Knitting another cardigan for myself. It's from the Need A Plus Cardigan? book . I'm really happy with the Twist Panel. It's coming out very well.

I'm almost to the great Divide. Yay. I'm almost sure I'm going to make cap sleeves since I don't think I have quite enough wool. But vests are great aren't they?

I'm doing the final check on the un-named vest. It's going to be finished soon. Again I'm looking at the buttons and working myself up to sewing them on. I don't know why that's such a big deal for me. Do you have one operation (that's sounds scary) in every garment that gets you every time?
-Deb

Phew, a busy, busy week. The weekend before this we were at the K-W Knitters Fair. We had a good time and talked to lots of knitters, which is always fun. Did any of you go to it? Did you get to hear Stephanie Pearl-McPhee talk?

Last weekend we ran a show for the knitting industry called KnitTrade http://www.knittrade.com. Store owners come to this show to buy for their store. I hope, if you're in Ontario, that you notice some new product in your local yarn store this week.

Vendors are getting ready. And yes we hold it in a curling rink . . . before the ice goes in, of course. It was a good day.
Deb

Happy New Year everyone. It's a new knitting season. Holidays are over and the calendar is filling up. I have been knitting away on my many projects and not making a huge amount of head-way on any one but a little on each is progress, right?! At lease I keep telling myself that.

The new project is always the most fun. This is the shawl I am working on with the 2 different fingering yarns dyed in the same dye bath.

 Each yarn takes up the dye differently. I'd like to try 3 different yarns and see what would happen then. Maybe 4, 5 or 6 different yarns? Too much? Must not get carried away!
-Deb

Once again, too many projects on the go.

The sun is coming through the leaves of my maple tree onto the vest I'm just finishing. Now I have to go over the pattern a couple more times, oh and get some buttons.

The lace pattern down the side came out very nicely. This is knit in Shelridge Farm W4 .

This one is almost done. It's the Lace Frock with cap sleeves from the Need A Plus Cardigan? book . We've started a Debs Need A Plus Cardigan KAL if you want to join us and knit a cardigan with lots of help along the way. Oh, and this is also in Shelridge Farm W4. I love it.

This is next in line. I'm going to make a shawl in two yarns which Lyn dyed in the same dye bath.

As you can see they took the dye differently. I'm going to try garter stitch stripes and see how that looks. Could be interesting or a disaster, fun, fun, fun.

There is the baby cardigan from the last post too. I can't forget that one. Also I have a pair of socks almost done somewhere around here. And a scarf I started, just to knit on when I have a spare moment, ha, ha. Does this sound familiar? Tell me I'm not going crazy!
-Deb

I'm trying out our new yarn Saucon Fingering in Canada (Saucon Sock in the U.S.). It's a blend of cotton/acrylic/nylon. It's making a terrific baby sweater from the Need A Baby Cardigan? book.

The Twist pattern shows up really well.

I can think of several more projects I would love to do in this crisp fingering yarn. Have you used  a fingering weight yarn for sweaters?
-Deb

I had a lovely class at Yarn Forward and Sew-On in Ottawa, ON last Saturday. The knitters still look undaunted after a long day of working top down increases and patterning. They are holding the beginning of their second cardigan of the day. What a terrific group.

A brave group of knitters tackled this challenging class and did Fantastic!
Thanks everyone.

We're shipping!

The paper version of our new book, Need a PLUS Cardigan?, has arrived and we're just finishing up shipping all the advance orders. A really large shipment went down to the US this week for our US distributors.

The "mobile-friendly" eBook version has also now been posted on the Patternfish and here's a direct link if you were waiting for that to be available: http://www.patternfish.com/patterns/12076 . I've tested it on my iPad, my Kobo reader and my android phone so I'm hopeful it will work on most mobile devices (frankly I was astonished at how readable the book was on my phone).
Cheers
Lyn