A Darn Pretty Drawing For A Darn Good Cause!

Each year The Compass School, an independent school for grades 7-12 in Southern Vermont, takes its Junior class on a two week service trip to South America. Every student goes, whether the family can afford the trip or not. And every student performs valuable service work in the communities they visit!

To help them raise much needed funds this year (every student gets to go, whether the families can afford the trip or not), we have donated a 5 inch set, US 4 through US 11 (yes, 11!) This set is crafted from an as-yet-unavailable pattern, Tortoise, and comes with four cables, four stops, and a russet case signed by Tom – Set #1200!

To support this amazing program at this amazing school, tickets can be purchased below. Tickets are $1 each, 11 for $10, 25 for $20, 60 for $50, or 130 tickets for $100. For the knitter who loves to support student adventure and stellar educational experiences while increasing the odds, $250 will provide that knitter with a whopping 350 tickets! Go HERE

We’ll chart progress on here and in the Heads Up! DP Drawing! thread in the DyakCraft group on Ravelry, so check back often over the next two weeks to see how the students are doing. Drawing date is April 30!

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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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Melissa Thomson says
April 30, 2012 at 6:53 am
What a great thing for the students. They will get so much out of it!
Agua Vivee somos fabricantes de Agua Antioxidante says
May 15, 2012 at 9:14 am
I’m really impressed with your writing skills and also with the layout on your blog. Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself? Anyway keep up the excellent quality writing, it is rare to see a nice blog like this one today.

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