Month: January 2012

Spring Workshops begin soon!

It’s probably news to my neighbors in the northeast who’ve just had their first winter snow (not counting that freak thing over Halloween weekend), but it’s Spring! Well, at least it’s the beginning of Spring workshops. That’s right, folks, I’m starting my travels this weekend and I’m not going to stop until everyone in the northeast knows how to double-knit!

Well, OK, it’s not quite as ambitious as all that, but if you’d like to take a workshop in double-knitting with me and you live somewhere in the Northeast, check this out:

  • Saturday Jan 28th – Intro to Double-Knitting workshop at Fresh Purls in Providence, RI (SOLD OUT)
  • Sunday, Jan 29th – New Adventures in two-color Double-Knitting workshop at Fresh Purls in Providence, RI (SOLD OUT)
  • Saturday, Feb 4th – Intro to Double-Knitting workshop at Seed Stitch in Salem, MA
  • Sunday, Feb 5th – New Adventures in two-color Double-Knitting workshop at Seed Stitch in Salem, MA
  • Saturday, Feb 11th – Intro to Double-Knitting workshop at Webs in Northampton, MA (SOLD OUT)
  • Sunday, Feb 12th – New Adventures in two-color Double-Knitting workshop at Webs in Northampton, MA (SOLD OUT)
  • Saturday, Feb 18th – Intro to Double-Knitting workshop at Knitty City in New York, NY
  • Sunday, Feb 19th – New Adventures in two-color Double-Knitting workshop at Knitty City in New York, NY
  • Saturday, March 3rd – Intro to Double-Knitting workshop at Mind’s Eye Yarns in Cambridge, MA
  • Sunday, March 4th – New Adventures in two-color Double-Knitting workshop at Mind’s Eye Yarns in Cambridge, MA
  • Friday-Sunday, March 9-11 FIBERCAMP BOSTON 2012. I’ll be running a workshop or two here.
  • Saturday, March 17th – Intro to Double-Knitting workshop at Mind’s Eye Yarns in Cambridge, MA
  • Sunday, March 18th – New Adventures in multi-color Double-Knitting workshop at Mind’s Eye Yarns in Cambridge, MA
  • Saturday, March 24th – Intro to Double-Knitting workshop at Gather Here in Cambridge, MA
  • Sunday, March 25th – New Adventures in two-color Double-Knitting workshop at Gather Here in Cambridge, MA

Want to get in on the sold-out workshops? You should have kept an eye on my Calendar of Events! But to the best of my knowledge both sold-out venues are keeping a wait-list and we’ll probably schedule new workshops at both venues if the demand is high enough.

Want to get me to teach at some other venue? I’m still scheduling for weekends April and beyond. Email me at doubleknitting at gmail dot com and we’ll talk.

52 Pickup pattern up for sale on Ravelry

It’s been about 7 months since I started this project. Much of the pattern had already been designed even then, but I couldn’t release the pattern until I had a sample — and the sample was going to take months to make. Consider that I have a day-job, and given my weekly time constraints I was able to get a single card repeat (one of 18) done each week. If I’d been able to work on it non-stop, it would have taken 4.5 months to finish. But also consider that my book came out in October — so I was working on this project at the same time as I was finalizing my book. I also had several other projects going at the same time, some of which have had progress made on them and some of which have not. So it’s taken more than 4.5 months to finish it.

This is made from Regia 4-ply; I was really hoping to get through it with 3 skeins of white and 2 skeins each of red and black. But I ran out of black and white within a few repeats of the end, so that hope was dashed. The red I ran out of less than 10 rows from the end — so in the end it’s 4 skeins of white and 3 skeins each of red and black — but there’s still plenty left of all three (especially the red). It turns out that there’s less red than black in the scarf, and I was at a loss to understand why, since the backs of the cards are almost exactly equal in all 3 colors, and there are the same number of red and black cards. But someone astutely observed that the hearts and diamonds don’t take up as many stitches as the clubs and spades. Of course! It’s so obvious once someone figures it out.

But you’re probably interested in knowing where to get yourself one. I’m willing to take on knitting another one for the right person who can afford a high 4-figure price for it, but until that person comes along you’re just going to have to knit it yourself. I’ve put it up for sale on Ravelry at $14. I know it’s a high price for a pattern, but it’s 115 pages long and I’ve already told you how long it took me to make it. Rest assured, you don’t need all 115 pages in any given project, and you only need to print off 3 at a time. There is no plan to make this available in print form — it’s just too long as a single pattern to be distributed any way other than digitally.

Fallingblox at VKL!

I’m a little behind in posting this, but if you’re already planning on going to Vogue Knitting Live this weekend in NYC, I’ll be there signing books on Saturday at the Bijou Basin Ranch booth (2108/2110) at 11am and at the Knitty City Booth (2301-2307) at 2pm.

I’ll be at the show informally the rest of Saturday and all day Sunday, if you want to catch up with me. I’ll be found hanging around the Bijou Basin Ranch booth, working on my Parallax 0.5 scarf and probably sporting my completed 52 Pickup scarf (keep an eye on this space for the pattern soon).