{"id":519,"date":"2013-04-05T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fallingblox.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2013-04-05T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:17:28","slug":"willow-yarns-and-craftsy-and-lucy-neatby-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Willow Yarns and Craftsy and Lucy Neatby, oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my Spring classes have been going wonderfully so far, and I&#8217;ve gotten to some great new shops which I hope I&#8217;ll be visiting again in the future! Thanks to the good folks from Montpelier, VT, York, ME, and Mt Holly, NJ for your hospitality and enthusiasm! I&#8217;ve gotten in a bunch of good knitting time while in transit, and I thought you might like to see the fruits of my labors.<\/p>\n<p>But first, I wanted to mention a change in schedule &#8212; I&#8217;m going down to Glen Burnie, MD (right outside of Baltimore, but you probably already know that if you can make it there for a class) in a couple of weeks, and teaching at the <a href=\"http:\/\/knittingboutique.com\" target=\"_blank\">Knitting Boutique<\/a>. We decided to run my full complement of workshops there &#8212; an intro, a two-color advanced workshop and a three-color advanced workshop. The three-color advanced workshop is one of my favorites to teach, and it&#8217;s happening on Sunday, April 21. The intro and 2-color advanced workshops still have space and are running on April 20th. You should come if you&#8217;re in the area and free!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Shadow-Boxes-Hat-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"522\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/?attachment_id=522\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Shadow-Boxes-Hat-1.jpg?fit=880%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"880,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NEX-6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1364681480&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;19&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shadow Boxes Hat 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Shadow-Boxes-Hat-1.jpg?fit=206%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Shadow-Boxes-Hat-1.jpg?fit=660%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-522\" alt=\"Shadow Boxes Hat 1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Shadow-Boxes-Hat-1.jpg?resize=206%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Shadow-Boxes-Hat-1.jpg?resize=206%2C300&amp;ssl=1 206w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Shadow-Boxes-Hat-1.jpg?resize=704%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 704w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Shadow-Boxes-Hat-1.jpg?resize=103%2C150&amp;ssl=1 103w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Shadow-Boxes-Hat-1.jpg?w=880&amp;ssl=1 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a>Recently off the needles is this shadow-box hat, which is a two-color modification of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/falling-blocks-hat\" target=\"_blank\">Falling Blocks<\/a> hat. Get <a href=\"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Shadow-Boxes-Hat-2.jpg\">another view of the inside here<\/a>. But where can I get the pattern for that, you ask? This will only be available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willowyarns.com\/product.aspx?pid=177582\" target=\"_blank\">Willow Yarns Colorwork Club<\/a>, where it&#8217;s Pattern #3! The first pattern is already up &#8212; an elegant stranded hat with cable motifs &#8212; and the second, a pair of stranded mittens with corrugated rib cuffs and Eastern thumb gussets, is going live on April 15th. After that, there&#8217;ll be a basic double-knit hat, then a scarf in intarsia and duplicate-stitch, a cowl in stranded inc\/dec colorwork, and finally a full-size double-knit shawl. This Club works in an unusual but smart way &#8212; because each pattern takes a different amount of yarn, it&#8217;d be difficult to market it with patterns plus yarn for a single price. Instead, they sell access to the club which gets you access to the patterns for $19.99, and discount your choice of yarn when you start each pattern. Stay tuned and I&#8217;ll post some of the other patterns as soon as I&#8217;ve got good photos.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, the Craftsy class is going really well &#8212; I&#8217;ve been averaging about 1000 students per month, although it&#8217;s slowing down now. I wanted to mention that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsy.com\/ext\/AlasdairPostQuinn_holiday\" target=\"_blank\">Craftsy Spring Sale<\/a> is on now until Monday. There&#8217;s a different selection of discounted classes each day, so keep coming back and trying again if you don&#8217;t see the one you want. I think mine is on today (Friday) but if you miss it, you can always use my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsy.com\/doubleknit\" target=\"_blank\">permanent 50% off discount code<\/a>. Also, if you&#8217;re into double-knitting or haven&#8217;t been living under a rock in the last decade, you&#8217;ve probably heard of Lucy Neatby. She&#8217;s got<a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsy.com\/ext\/APQFoundationsDoubleKnit25\" target=\"_blank\"> a class on Craftsy in double-knitting<\/a> as well! Hers is mostly on the tubular style, with a little colorwork thrown in at the end. She takes a different approach and I think her class would be an ideal one to start with and then move into my more advanced topics. Or, if you&#8217;ve already taken my class, take hers as well to gain a deeper understanding of the foundations.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for keeping up and keep me in your RSS feed so you don&#8217;t have to keep checking back for my very infrequent posts!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my Spring classes have been going wonderfully so far, and I&#8217;ve gotten to some great new shops which I hope I&#8217;ll be visiting again in the future! Thanks to the good folks from Montpelier, VT, York, ME, and Mt Holly, NJ for your hospitality and enthusiasm! I&#8217;ve gotten in a bunch of good knitting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/?p=519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Willow Yarns and Craftsy and Lucy Neatby, oh my!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-double-knitting","category-knitting","category-workshops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eKU9-8n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}