Xanthophyll
Xanthophyll socks are live, and the pattern is here! To celebrate their release, the folks at Shalimar Yarns have kindly offered to donate a skein of the lovely Zoe Sock yarn I used to make them to one lucky reader. To have a chance to win, just go over to their website, find your favorite color of the Zoe Sock yarn, and leave the name of it in the comments. You can leave other stuff too of course (I find reading comments strangely entertaining) but you have to leave a color name to win. I'll leave the comments open until [...]
The Sun Will Come Out…
Or rather The Boy will come home while the sun has come out. For that unusual confluence of events is really all that is standing in the way of releasing the Xanthophyll socks. They'll be out tomorrow morning! Just as exciting, the marvelous folks over at Shalimar Yarns have agreed to donate a skein of the Zoe Sock in Sapote (the yarn I used to make the socks) to a lucky reader. I'll post the details tomorrow, but it will be another of the 'leave a comment, get a chance to win' sort of things. The next release will be [...]
Colophon
I got overly ambitious and went ahead and released these early! These are simple and fun fingerless mitts designed to use up leftover bits of sock yarn. The airy pattern makes the most of limited quantities of yarn, and the ribbing makes for a very stretchy finished product. These are prefect for gift knitting! The pattern is for sale here, but until the end of the month (11:59 pm eastern time September 30th 2009) it will also be available for free if you buy another of my patterns! To claim it, just buy another pattern and forward a copy of [...]
Scattershot
The last few days have seen lots of knitting and lots of testing but little actual tangible progress. The Slalom mitts are finished, the pattern is tested, and I will take pictures and release the pattern as soon as the sun comes out. The Xanthophyll socks are in a similar state, though their release requires (the much more daunting task of) getting The Boy home and in them during daylight hours. Both should likely go live sometime later this week. I will be doing another yarn giveaway with the release of Xanthophyll, this time in conjunction with Shalimar Yarns who [...]
Not Socks
Heresy I know, but very occasionally I do knit something other than socks. Don't worry, I'm not straying too far afield this time. Often, when knitting socks, there is a little nugget of yarn leftover when you're finished. It's not really enough to make another sock, but it's far too much to throw away. Eventually (surprisingly quickly if we're being honest), you can amass quite a collection of these little balls of color. Some people turn them into marvelous blankets or other gigantic projects. I haven't the patience. Some people turn them into seriously colorful socks. I'm too lazy to [...]
Results!
Wow, you guys like yarn! The site has been up for about six months and I had almost as many comments on the yarn giveaway post as on all the others put together. I won't keep you in suspense, the results, as generated by the random number generator on random.org is Ellen at number 31. I will send you an email today to get your address and will have the package in the mail tomorrow or the next day. This has been fun, I'll have to see if I can do more of these yarn giveaways in the future. The [...]
Yarn Giveaway!
Bines is live! To celebrate I'm having a giveaway. The Schaefer Yarn Company has graciously donated a skein of their lovely Heather yarn in Dian Fossey (that's the yarn I knit them in, just to be clear), and I'm giving away a copy of the pattern (or a copy of a different pattern if that's what the winner would prefer). If you'd like a chance to win the yarn and pattern, just leave a comment on this post. I will leave comments open till Monday evening. On Tuesday I'll randomly pick one person from the comments and contact them to [...]
Upcoming Goodness
The pattern for Bines is finished, and I will be releasing it tomorrow. Bines was knit with one of the yarns that Schaefer gave me in return for a pattern I designed for them. When they saw Bines, they liked them, so this pattern will be getting added to their library as well. To celebrate the pattern release I'm having a little give away. The folks at Schaefer have graciously offered to provide a skein of their Heather yarn in the color Dian Fossey (the same color and yarn I used to make the original socks) to one of my [...]
Now with More Knitting
It has been a shamefully long time since I put up a picture of a new knitting project. So, without further ado, the newest socks: They are called Xanthophyll and are knit with the lovely Zoe Sock from Shalimar Yarns in the color Sapote. This is one of the yarns I got at Sock Summit in exchange for a design. Zoe is a nice crisp merino and is a treat to work with. The skein has a generous 450 yards, and yellow is The Boy's favorite color, so it seemed obvious that this yarn should turn into socks for him. [...]
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