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Knitting for winter

At left are some of our knit samples for yarns found in the shop. Our cozy Rasta cowl was knit with one skein of Rasta by Malibrigo. Rachel cast on 64 stitches on a 10 mm circulat needle. Knit random rows of knit stitch, purl stitch, and seed stitch until most of the skein is used, making sure to leave enough of a tail to cast off.

Our Spectra scarf is a great design by Steven West. Our sample was knit in Berroco Ultra Alpace fine and Noro Taiyo sock yarn provided the interesting varigated color.

Knitting with mohair

Angel mohair, pattery from diamond luxury collection

Baby Alpaca Sport by Diamond yarn and black mohair

Clapotis scarf, Silk Garden Sock yarn, Baby kid mohair extra

I cord scarf, knit with mohair and Taiyo sock yarn

Our lovely wrap was knit with Angel Mohair by Debbie Bliss. We used 3 balls of the Celadon color..The pattern, # 1402, by Diamond Luxury collection is intended to be used with their Mulberry Merino yarn for a great cool weather wrap.

We used 5 skeins of brown baby alpaca mohair sport by Diamond Luxury collection for our sample of the Shadow Box wrap pattern by Alison Brookbanks. We paired a black mohair along with the alpaca, giving a suble change of color to the project.

Knitting for fall

Topsy Turvy cowl, pattern and mini mochi yarn by Crystal Palace

Lace Ribbon scarf, pattern available from knitty.com, sock yarn from Lana Grossa

pattern by Berroco, 2 skiens of ultra alpaca fine sock yarn

This cozy cowl is a knit in Mini Mochi by Crystal Palace. Topsy Turvy can be found in the free pattern section of their website straw.com. This sampler, knit with 1 50 gram ball, has 3 different stitch patterns and can be worn with either end up.

Our second image is a lovely scarf knit with 2 balls (100grams each) of Lana Grossa Cotton Stretch and a 4.25mm needle. Although a sock yarn, we found it is a great yarn for other projects including this pattern, called Lace Ribbon, provided by knitty.com.

Circular Knitting Machines

I recently acquired an antique circular sock knitting machine in the hopes of knitting socks. Yikes! These are facinating machines, but not as simple as one may think. Originally developed late in the 1800's these machines were used by women to knit socks for the war effort. There were even yarn companies that purchased the finished socks and supplied the knitters with more yarn. From what I have learned, it was not so easy to meet the "quality" required, and my own experience attests to the huge learning curve required.

Things that keep us warm!

Bonbori by Noro, pattern from knitty.com

Baby Alpaca by Diamond Yarn, pattern from knitty.com

Silk Garden Sock yarn, pattern from knitty.com

Noro Silk Garden Yarn, knit into wrist warmers

We have prepared a variey of knitted hat and scarf samples, just in time for the cold weather. The pattern "Sugar on Snow" shown in the first image, is from knitty.com. You can make a hat as we have using 2 balls of Bonbori by Noro and tying the top with a knitted I-cord.

The same pattern was used to make this lovely cowl shown in image two. Here we used one skein of Baby Alpaca Sport by Diamond Yarns. The same pattern, Sugar on Snow by knitty.com was used without the I-cord that was used on the hat.

Knitting with Noro!

Noro Kureyon sock yarn, knit in entrelac pattern

Noro Silk Garden sock yarn, knit into baby blanket

Noro Silk Garden sock yarn, knit into shawl

Noro Keruyon sock yarn knit into scarf, gently felted

Noro yarn is one of our favorites. Here are some of the samples knit from noro yarn, including a number knit from sock yarn. The sarf shown in the first image is an entrelac pattern knit from Kureyon sock yarn, color S185. It is one of our most popular yarns. Wendy knit this sample with a 9 block pattern.

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