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October 27, 2011  

**NOVEMBER Classes begin next week**        

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OPEN Knitting group meets:

Every Wednesday:

1-3PM

 

 After Hours Knitting:
1st Thursday of every month:
6-9 PM
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 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. 
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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

You'll find more when you view the complete schedule for class times and fees. 

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)

 
UPDATES and CHANGES
 
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 KnittingWe'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.

Do you FACEBOOK? If you "like us", be sure to say so. Share your projects and ideas with other knitch fans there, too.
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."
Sock loom
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!
Bucky mitten 2
Jane W's "Go Bucky" Mittens