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#wkipwithme

[Translate] Just one more sleep until the WKIP day event! Yes, we’ll be downtown by the Olympic Torch from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm for 3 hours of solid knitting/crocheting fun!! IN PUBLIC!!!! Hopefully you’re coming! If you are, I’d love it if you could let me know at either of these links below … WKIP Close Knit Community Close Knit Community Facebook If we get 75 people there, I will personally donate a sweaters’ worth of yarn as a giveaway! That’s right, 10 x 100g skeins of worsted weight yarn! It’s more than enough for a sweater for […]

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It’s Time! …

[Translate] For what you ask? Well, for a lot of things! The first and most important is to let you know about the new look of my website. Okay, yeah, I guess you’ve seen it already. Actually, if you followed a link to this post directly, then you might not have. So after you read this one, click on the logo at the top and have a look around. I’d love any feedback on what you think – all comments are appreciated and I will use them to fine tune things. 🙂 It seems like I couldn’t have timed […]

It’s a Party …

[Translate] … And you’re invited!! Tomorrow is International Knit In Public Day, even though us seasoned knitters don’t need a reason to flash our sticks in public! And yes, crocheters are welcome too!  It doesn’t matter if you’re shy or (k)not though, as tomorrow you’ve been given license to get out and show the world your stitches!! There will be gatherings all over the world as knitters congregate en masse and do what they like doing best – a knit here, a purl there, even a YO or two. I of course will be doing some serious cables as […]

Hmmmmm….

[Translate] I’ve been looking at the comments from the current VKAL I have going and I’ve noticed 2 things … 1) The people doing it are having a great time and really enjoying it. They like the yarn, the color choices, and the pattern and are saying this double knitting thing is awesome! They’re surprised at how easy it is and are wondering why they haven’t done it before! 2) A lot of people NOT doing it are liking the pattern and wishing they could do it too! Number 1 is great, and gives me a very warm and […]

VKAL!!

[Translate] What’s a VKAL you ask? Well, it’s a VIDEO Knit-A-Long! What’s a VIDEO Knit-A-Long you ask? It’s a Knit-A-Long with video support – a lot of video support! Think of it as getting a bunch of lessons AND a pattern AND giveaways and FUN! We’re going to be stating a Knit-A-Long for the Barrington 5.0. I know, the 4.0 isn’t even out yet! It will be soon, but I wanted to spread the news about this VKAL now, to get things ready for it’s launch right after Stitches West! So here’s the plan … the Barrington 5.0 is […]