Pattern: Magic Friends (click here for Ravelry link) from Knitter’s Stash, September 2001, Interweave Press This versatile pattern is for a simple double-knitted toy that can become a bear, a cat, or a bunny — and anything else you can think of, probably — with a few changes in the features. My purple bear is…
Category: IMAGINE
Inspiration & Ideas
Books, Sites, Mags, Vintage Knitting
Vintage Knitting: 170 Years of Patterns for Downloading
The University of Southhampton has put nearly 300 books from its Knitting Reference Library online! The Knitting Reference Library (KRL) includes the published works collected by Montse Stanley, Richard Rutt and Jane Waller. These comprise books, exhibition catalogues, knitting patterns, journals and magazines. The material dates from 1840 to 2012. I’m already in love with…
Fashion, Style & Fit, Vintage Knitting
Vintage Patterns for Classic Style
I love, love, LOVE old knitting books. Old VKs are a fave, but I’ll thumb through just about anything. (And I have the overflowing bookshelf in my studio to prove it.) Often you can find a stitch pattern, a silhouette, or a detail that will spark an idea. Also, looking at vintage styles is a…
Designing, Patterns, Vintage Knitting
New Pattern Release: Shells ‘n’ Waves Socks
Click here to go to Ravelry and get the pattern! Ok, so maybe it’s not exactly “new”. But it is by “popular demand”! These socks were originally designed for Nellie’s Never Enough Sock Club, around 2010. I recently got an email from a knitter who made these socks before and wants to make them again,…
Fashion, Style & Fit, PL: Paloma Tee
Paloma Tee, part 2 – fixing the yoke
So, I continued merrily knitting my way around and around the yoke, down to the point where it gets divided up for the sleeves and bodice. And here is where it gets kind of weird and sort of inexplicable. At least, I can’t explain it. Well, I can explain what I did — but I…