Friday, November 11, 2022, Issue 271: It's fall and it's sweater weather!

• Posted on 10 November 2022
• By Susan Wong-Tsang
• Posted in Fall Knitting, Gift Knitting, KAL, November 2022, sweater weather
• 0

Can you believe it? There are only 6 weeks until Christmas...6 weeks or 43 days! what do you have on your needles? Do you have a sweater or are you gift knitting?

It isn't too late...To celebrate my 7 years in business and to thank you, a sale been going on where almost everything has 15% off including clearance until November 14th! Cannot be combined with any other offers. No code is needed!

ANOTHER REMINDER that CLASSES are up on the website! Unfortunately, the Saturday classes that were to start tomorrow - Saturday, November 12 have been canceled! Please note some changes to dates and format.

Materials for all projects are available at the shop and can be purchased before class. Come just a bit early so you have time to check out all the colours and give all the yarn a squeeze.

The next Rigid Heddle Weaving Workshop will be Sunday, November 20th from 10am to 4 pm. Bring your lunch and we will weave a scarf!

Want to learn how to do mosaic knitting starting with Amy Christoffers Pressed Flowers Shawl? This class has been rescheduled to Wednesday nights for 3 sessions, Nov 23, 30 and December 14 from 7-9 pm.

Join in the sixth year of Ambah’s Festive KAL 2022!

Join us in a fun December knit-a-long.

ELIGIBLE PATTERNS
This year participants may choose between all 19 of Ambah’s especially designed patterns to knit up during the KAL;
(2 new patterns to come in November 2022)

See the eligible Ambah’s Festive KAL 2022 patterns here.

How to join in?
Join us in the Pre-KAL thread For pre-KAL chat and planning.
Pick a pattern Which of Ambah’s 18 advent patterns will you make this year?
Next: Order an Advent Kit or a DK Advent Kit and wait for it to arrive. Or make your own, do some stash diving, add some extra mini skeins, ask your knitty friends for their leftovers - team up and create a kit among yourselves.

December 1: Cast on! Join the daily KAL threads for each festive day from December 1 to December 31.
Post your KAL pictures in the thread: show us your Daily yarn/gift, show us your Festive Ambah WIP and join in the chat. Daily prizes will be drawn from 1 - 24 December.

Once the Festive December period is over this thread will open up for the duration of the KAL. Continue here in this manner until February 10, 2022. Then post your finished project/s in the FO thread to be eligible for even more prizes!

• Wait 11 months and do it all over again! (with new patterns in 2023)

For 24 days in December, SweetGeorgia will immerse you in a festive season filled with colour, delight and woolly lightness with their 2022 Advent sets!

• Fingering-weight base features 15 individually wrapped mini-skeins of Tough Love Sock and CashLuxe Spark, a total of 788 yds / 720 m, a lovely array of accessories and surprises, one knit shawl pattern by Tabetha Hedrick and one crochet shawl pattern by Ruth Nguyen. Both patterns are laid out in a twenty-four-day schedule.
• Spinning base features 15 individually wrapped fibres of various fibres, a total of 6.5 oz / 184 g and a lovely array of accessories and surprises.

Each Advent 2022 set offers a luxuriant treat of self-care, beauty, fibre-fun and an ALL-Access 1 month subscription to the School of SweetGeorgia (for new members only). Order your SweetGeorgia Advent 2022 set today to make sure you get yours before December 1st!

Helen Stewart’s Knitvent 2022 is a collection of six accessory patterns for you to discover and knit, one by one. It’s all about gifts, surprises and holiday knitting to delight you and the lucky folks on your knitworthy list! This year is the 10th anniversary of the Curious Handmade Knitvent tradition, and this collection captures the eclectic joy of bits and pieces, treasured odds and ends, special scraps and the little things we love to stash away.

For Knitvent number 10, she wanted to do something a little different. Every year since 2017, the “scrappy” pattern has been the star of each Knitvent. It’s always the biggest project in the collection, designed to be made out of 24 mini skeins, whether pulled from your stash or a curated festive set from an indie dyer. This year, she had so much fun designing that project that all she wanted to do was make more projects out of minis.

And she decided on the spot that the whole collection would be in mini skeins.

So whether you’re a stash diver who loves to forage for beautiful scraps…

Or if you’ve got a precious set of minis but aren’t in the mood to commit to a giant project….

Or if you just want to knit a series of gorgeous gifts with any yarn that steals your heart…

You’re going to have a lot of fun this Knitvent.

Knitvent is a cross between a holiday countdown and a mystery knit along. The experience of getting a secret knitting pattern in your inbox each week brings back the childhood joy of surprises. It’s all about anticipation, surprise, and homemade gifts you can make for yourself and your loved ones…even if you’ve left it until almost the last minute.

Over the course of five festive weeks, you will receive a series of secret mystery knitting patterns, each designed to be a quick and satisfying knit. There’s a strong community aspect with a busy knitalong and lovely prizes, bustling chat threads on Ravelry and tons of inspiration on Instagram with the hashtag #knitvent2022

FOs and WIPs

I have been working exclusively on my Easy V by Caitlin Hunter this week. Last week, I decided to knit the sleeves with my cake of hand spun instead of knitting the bottom ribbed hem first. I wanted to make sure that I knit both sleeves using the same cake of finished hand spun.

I knit both sleeves to round 18 of the sleeve chart to see if I had enough yarn to finish the chart. This is the photo that I took on Sunday when I got to that point.

I had short circulars on both sleeves so that I could finish the sleeve chart on both sleeves. Turns out I did have enough. Instead of working 2 inches of ribbing on my sleeves, I worked the same number of rounds as there was for the yoke rib before ending with 2 knit rounds. I didn't use a loose bind off but worked a normal bind off.

I still have enough for a few more rounds of ribbing. I will need to spin and then ply more hand spun before i can finish the hem ribbing but I love this one already!

KNIT GROUP AND GALLERY

Here’s what’s currently going on:

The newest Knit-Alongs are:

Caitlin Hunter (Boyland Knitworks) KAL. Choose from the Ninilchik Swoncho, the Koivua or Koivua Light or any pattern by Caitlin;

and the Knit Any Project: our everlasting knit-along to encourage and support you to knit between now and December 31st.

Don’t forget to post a pic to the finished object (FO) thread whenever you finish a project during the Knit-Along so that you will be included in the next draw! We will also add the option of posting your finished project to Instagram using the #sue2knitskal or #sue2knitscaitlinhunterkal so that I can find and see them!

Claudia (@cgriffs01) finished this fabulous cabled sweater for her husband! Pattern is Stone Cables / Drops 224-4 from Drops Design

Debbie (debsnubs) finished her Rhinebeck Shawl 2022 by Vanessa Coscarelli Black. Yarn is Berroco Vintage DK.

Leslie (lcritch) finished this fingering weight version of Groovy by Annie Baker

Christina (@thebusyknitter) knit her two boys each a new hat, a baby hat and crocheted small, medium and large pumpkins!

Marie (thecatsmom) finished Chouette by Ekaterina Filippova-Blanchard.

Veronica (xov.knits) has her #chevishbeanie out for testing. She knit this one with Malabrigo Rasta.

Sandi (sandima) test knit this simple snarf scarf for Stacy Wilkinson.

Debbie (swifty849) finished this warm Icelandic Sweater from All Good Great. Yarn is Istex Lettlopi.

Happy Friday, Happy Knitting, Crocheting and Crafting! Keep calm and keep on knitting and making!