Yarn Gallery Blog

I hope everyone takes a minute to look (way) below and check out David Ritz’s latest creation and Jennifer Gensemer’s lovely gift for her sister.  What challenges we take on, and doesn’t it keep the knitting fun?  David’s Cobblestone pullover is a favorite on Ravelry.  It was designed by Jared Flood, who writes the Brooklyn Tweed blog, one of the best knitting blogs around.  I also heard about the Cobblestone on David Reidy’s podcast, Sticks and String, a weekly audio blog from Australia that is incredibly enjoyable.  I download 3 or 4 episodes at a time since I don’t have time to listen every week, but that’s okay.  When I get to listen to several in one sitting, I feel like I’ve just have a nice catch-up visit with a good friend.

Jennifer’s sweater was in Vogue Knitting last summer – I fell in love immediately and went to it, and had a terrible time with the neckline and shoulder shaping.  Jennifer waited a bit and, as she said in her post, found a lot of help on VK’s site.  We still have a couple issues of the magazine in the shop if she has piqued your interest and if you already have it, here is the link to the errata page where you can download the shaping suggestions.

It’s a brilliant, breezy, cold day out there and the dogs are hankering to be out in it, so let me get on with all these great projects I have to show you.  Unfortunately, my website is being contrary and I’m just sick of the clunky interface, so I’m going to Flickr and post them individually.  Very shortly I’m going to learn how to do this from my BlackBerry so I can update this blog more frequently with photos, and then when I sit down to write, I can just write to you all instead of worrying with downloading, uploading, photoshopping, and all that.  There’s just got to be a simpler way!  (That’s my motto for life in general for the coming year – simplify!)

There’s a correction to the afghan classes listed on the Class page on the website.  If you’re interested, check it out. We’re meeting this week to talk about summer classes – how about a nice complex Aran sweater to knit along with?  Hmmm, what did I just say about simplifying?  I’m sticking to that for summer knitting, but for fall, (which, let’s face it, has to be started in the summer) something complicated seems just right.  We’ll explore the possibilities!

See you soon…

Trish

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Loved this project, it really flowed off the needles. All in one piece, in Classic Elite’s bulky organic cotton, it’s soft and stylish and works up quickly to boot!

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Alice finished this cropped little number just in time! Her children and grandchildren visited from down south to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. The adorable little peanut who will be wearing this shrug and her big brother visited the shop this weekend.

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Peggy took janet’s Cuzco Wrap class and came in to show us the finished version. Doesn’t she look great? The wrap, the finishing, the blocking – all done to perfection!

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Tanji Terrell is always in style, and agreed to model this tee for us. She looks wonderful in the ribbed tee, knitted in Classic Elite’s luxe Cotton Bamboo. And has decided to knit her own!