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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Have you read?
Krampus Sweater Knitting Pattern
Santa and Saint Nicholas generally get all the good press, but Central European kids know you don’t want to just be good so you get presents from St. Nicholas; you also want to avoid the ire of Krampus. (He’s depicted as a human-like figure with horns and usually hairy or furry who gives birch rods instead of gifts to kids who are bad.)
If you’re the type to embrace the naughty side (or you just want to scare the children into good behavior over the holidays), maybe you’ll want to knit a Krampus sweater.
This one, from Sofie Amalie Laulund, is a top down circular yoke sweater with Krampus faces at the top and cavorting Krampuses further down the body, with some traditional Scandinavian snowflakes thrown in for fun.
Because of the large motifs there’s not a lot of room for adjusting the fit, but it is available in five sizes (the Ravelry page doesn’t say what the sizing is, and it says its worked with no ease but the photo looks like the sweater has a bit of positive ease, so if you decide to make this one just check the measurements and your own comfort level for ease when picking a size).
It also uses five colors, but there’s very little red and brown so you can probably use scrap yarn for those parts. It calls for DK weight yarn. You’ll want a background color that helps the creatures stand out. You could also work the snowflake bands in different colors if you want to mix it up.
The pattern is available in both English and Danish, and you can find it on Ravelry. This is the designer’s first pattern, which kudos to them because it’s such an ambitious (and fun!) project I’m happy to add to my collection of whimsy-filled knits.
[Photo: Sofie Amalie Laulund]
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