2012 Wall Calendar from Interweave!

SQUEEEEE! I’m so excited. I got my copy of the 2012 Interweave Wall Calendar. The one I had from last year is almost used up! 😉

What I love about the calendar… It’s a standard 12×12 size, and the squares are HUGE to write stuff in. But that’s just calendar stuff.

This one is cool. Picture a design board featuring sweaters and all of their probably and possible elements.

January starts out with the advantages of seams, gives you tips and techniques and a drawing to keep people like me who are blonde on track.

Fast forward to July (don’t I wish!) where they explore colorwork and color combinations, tips, techniques and drawings (you know, for me!)

and December closes it all up with zippers, buttons, toggles, hooks and eyes, and again, tips, techniques and pictures. In between there is sleeve details, cable ideas, shoulder treatments… and it’s chock full of colored pictures of some of Interweave’s best work.

Seriously the only thing that could make this calendar any better is if it were on sale! Wait! What??? It is on sale!

Regularly priced at $14.95, now it’s $7.47. I’m not that good at math but that speaks to me as being about 1/2 off.

Don’t know how long it will be on sale so hurry and get over there! HERE!!

Next Pattern:

One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift.

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style.

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills.

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather.

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do.

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall.

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills.

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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