Hi, Knitters,
I want to quickly announce that I am off to Vogue Knitting Live this weekend in NYC. I am having two book signings for my new book, Kids' Knitting Workshop. One is Friday night about 5:15pm at StevenBe's booth and the second one is 5:15pm on Saturday night at the Knitty City booth! I hope to see any or all of you there if interested. My books will be sold at the booths, too, during the event.
Thank you for the many wonderful comments for my book and yarn giveaway! I read every single comment and loved your stories of learning and teaching and hoping to teach others how to knit. We all have a story and I enjoyed them all. I have randomly selected 10 winners from the comments pool and the winners are....
kimmin121, stripesandpolkadots, zip022, vermilliongirl, fromkersey, Lynette Larkins, GrAnLu, blondie11, bookboxer1, and VCR!
Congratulations to all of the winners! My book publicist, Breanne, will be in touch with you shortly either via Ravelry or through the email address left in your comment. Arrangements will be made at that time for you to receive your prizes. If your name is listed please be checking your Ravelry messages or emails so you can respond to Breanne.
Today I have a super fun new shawlette design to introduce to you and a fun giveaway (information at the end of the post). You can make this shawlette with ANY 100 gram sock blank or sock/fingering weight skein of yarn.
I knit my new shawlette pattern out of one of Gale's Art's Secret Sock Blanks called, Blue Love.
I am running a special discount price celebration for the week (the pattern is already marked down, no codes necessary). The pattern is on sale for $4.00 starting today Jan. 11 and will go up to $5.00, the regular price, after January 18, 2016.
Click here to go to Gale's Art on Etsy! The Blue Love Sock Blanks are up for pre-order right now if you are interested.
The new pattern is called One Love and here is why....
One sock blank or one skein, one hundred grams and a one row
increase repeat! The word one kept popping up all over the place when I was
thinking about a name for this crescent-shaped shawlette. The shawl is knit in a
Blue Love single sock blank from Gale’s Art. So I combined the two and One Love it is!
We all have a 100 gram sock blank or skein of fingering
weight yarn sitting in our stash. Often times we are not sure what to do with
it besides knitting a pair of socks. Well, I have the perfect solution with the
One Love Shawlette. As the name implies this shawl takes one 100 gram sock blank
or sock skein of yarn. The shawlette
couldn’t be any easier to knit. You can either follow your yarn striping pattern as a
guide or you can use the specific instructions provided to make a shawl like
mine in any type of fingering weight yarn. I’ll share how to do both versions
in the pattern.
Finished size:
15-inches in depth, 60-inch wingspan; finished shawlette weighs 99 grams.
Shape:
Long-shallow crescent-shape
Sock blanks are individual works of art and may be the same
colorway but striping will vary due to the artistic nature of the dyeing.
Yarn Note: Any
100 gram sock blank or fingering/sock weight skein will work fine. Also, any striped,
variegated or tonal yarn will all work great! If you have more or less yardage
you can stop or keep going at any point.
A note on using a sock
blank:
I knit the shawlette straight from the Gale’s Art Secret Sock
Blank - single strand (Gale has double-strand blanks but you'll want the single-strand for a shawl), unraveling as I worked. The yarn was very kinky while I was knitting,
but it smoothed out significantly with a good soak and block when it was
finished. However, some of the unevenness does remain in the final shawl. I
like this appearance and think it makes for a fun watercolor-like fabric. If
you don’t want this look you could unravel the yarn before knitting and make a
skein (with lots of ties) to soak and straighten out before starting the shawl.
After the smooth yarn is dried wind it into a cake or ball and then begin
knitting the shawl. It’s up to you!
Needles: US size
6/4mm, 32-inch circular needle or size to obtain gauge
Gauge: 5.5
stitches per inch in stockinette stitch
Materials:
Yarn needle
Stitch markers
Optional: Scale to weigh yarn in grams for starting the
final edging. If you don’t have a scale you can just estimate.
In the pattern I have provided two options of choice in the pattern.
Option 1: Let the
yarn be your guide. Gale’s Art Sock Blanks, like the one I used in the sample,
are often striped. Instead of following or counting rows, I just changed
sections in order every time the color changed until I had a certain amount of yarn
remaining to finish off the final border (all details are included in the pattern).
Option 2: Row-by-Row
Pattern. I wrote out exactly how many rows/repeats I did of each section,
including a row checklist for your counting convenience, if you’d like a more detailed pattern to follow. Every aspect is written out in full-detail, step-by-step.
In progress photo before blocking.
Photo from Gale's Art
Do you remember the Gale's Art Sock Blank Subscription Club that I gave away a few months ago? Click here to see it.
These three sock blanks would be perfect for a One Love shawlette!!
Today I am so happy to be offering another chance for one lucky winner to win a 3-month Sock Blank Club subscription for February, March and April! For each of the three months you get a new exclusive sock blank in the mail from Gale. The club membership is worth $99 and the sign-ups are running now through January 15, 2016. Click here for the Gale's Art club information. I'll tell you how to enter at the end of the post.
That's a lot of information I know but here's where you get to enter to win a subscription to Gale's Art Sock Blank Club. The photo above shows the three sock blanks you will receive in February, March and April. They are so beautiful, works of art!
Please leave one comment on this blog post to enter to win the 3-month Sock Blank Club subscription. Please leave your Ravelry username or an email address so we can get in touch if you win. Please only click on Publish one time. There is a delay before you will see your comment appear.
Click here for the One Love shawlette pattern!
Remember the shawlette can be knit with ANY 100 gram skein of sock yarn (mine had 463 yards), not only a sock blank.
Good luck if you enter to win! Thank you, as always, for the support.
Let the comments begin!
xo ~ susan
