Celebrate the 10th Annual Worldwide Knit in Public Day

In the past, Worldwide Knit in Public Day has spread out over a week, because it was often at the same time as the big TNNA show in the states. But that’s already happened this year, so everyone is celebrating together, on Saturday, June 13.

You can find local events wherever you are at the WWKIP Day website, or check with your local yarn store if you have one for any special events that might be going on. (Mine is having knitting on the front porch of their shop, which sounds like a lot of fun.)

Do you normally knit in public? I find it really interesting to see people’s reactions when they see you knitting. My favorite recent one was at a dress rehearsal for my daughter’s play; all the kids were swarming me to see what I was doing!

If you have plans for knitting out on Saturday, I’d love to hear them.

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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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Pat morris says
June 13, 2015 at 6:33 pm
I spent a great afternoon with my daughter and two friends knitting in a park across from American Needle works in Middletown . Then it was off to lunch at a cute cafe right next door to the park. The four of us crossed the street to the yarn shop where we bought our tote bags for the Hudon Valley Yarn shop cruise . I also scored some beautiful lane Cervinia sock yarn.
Then it was off to Warwick New York to get our pass ports stamped at Whistle Stop Yarn . More sock yarn of course….this one Zusammenhalt Opal ,and some much needed stitch markers. We plan to go to at least one or two shops on the cruise each week with side trips into the towns that they are located in. This cruise was a great idea. I knit in public all of the time.

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