

Erica Jackofsky The Sweater Project: Day Six

I'm at a rather boring part in my knitting as far as sharing any adventures, or misadventures. The raglan increases are killing me. Rows upon rows of stockinette stitch that has the nerve to be increasing by 8 on every other pass. However, those long and steadily growing rows have big payoff—no sewing in the sleeves. Seams have always been my downfall with sweater knitting, and that stinks because sweaters (along with hats) are probably my favorite knitting project. I like the rew… Continue

Added by Erica Jackofsky on February 6, 2010 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

Kiwi Y'Know That Curse Thing?

The curse lives on! I was sewing up the wee baby sweater last night when I noticed that one of the front pieces wasn't fitting right. After double checking, I realized that I had completely missed binding off 3 sts at the beginning of the raglan shaping. D'oh! I ripped back and re-knit, and now I just have the 2 long side seams to sew and snaps to attach. I guess the sweater curse is contageous! I will post pictures when it's all done, of course.

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Added by Kiwi on February 6, 2010 at 2:51pm — 1 Comment

Dana Jonsgaard Some more Pals

Here is Chloe and Caleb

These are going in the Showcase window at the Lake Winona Manor where my grandma lives. The residents enjoy the new items that I come up with to

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Added by Dana Jonsgaard on February 6, 2010 at 2:38pm — 2 Comments

Elizabeth Bechtel mini knit mitten ornament

I'm trying to find the directions for a really cute mini mitten set that is a tree ornament, it was knit in the round and has a pattern on the back...it was an easy pattern....probably from the 70's if not earlier!
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Added by Elizabeth Bechtel on February 6, 2010 at 1:29pm — 2 Comments

Crystal M A nice day off

So my morning started off with a nice cup of white chocolate and raspberry mocha. I go old school on my espresso. I like the stove top espresso that I have. My espresso never turns out bitter. I also have a little express electric kettle thingy. It's plastic with a nonstick heating element. It not only heat up water in a flash, but will also heat up milk quite nicely. Which is way better then heating it in the microwave and burning my fingers on the mug. Not the mention the mess I made in the

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Added by Crystal M on February 6, 2010 at 12:12pm — 1 Comment

Erica Jackofsky The Sweater Project: Day Five

Button Hole Blues
I really didn’t get a whole lot of knitting done today. I wanted to, as always, but there was other work that needed to get done. So I spent the day mostly working on things that I had been putting off doing for my Website and laying out patterns. I figured I should probably put the finishing touches on the… Continue

Added by Erica Jackofsky on February 5, 2010 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Julie Prerost Toddler Fair Isle project finished!

I finally finished sewing together the fair isle toddler sweater. It was done in time for my daughter to wear it on her fourth birthday. I am quite pleased at how it turned out. We will have to see how it how it washes. It is superwash wool. I have started a simple lace scarf on 15 needles using mohair silk blend yarn. I am pleased with both the results and the speed. It will make a fabric that is reasonable for use in early spring. I am still trying to dream up a fun pattern for stick-it-to- th… Continue

Added by Julie Prerost on February 5, 2010 at 7:03pm — 2 Comments

Kerin Don't believe that groundhog!

Maybe it's just foolish optimism, maybe it's the strangely calm winter we're having here in the Pacific NW... But I say, spring is coming early! Early, I say! Hear that nature?

Why so excited about spring? Well, because I can show off my Fancy Feet!

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Added by Kerin on February 5, 2010 at 6:24pm — 11 Comments

Amy Green Here it is Ladies!!

Here it is ladies! Without buttons, because I started the BSJ so long ago, I don't remember what I did with them! It has a couple of "design flaws" but it's finished. I learned alot along the way too, like M1's are a touchy subject and I'm still not convinced I'm doing them right. N

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Added by Amy Green on February 5, 2010 at 2:47pm — 4 Comments

Kiwi Hooray for OSAP!

I just found out that I will be receiving a whopping $450 from the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) for this semester (I should really be getting more, but they think I'm still dependent on my parents for some reason, c'est la vie). Since all of our material fees are included in tuition, and since my boyfriend is spending his entire tax return on himself, I'm going to use this money for yarn. Fair is fair, after all. I've racked up quite the wishlist on KP today and I'll be ordering

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Added by Kiwi on February 5, 2010 at 1:08pm — 2 Comments

Kate Moynahan Second Sock Done and Warming Feet.

I forgot to tell you all I finished the second sock a while ago and sent it down to my niece Grace. Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of it, however she is very happily sleeping in them, and they are keeping her nice and toasty. I am also happy to report that our lesson was not in vain, she is still knitting away. Apparently her girlfriends are all asking her for scarves, so she has plenty of gift projects in her future. I'm so please… Continue

Added by Kate Moynahan on February 5, 2010 at 1:03pm — 6 Comments

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