Yarn Gallery Blog

Two days off and nothing accomplished!  Unlike Dave Ritz, whose latest and greatest are below this post.  I love the sweater he made for himself – the pattern was translated from German and was a bit mysterious but you can see how well perseverance pays off.  And that baby gansey is just too precious, check out the underarm gussets, love it!

I actually did finish a sweater

and get a lot done on another.  However, I should be spending time on other things, but – oh, well, if anyone knows how that sentence ends, the people who read this blog do. ‘Tis the season to be knitting, and that’s that.

I just added two new classes to the Class page on the website. Karen Walter is teaching both of them, a Fair-Isle tam which you saw a couple posts ago   and these cute little fingerless mitts.  She made them in the Fibre Company’s Canopy, such a beautiful yarn to work with.

Okay, I’ve got to get a move on here or the boys won’t get their walk and I won’t have time to do my nails, which are getting to Howard Hughes length and must be dealt with! I can barely type – I keep hitting 2 keys at once.

Here is a beautiful sweater knit by Billie Beadle from a Debbie Bliss design in Luxury Donegal Tweed.  It’s absolutely beautiful and she loves it, but admits there was a lot of sewing up to do to put all the blocks and strips together.  Worth it, now that it’s done!

This is a top-down sweater that Jettie Hunt is working on in my favorite Debbie Bliss yarn, Cathay (of course, discontinued!).  She got the design from Dave Ritz and it’s turning out great in this wonderful and sophisticated color:

Amy Wall and her mom were in for our Top-Down sweater class that just started, and brought in some goodies.  Here is her version of Chris Bylsma’s Making Waves bag:

And this is her rendition of our Plain and Fancy scarf.  Both turned out so well!

Lynne Nagle was in to start her crocheted dishcloth series and brough in a couple of neat show-and-tells.  Here is a crocheted sock in Zauberball:

This is a bag she’s test-crocheting for the designer in Silk Garden.  I can’t wait to see it finished:

And she’s wearing this “easy” sweater that I hope she’ll teach this winter:

She’s making a dressed-up version in black – we’ll see that soon, I hope!

Got to run – see you soon!

Trish