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Giveaway: Knitting Daily Workshop DVDs

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Congratulations to Connie!

As I mentioned recently, I’ve been cleaning out my office and clearing out some old things that I don’t need any more, and passing on a lot of good, classic stuff to you.

This week I have two DVDs from the Knitting Daily Workshop collection, circa 2009.

“Introduction to Fair Isle: The Ivy League Vest” features Eunny Jang teaching how to work stranded knitting designs, use two colors at a time, add new colors, fix mistakes, work shaping in colorwork, make and cut a steek and successfully finish a project. It includes a free download (I just checked and it still works) of the Ivy League Vest pattern, which the 54 minute DVD walks you through.

“Classic to Creative Knit Cables” with Kathy Zimmerman takes you through the basics of cable knitting and covers all the techniques you need to knit two included patterns, a scarf and a sweater. This DVD is 65 minutes long.

I would guess these are region 1 DVDs, so you might not want to enter if you can’t watch those

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  5. Love cables and have
    been wanting to try Fair Isle..but…..FEAR! lol
    Thanks for the giveaway.

  7. Love Eunny Jung and cables are in my “to do technique” list for this year. Thanks!

  8. I would love to win these… I’m a good knitter, but have trouble teaching friends new skills. These would be fun for sharing in our knitting circle.

  13. I’m just starting to venture out of making just knit/purl scarves so these would be great.

  15. 1. A friend lent me the Cable DVD – and like the honest guy I am I gave it back. It was a wonderful DVD, great presentation and high video quality.

    2. Eunny Jang was always my favorite presenter on the show, and I’m sure the quality of this DVD will be as high as the other. I’d love to have these in my permanent collection.

    Thanks for the giveaway. KittenWhiplash on Ravelry.

Have you read?

Knit a Stunning Bestiary Scarf

I don’t even know what to say about this amazing knitting pattern. The Bestiary Scarf from Monstra & Mirabilia is so full of details it’s a little intimidating to talk about. 

It features, as the designer describes it, an “artistic encyclopaedia of Western mythical creatures.”

The pattern includes a dragon, harpy, Medusa, chimaera, centauress, phoneix, kraken, mermaid, sew serpent, cyclops, wyvern, Pegasus, amphiptere and amphibaena. (It’s a good thing there’s a photo of the proejct with everything labelled because I definitely didn’t know the names for everything.) It’s also designed like a landscape, with water and land creatures toward the bottom ends and sky creatures toward the top. 

The dragon is at the center and is worked sideways so it will show as upright when you wear it. 

The scarf is worked in double knitting, so the colorwork appears in the opposite colors on the other side. 

It’s worked in light fingering weight yarn (on size 0 US or 2mm knitting needles) and the colorwork is shown in charts. The pattern also includes some video tutorials and written instructions to help you along. The designer says the pattern is for intermediate knitters, and “advanced beginners may succeed with patience and the help of the video tutorials.”

When I was an advanced beginner this kind of a pattern would have brought me to tears, but if you love a challenge, and a project that you’ll wear and get tons of astonished reactions every time, this is the project for you. And of course if you have a few double knitting projects under your belt and are comfortable reading charts, this project shouldn’t be hard, but that doesn’t mean it’s fast. But lots of great things take time, and that’s never stopped us before, right? 

You can get a copy of this pattern from Monstra & Mirabilia on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Monstra & Mirabilia ]