2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Back to the Blog!

After a long hiatus we are officially back to blogging! This may have something to do with the change in weather (we are entering prime knitting season after all), but who knows! Things that we have missed since the last blog include:

Haven & Liz in Hotsprings, MT.

I visited Haven and we got to knit alone together!

Summer in Alaska and some lovely road trips.

And fall in Fairbanks.

I also published a new pattern called Andromeda, which I can finally start to wear now that winter is coming! Other recent knitting projects include Veera Välimäki's Wanderlust Pullover - it's blocking now and I'll share pics once I get the buttons sewn-on. Can't wait to share more patterns, and pictures of life and new knitting. Sorry again about lack of blogging but we're back at it!

Happy Knitting,
Liz

Class Update

The Powder Eights class at Stix has been moved to March 29th and April 5th.

P8 Class

Well down here Montana way, we're fixin' to give some more classes. We had a very successful Newsprint Cowl class at Stix last week.

The pattern was published again in Tangled Online Magazine, where their focus is bi-craftuality. One of Stix's knitters in residence figured out a brioche crochet stitch, and made a cross-threaded pattern that corresponds with the Newsprint Cowl - the Radicowl.

On March 22nd and 29th, I'll be giving a class on Powder Eights. The first session will include a review of the brioche stitch and an introduction to brioche cabling. The second session will focus almost exclusively on the two pages of decreases. Experience with brioche knitting is required. Call Stix in Bozeman to sign up!

Liz just completed her first Powder Eights in a beautiful indigo color. I covet it.

Flyte

Hey Knit Friends,

I finished and published my newest pattern, Flyte, on ravlery a few days ago!  Flyte is a paneled cabled hat that I’ve been dreaming-up over the past few years.  I’ve been trying to make a cabled hat in which the cables taper to meet at the top of the hat, and I finally worked it out!  The name 'Flyte' is a vague reference to one of my favorite books, "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh.  Flyte is written for a worsted weight yarn and can be made in two different sizes.  Flyte is available for purchase here on ravelry.

Special thanks to Greta for her excellent knitwear-modeling skillz and for tromping through deep snow with me!

xoxo
Liz

Powder Eights

Powder Eights has been published and is available as a Ravelry download! Want to try? This hat has served me well for over two years. Try as I might, I have been unable to knit anything to replace it for winter weather. It's a fairly complicated knit, with over 20 decrease rows, but the cabling is continuous to the top, which was a design feat.

The lovely model in these photos is Mari, author of No Project Left Behind. I'm hoping that she'll be a guest designer here soon. I also have to thank my co-author, Liz, for having done all of the .pdf files for my designs. Would that I had her skills and information!

Happy knitting!

Haven

Aspen Extreme

Heeeyyy Knitter!

The journey began two years ago, with a skein of Malabrigo Chunky and a seriously cold job as a snowboard instructor. The destination? A cabled brioche hat.

I finished the first without ever writing down the decreases, so here I am now, knitting a second Powder 8s. The basic pattern repeat is currently being test knit, and I'm hoping to finish writing out the decreases in the next two days.

What are Powder 8s? Watch and learn:

Look for the pattern just after Valentine's Day.

Knit knit knit,
Haven