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Announcing…New Yarns and Free Patterns From Nashua Handknits.

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doll1Nashua 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.doll2
 
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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  1. hi!
    the link to the nashua free 18″ doll patterns isn’t working. can you check it to see why it isn’t? lorna

Have you read?

A Shawlette with a Ton of Design Options

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette. 

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up). 

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley. 

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design. 

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like. 

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going. 

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]