It's Monday and I'm going to talk a little bit about yarn and supplies for our knit-along!YarnWe know that our pattern, Briar Rose, is knit in fingering weight yarn. In the yarn world, this is pretty thin stuff. I like the below picture from KNITFreedom which really gives you a good idea just how much thinner fingering weight is than heavier yarns. What we're looking to use is towards the top of this chart.Image from ... Read more »
Knit-alongs
Vintage sweater knit-along: The winner is…
While we prepare here for what the National Weather Service is calling a "dangerous multifaceted and life threatening winter storm" that's in theory going to dump anywhere from 12-20" of snow on us (yikes!), I'm ready to announce the winning pattern for our vintage sweater knit-along. Drumroll please......With about twice as many people interested in it than any other pattern, the winning vintage pattern for our ... Read more »
Vintage sweater knit-along: Preliminary post #1
This is the first of probably a few preliminary posts for our vintage sweater knit-along! (Never mind the fact that I’m having to write this twice, since I accidentally deleted my draft that I’d spent hours working on. Oh no, we won’t talk about that since it might incite rage in me.)Anyway, I wanted to talk about some of the basics for the knit-along. We’ll be knitting a short-sleeved sweater from a vintage pattern. ... Read more »