Nashua Handknits announces two new yarns for Spring 2009:
Creative FocusTM Silk: We are very excited about our 100% bourette silk in a bright palette of fifteen shades. Creative FocusTM Silk knits at 5 sts to the inch with each 50 gram ball containing 120 yards. This yarn has a wonderful hand and shows textures beautifully! A medium sized short sleeve stockinette stitch garment uses approximately 7 to 8 skeins. Creative FocusTM Silk has its own dedicated pattern book with 8 designs for women.Our new web site gives all the necessary details on each design in the book (color used, number of skeins required, finished bust measurements) to plan your next project.
Daylily: With two tonally spaced-dyed strands, one matte and the other shiny, twisted together, Daylily glows with color and knits up at 4 sts to the inch. Perfect for easy, quick to knit garments, a medium sized short sleeve stockinette stitch garment uses approximately 9 to 10 skeins. Daylily has a dedicated pattern booklet containing 10 designs for women.
Here are two quick and easy doll sweaters (to fit an 18” doll) knit in our new spring yarns.
Go to http://www.nashuaknits.com/Patterns/tabid/174/Default.aspx to download these free patterns.
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Christmas Stocking Knitting Patterns for Your Pets
I’ve shared a lot of Christmas stocking knitting patterns over the years (see posts 1, 2, 3 for example) but what if you want to knit a stocking for a non-human member of your family. If you’re looking for Christmas stocking knitting patterns for your cats or dogs, this is the post for you.
These large paw print stockings are perfect for either dogs or cats, so they’re great to knit if you have both. They are worked in the round using DK weight yarn, and the stocking measures about 17 inches/43 cm from the top to the heel. You can get the pattern from nicolaluke.
The K4 Project has a super cute Kitty Christmas stocking pattern, which is worked in worsted weight yarn. They also have a dog version, or you can buy both and get a discount if you have both dogs and cats to knit for. Both projects have two patterns, showing how to work the stockings flat or in the round.
Put your dog into a Christmas scene with this stocking pattern from ifanhourChild. It shows a dog in a dog house in the snow, and has room for the dog’s name at the top. It’s worked flat using worsted weight yarn and the pattern includes charts for many small and medium dog breeds (there’s a separate listing for bigger dogs) so you can stitch a dog that looks like yours.
Annie’s Woolens has both dog and cat stocking knitting patterns that are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. You can change up the colors to suit your pet if you want, and they come with an alphabet chart for personalization. Or you can stick with holiday colors and buy a kit to make the dog or cat stocking.
Waiting for Santa Paws is a pattern from Kate Agner on Ravelry that would be cute for a dog or a cat. It looks like a leg with a paw print on the bottom part of the foot and more paw prints running around the top of the leg. This is a great option if you don’t want to mess with a heel turn because it doesn’t have a heel, because dogs and cats don’t have heels so why would their stockings?
hi!
the link to the nashua free 18″ doll patterns isn’t working. can you check it to see why it isn’t? lorna
please explain waht “m1” in instructions mean
make one. Here’s how you do it: http://knitting.about.com/od/knittingglossary/g/make-one.htm