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OPEN Knitting group meets:
Every Wednesday:
1-3PM
After Hours Knitting:
1st Thursday of every month:
6-9 PM |
NEW ARRIVALS | | Little Red in the City
This enigmatically-titled book from Scottish designer Ysolda Teague is part pattern collection, part resource book, beautifully illustrated with color photos and drawings.
Ysolda takes you beyond S, M, L, and XL: learn how to create successful sweaters that perfectly fit your body, no matter what your size and shape.
__________ Vogue Stitch-a-Day
Knitting: 100+ Patterns Throughout the Year 2012 Page-A-Day Knitting calendars are in. Daily knitting inspiration for you or a friend. Also new to our shelves Stephanie Pearl-McPhee' s newest book, All Wound Up (Mary says the yarn harlot's first essay hits the mark: When you hear "I don't have time to knit?" Another newbie form the iconic Alice Starmore who cannot be beat: Charts for Color Knitting |
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Greetings!
November has crept up on us and it's time for a new round of classes to begin next week:
- By popular request, Luci Williams will return with another 2-day Beginning Spinning workshop, plus a one-day workshop for continuing spinners on creating your own novelty yarns.
- Beginning knitters have a choice of learning on a hat or washcloths.
Register by phone (262-646-9392) with your credit card, OR print the form and mail with a check to knitch, 608 Milwaukee St, Delafield, WI 53018. (You can register in person, too)
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We've added a new column to the newsletter containing some of our favorite (and in some cases, indispensable) links for knitting and crocheting information. (at left) Let us know if you have some favorites, too. We'll check them out and possibly add them to the list in the future.
AFTER HOURS KNITTING a new name and time for Thrusday evening Open Knitting. We're dropping back to one night per month for After Hours Knitting. Sit and knit with us from 6:00-9:00pm on the first Thursday of every month. All are welcome.
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First Sock Success Story | | The needle-free way to knit footwear
Expecting her first grandchild, Kaye-Lynn decided she wanted to learn some of the "grandmotherly arts." So she started by knitting baby socks.
No one was more amazed than she was herself. "I made a real sock!" she said when she brought the first half of the pair into the shop to show us. "I never knit in my life before!"
The secret of her success? The Sock Loom. Kaye-Lynn simply followed the instructional DVD that comes with the loom. "It was easy to navigate," she said. "I didn't panic at all through the process--it was wonderful. And fun."
| Baby sock made on Sock Loom |
We now stock a variety of looms--also known as knitting frames--for making socks and other items, plus kits and books. Great gift idea! Knitting frames--close kin to the "Knitting Nancy"--have been around in one form or another for at least a few hundred years. |
Inspiration: FORWARD | | More Fair Knitting for Foul Weather
A while ago, we featured some "Go Bucky" mittens made by Debbie P., who was inspired to design her own color-patterned mittens after taking Christi's Fair Isle Mitten class last winter. (offered 9-11 Mondays in November)
In turn, Debbie's idea inspired another knitter to try her hand at some team-spirited stitching. But Jane W's son wanted his mittens to include the "Bucky" logo, too.
Jane wasn't sure exactly how to go about that, but with some encouragement from Mary ("You can do it!") she took a Bucky logo from a drinking cup and charted it out on graph paper. She used a basic mitten pattern she found online as a template for the overall design.
Forging ahead innocent of the conventional wisdom that says you can't knit intarsia in the round, Jane created a unique assymetrical pair of hand warmers for her son to wear to the Badgers' games this season. Go Jane!
| Jane W's "Go Bucky" Mittens |
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