Feeding my obsession for stitch patterns

Yesterday I walked into the Chapters downtown with my nephew who was looking for books to read on his long flight to Crete.  I had to go wandering into the crafts section and I found this wonderful little book of stitch patterns.  The first 100 pages are about the basics of knitting which would be useful for beginners.  She then classifies the various stitch patterns by Easy, Medium and Difficult within each category (knit and purl, rib, cables,  lace and bobbles,  lace edgings and twisted)   All stitch patterns are charted only which I prefer.

Look forward to seeing some wonderful new creations in my shop; ideas are already buzzing around in my head.

Berroco Comfort Yarn has arrived!

The Berroco Comfort yarn I ordered from Herrschners has arrived.  I wanted to knit this yarn into wonderful hats but seeing it I'm not so sure, it's just gorgeous and soft.  I will probably have fun with it trying different stitch patterns and come up with something gorgeous for sure.  Working with a wonderful yarn helps a lot.

Etsy Treasury

My Tangerine Scarf is part of the Tangerine Schemes Treasury, thanks AllBags.

The Great VeganEtsy Give-Away-Bashful Blues

On Etsy I am a member of the VeganEtsy Team and the team is having a wonderful give-away challenge for the month of April.  You can find all the details here on the VeganEtsy blog : http://veganetsy.blogspot.com/2010/04/great-veganetsy-give-away-bashful-blues.html  

The challenge is to find blue items that have the VeganEtsy Team tag on Etsy and post your answer as a comment on the blog.

The prize is a pack of vegan samples from the team members, lots of wonderful vegan goodies!

The deadline is April 28th so hurry on to participate.

Spring/summer scarves

With the weather slowly warming up, I am enjoying knitting spring/summer scarves.  I love working with lighter yarns like cottons or cotton/viscose and knitting lacey creations.  Right now I am particularly enjoying knitting a simple but gorgeous lace rib.  I already have a few listed in my Etsy shop and am working on other colours.  You can see a detail of the lace rib on the bottom pic.

Impressive commercial

Someone on Ravelry posted this commercial and it is just impressive! It's a commercial for natural gas and I love how everything becomes knit in the house.  Just wanted to share this video with everyone!

http://wimp.com/naturalgas/

La Bobineuse de Laine cones of yarn

Last week I went to La Bobineuse de Laine where I spent 2 hours just loving the fibers they have there.  Of course I did leave with some yarn, well lots of yarn to be honest.  The first 2 pics are cones of yarn I created with the help of the wonderful lady, I must ask her name the next time I go.  I will have so much fun knitting with this yarn; most of it is cotton to knit wonderful summer creations.  I have already started a gorgeous lace scarf.