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Free pattern: Seattle gloves ARAN weight

Thu. October 28th 2010 6pm

Last week I was contacted on Ravelry by a knitter named Becky. She told me that she wanted to make a fingerless glove for her husband, preferably with my Seattle pattern using ARAN weight yarn. Since my original Seattle gloves are knitted with US#3, and Becky wants to make them with ARAN weight yarn, re-calculations and ultimately re-writing the whole pattern are in order. Instead of just re-calculate/re-write the existing pattern, I want to show you what it entails to do this. It's a lot of work! What happens if... Question: Let's say Becky would have printed out my original...

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Clickety Clack

Wed. October 27th 2010 9pm

I love shoes...very very much... almost as much as I love yarn. When I bumped into these heeled beauties, I gasped and my mouth dropped. I took them home with me, pranced around in them, twirled around in them and they went clickety-clack on our shiny wooden floor. And then it happened...suddenly I had this jolt of inspiration. If I were to design an early Spring line, evolving around these very shoes, what would I design? And what yarn would I use? And what color scheme would I use? Dear reader, I literally ran to my yarn stash, pulled out my whole collection and started to...

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Geeky much..?

Tue. October 26th 2010 10pm

I am such a geek... with numbers and with stitch patterns. I can spend hours and hours re-working and re-calculating a pattern. And then dismiss the outcome because "the numbers are not right". For instance, my original Seattle glove has certain numbers in them. Numbers that are carefully chosen: they all had to be divisible by 2. Let me break it down to you: The original Seattle gloves have the following numbers in them: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 42 and also 5 which doesn't really fit in the sequence but I let it pass. All those numbers were put in there by me deliberately... HOW...

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Lots of work ahead

Mon. October 25th 2010 7pm

How was everybody's weekend? Have you been able to relax a bit? And have you had some knitting time to yourself? I sure do hope so! For me, the whole weekend through, I have been thinking about all the projects that lay ahead of me. It is really a lot and to prevent myself from going completely bonkers, I have set priorities on a weekly basis. Today, at the beginning of a new week, I would like to show you what you can expect from Getting Purly With It in the next few days! Are you ready? Let's go! Request from knitter Becky Last week, knitter Becky contacted me on Ravelry asking me...

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Feeling elated...

Fri. October 22nd 2010 10pm

First of all, uh oh, I found a typo in the Vanessa Headband pattern last night! I corrected it immediately and if you have downloaded the pattern before or on October 21, get rid of it and download the new and corrected one! If you have downloaded the Vanessa Headband pattern after October 21, you should be fine. Sorry about, folks, although I try to be very concise and precise, sometimes a typo just sneaks up on you. Inspiring Events Over the past few weeks I had the pleasure to attend several inspiring presentations. The owner of Madeline Tosh held a presentation...

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I got side tracked...

Wed. October 20th 2010 12am

I promised that I would issue the headband pattern today and was about to put the picture tutorial together this morning... but then got terribly sidetracked. While making coffee, I thought to myself: "How would that headband look in a narrower version?", and before I knew it I was knitting a narrower version instead of producing a picture tutorial. Sigh... why do I do this to myself all the time? Like I haven't got enough designs to write out. Anyway, I like the outcome of the narrower version just as much as the original wider version: So, now I am going to...

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A little something something...

Tue. October 19th 2010 3am

After having spent the whole day at Rhinebeck Saturday, petting all kinds of yarn and being surrounded by so many gorgeous fibers, I still felt the urge to go to a yarn shop the next day. That's how much of an addict I am. When I told my husband that I was on my way to Knitty City, he slipped me a little something something and specifically told me to only spend it on yarn. Dear reader, I felt like it was boxing day on Christmas morning... I spent all afternoon yesterday at Knitty City and brought home two skeins of Malabrigo Rasta, a skein of Venezia, some...

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Needles on Fire

Sat. October 16th 2010 3am

My needles have been on fire over the past few days. There hasn't been a moment where I haven't been knitting and project after project have been completed continuously. Oh joy, oh joy, that powerful creative energy is back and I welcome it with wide open arms. When it comes around, it sure does come around and I jump on it with much delight. Fast and easy Fast, easy and instant satisfaction have been my mantra. Super bulky yarn, needlesize #17, oh yeah, just the way I like it! Just the other day, while I was browsing through the knitwear section of Urban Outfitters, I spotted an infinity...

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Luxury Knitting

Tue. September 21st 2010 11pm

It is no secret that I love to knit with luxury yarns. I have worked with merino, silk, alpaca, qiviuk and cashmere yarns, oh what a spoiled knitter I am! I love to knit with those luxury fibers, but lately I have been asking myself: what do I actually know about the origin of these fibers? Nothing really... To rid myself of my own ignorance, I have been particularly drawn to knitting books that talk about where certain fibers come from. I have searched high and low for the right book to capture my attention and finally I have come across it while browsing at String Yarns in NYC. In her book...

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Imagiknit

Thu. September 9th 2010 1am

I cannot leave San Francisco without writing about a place I would frequent very often: yarn shop Imagiknit. This beautiful yarn shop is nestled in between the Mission and the Castro District, on the corner of Sanchez and 18th, right at the bottom of Sanchez Hill. The shop is filled with many different kinds of yarn, truly a heaven to knitters, crocheters and fiber addicts alike. You simply have to visit Imagiknit when you are in San Francisco. The staff is very friendly and helpful and I wonder what they thought of me coming in so frequently! At times, I was at Imagiknit's nearly...

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