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Boxer Press Audio and KnitPicks.com Entertain Craftsters with Free Holiday Audio

The knitting up of an elaborate stocking brings an amorous ghost to West Hill along with a most unusual proposal, an intrepid thief, and more than a few second chances this December. Boxer Press Audio and internet yarn retailer KnitPicks.com team up to offer Miss Eiderdowns Stocking as a free MP3 download in two parts.

 Part One Release: Live December 4th, 2009, 9am Pacific Time  http://media.libsyn.com/media/knitpicks/Eiderdown1.mp3

 Part Two Release: December 12th, 2009, 9am Pacific Time  http://media.libsyn.com/media/knitpicks/Eiderdown2.mp3

Every craftsperson has a dream project. Miss Lillian Eiderdowns just happens to be a holiday stocking as elaborate as her imagination can make it. When her partner in Entwhistle-Eiderdown Wools dies, Lillian closes the shop and sets her needles to work. Will the knitting up lead her to a new beginning or is this knitter destined to never bind-off?  

Everyone stresses during the holiday make-athon, so why not have someone read you a yarn about second chances? asks Kate Godfrey, writer/producer of Boxer Press Audio. We love the crafts community as much as the folks at Knit Picks do so we were delighted when they agreed to partner with us to tell Miss Eiderdowns story. May this audio gift make the season a merrier one for everyone rushing to finish one more last minute gift.

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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]