Month: August 2011

I’m going to take the easy way out and just copy some of the text from my announcement email list:

After much ado, Cooperative Press is ready to take pre-orders for my new book, Extreme Double-Knitting: New Adventures in Reversible Colorwork.

For those of you unfamiliar with the book’s content, this is poised to be the go-to reference book for anyone looking to push double-knitting to its limits in his or her own designs. At nearly 200 full-color pages, with over 170 technique illustrations, this book will take you from basic double-knitting through some of the most unusual things that can be done with the technique, with 14 patterns to give you practice in the new techniques. It is my hope that people will take these techniques and use them to begin designing their own “extreme” double-knitting patterns.

If you’re like me, you’ve been eagerly awaiting the day you get your hands on a copy of my book. If you play your cards right, however, you might even be able to get your hands on one before I do! For a limited time, Cooperative Press will be taking pre-orders for the Print + PDF pack at $23.95 plus shipping. Once the books begin shipping, the price will go up to $29.95. So order now, get your book before all your friends, and save some money to boot! This offer is available only to direct customers. Retailers should be in touch with Shannon at Cooperative Press for wholesale pricing.

As soon as I have a print date, I’ll post it up here. For now, however, just rest assured that it’s coming soon.

Today I finished the samples for the hat I’m doing for Artyarns‘ One And One Hats book. I still have to get the pattern done, but most of that is already done too, it’s just a matter of compiling already-written stuff. I’ve had uniformly great feedback from folks at my various knitting groups, both on the yarn and the pattern.

There are two sizes here — the smaller size for an 18-21″ head (so it’d be suitable for older kids up to some adults — and really, are you going to be giving a young kid a hat in cashmere and silk?), and the larger size for a 21-24″ head. The great thing about this particular pattern is that the smaller size is 6 repeats of the pattern worked for 6″ before the decreases, and the larger size is 7 repeats worked for 7″ before the decreases. Neat, eh?

Also, I weighed the remaining yarn after each hat, and there is enough in a pair of 100g skeins to do either hat twice!

See the opposite sides here. The darker sides don’t show the light background as well, but I think under natural light we’ll see a difference.