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:

As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells, so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

[Photo: Knit Picks]

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