Our booth at the Townsend Fiber Fest. For Stitches, take this and imagine it HUGE. *grin*
See us at Stitches South
Visit KSD this weekend, April 22nd -25th, at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta, GA, for Stitches South, in booth 232.
Mercedes will be there with heaps of yarn in your favorite KSD colorways, and lots of bright new colors, too! The booth will be stocked with beautiful projects to fire up your imagination and set your needles in motion.
Win $50 Gift Certificate!
Stop by our booth (232) this weekend to enter to win a $50 Gift Certificate to the KSD online shop!
See you in Atlanta!
I’ve been dyeing up yarn all day to be sure we have plenty of goodies to bring to Atlanta for Stitches South next week. I’m so excited! I kept piling up fresh yarns until I ran out of room on the cooling racks, and dyed up plenty of skeins of new colorways.
Now on to washing, drying, and reskeining. Whew! I think for now, it’s beer o’ clock.
Quick note, the KSD website is down temporarily (I hope!). I’m
researching the bug and will try to sort it out tonight.
Fixed it! (Obviously, because you can read this now, instead of seeing a pesky error message. Yeah! *fist pump*)
The new issue of Twist Collective is out, and it is chock full of amazing patterns. My want-to-knit list has grown by several projects. I was especially anticipating the release of this new issue because my new Lena pattern is in it! A nice, easy lace infinity scarf, Lena is cast on in the round (on surprisingly short needles, I used a 32″ circular, so no needle wrestling.), and knit in alternating bands of singled and doubled strands of Seacell Merino Fine.
Once you get the lace pattern started, it’s easy conversation-friendly knitting. While I like a good challenge, sometimes it nice to just relax and enjoy the yarn, so this pattern fits the bill, and it helps make it an especially beginner-friendly into to lace stitches.
After it’s bound-off and blocked, Lena grows to a generous 72″ loop, and can be worn all sorts of ways, as seen in the shot above. The model shown has an optional crocheted picot edging, which I admit scared me a bit when I thought about the fact that I would be crocheting 12 feet of edging. But I sat on the couch and went to it, and after one episode of Doctor Who it was complete, no sweat! I think that with the cool Seacell blend yarn and easy-to-follow texture pattern, this will make a perfect vacation-knitting project (or backyard knitting, poolside knitting, you get the idea!), which is exactly what I was aiming for when I started imagining the project.
I’ve listed some Lena kits in the KSD shop, with some suggested pairings to help ease color indecision, or choose your own two colorways for personalized Lena. The PDF pattern is available for purchase through Twist Collective for $5.00.
Now I just need to decide on which colors to pick for my own Lena, probably in blues and greens. Hmm…
Valencia semi-solid, shown on Seacell Merino Fine
I’ve just posted our bright new colorways for spring, and the shop has been updated with new arrivals.
This week, get FREE shipping on all orders to the US and Canada, use coupon code 0J2A1AMRO0PJ at checkout. Code expired 4/9/10.
Ruthie semi-solid, shown on Merino Fine
I couldn’t wait to begin knitting with some of these beauties, so I just cast on for a re-vamp of one of my old scarf patterns, the Petal Edge Scarf (it will be available at the KSD booth at Stitches South later this month) in Mai, an over-the-top super-saturated red-orange that I am completely besotted with.
Mai semi-solid, shown on Merino Fine
