Posted in Book Reviews, Fair Isle Patterns, Patchwork on January 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I just managed to take a shot of our picnic lunch before leaving for the ocean yesterday on New Years to bike ride along the coast before running out of battery! The fabric on the outside is from a new Moda line called “Simplicity” (I thought you might like that name Mary Jane!), and I [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Fair Isle Patterns on December 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Look what arrived in the mail today! Traditional Knitting from the Scottish and Irish Isles by Debbie Bliss. Santa placed an order for this way back on December 6th and it finally arrived! I first read about this book at Wendy’s Knits and had it on my wish list at Amazon for over a year. [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns on December 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Eunny’s Ivy League Vest gave me the perfect excuse to give this New England Shetland wool a try. I had been wanting to see if there was another alternative to Jamieson’s of Shetland and Jamieson and Smith. It really bothered me that both yarns would have sections that would thin out. This yarn doesn’t have [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns on December 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m still laughing from the cute little post at Moth Heaven and am wondering if I’ll ever become a stash-a-holic with yarn poop coming out of the back of my car! Mostly my stash is filled with misguided efforts from not knowing any better and hoping that my mistakes will be used up as mittens [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns on December 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Another Debbie Bliss Fair Isle “swirly goodness” to borrow from Pink Berry, I haven’t had this much fun with pink since I was a little girl. Thank you Beata for all your inspiration! Same pattern as below, but this time I took Mary Jane’s advice and left my peerie fix between the snowflakes out and [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns on December 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m curious as to what images are envoked for you when you first take a look at the colors in this hat? I feel as if it would look right at home in a different place and era, circa 1950’s, with a matching ski sweater and bright red scarf (in my dreams). My hands are [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Don’t the colors remind you of peppermint candy cane ice cream? Here I am experimenting with various color combinations, absolutely addicted to color swatching at the moment with more easy to finish fair isle hats. In my excitement, I didn’t have the patience to make the top and bottom half of this one match. I [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns, Vintage Sewing on December 3, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I made another lunch bag for work today with my Amy Butler pattern and some Grand Revival fabrics (see beautiful inspiration here) and realized how much in common they had with the same vintage colors from the Debbie Bliss cashmerino, so my hat in progress gets its own little carry-all instead. I like having something that helps [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Fair Isle Patterns on December 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I thought I’d post a few more photos from my trip to San Francisco. This was my favorite photo from a flower shop on the way back from visiting ImagiKnits which is in an area called The Castro, an older neighborhood that feels like a college town. As I was strolling through the neighborhood I noticed [...]
Posted in Fair Isle Patterns, Lessons Learned!, On the Needles on November 23, 2007 | No Comments »
This project is my ‘first’ Brittish Fair Isle project, resulting from my year long quest to find soft yarn for Fair Isle projects for a warm weather climate. After gaining a bit of confidence with purling in two colors with my mitten project (below), I decided to advance to a whole sweater knitting in flat rows using [...]
