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!!

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The other day I saw a post from Pinterest about trends for summer and it said one of them was “cultivating whimsy.”

Well, I don’t know where Pinterest has been all this time, but we’ve been cultivating whimsy here at Craft Gossip for a long time. I love sharing projects that are a little different, things that make you smile when you see them, and will make you smile when you knit them and wear them or use them.

Such it is with the Tutti Frutti tee knitting pattern from Bea Creative Knits.

This cute little baby tee is worked top down in the round with contiguous shoulder construction to shape the sleeve caps. There are short rows for the neckline and folded hems with picot edging at the hemline, neckline and edges of the sleeves.

All of this would be great on its own, but then there’s the addition of a super cute fruit icon, which is added with duplicate stitch. There are a lot of options, including strawberry, banana, orange, cherries, watermelon, lemon, blueberries, kiwi, peach, dragon fruit, apple and pear, so it’s likely you can add on your favorite fruit.

It is offered in eight sizes, to fit a bust measurement ranging from 28-30 inches (71-76 cm) to 56-58 inches (142-147 cm). The design is meant to be worn with around 6.3 inches/16 cm of negative ease, but you can choose the fit you prefer. There’s also optional bust and waist shaping included in the pattern if you want to make it even curvier.

This is considered an advanced beginner or intermediate project because of all the skills involved, but it’s sure to be a lot of fun even if some of these techniques are new to you.

Grab a copy of the pattern for yourself form Bea Creative Knits on Etsy.

[Photo: Bea Creative Knits]

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