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Giveaway – Kristin Omdahl’s Knitting Wrapsody!

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Take 18 original designs, a plethora of interesting techniques and elements, and a DVD full of tutorials, and what do you have?

Kristin Omdahl’s Knitting Wrapsody! Wrap, drape and tie your knitting with scarves, shawls, capes, wraps, shrugs and skirts. If you can wrap it, drape it or tie it, it’s in here!

Kristin takes some unusual approaches to her techniques and the accompanying dvd will guide you through. A perfect way to learn, and who better to learn from!

This giveaway will end Mar 16, 2011. Leave me a comment about Kristin’s designs.

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  2. Great, you fixed it – thank you!
    That bolero on the cover is gorgeous. It’d look fab on me ?

  4. I also love the wrap on the cover but think it’s totally awesome that the book has skirts too! That’s a big selling point for me.

  9. I can’t seem to finish a full-size sweater, but her wraps are perfect for my attention span!

  13. Wow! I have always preferred crochet, but these designs make me want to pick up the old knitting needles again!

  15. Kristin Omdahl’s book is chocked full of lovely designs. The Infinity and Anouk would be the first two garments I would knitted as ‘no giveaways’….just for me. If I won this book and DVD…..I’d finally have to hook up the DVD player.

  20. i saw a few patterns that look amazing, I would love to get my hands on this book! My first project would probably be that Purple Lace Dress/wrap or the Infinity sweater coat.

  24. I absolutely love wraps…I do not get cold easily but for the occasional chill they are perfect and Kristin is so wonderfully inventive.

  26. I have been looking at this book since it came out! I would love to win it. I love Kristin’s designs. I have “Crochet So Fine” and LOVE it.

  27. I LOVE the yak wrap,tree of life,the wrap skirt,and the cardi-wrap with sleeves,oh my I guess I love them ALL! Thanks for the giveaway!1

  28. This book looks amazing! I absolutely love the shrug on the cover. It’s the perfect combination of color, shape and interesting stitches. If I win I would make that one first.

  29. Love the cover wrap too but would love to get my hands on the Echo Reversible Drop-Stitch Mobius also!! Great for spring.

  34. I would love to have the book! It is on my list of books to purchase as I love wraps.

  38. I have never knit any of her designs but they look GORGEOUS!!! So if I win the book…I’ll get right into knitting one of them!! I DO have a USA mailing address…

  41. I have one of Kristin’s crochet books and love it. Her designs are always beautiful and unique, which is why I love them. I’m a beginning knitter and would love to get this book. The shrug on the cover is fabulous!

  42. I looked at the book and she does do some of the best knitting of any one I know. I would love to win the book it would look good with my other craft books. Thank you and have a wonderful week.

  44. That blue shrug on the cover is amazing. I love it! I’m learning to knit so the book would be a fantastic resource!

  45. Interesting designs, but the shrug on the cover is my favorite. I’d definitely knit it first!

  46. Looks like a great book. I love knitting wraps, and want to try several of these projects

  47. I love wraps, especially living in New Mexico where nights are cool all year long. These look perfect!

Have you read?

How to Design a Vest Knitting Pattern

I talked the other day about how much I am enjoying vests lately. Another reason I’m liking them is that they give me an excuse to knit something sweater adjacent without actually knitting sweaters, since I have about 24 knit sweaters and don’t really need more right now.

I recently designed a completely basic, bulky V-neck sweater worked in two pieces from the bottom up as a way to teach people how to design a basic garment for themselves.

This vest fulfilled a dream of mine because I’ve always wanted to make something with Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick & Quick‘s Hudson Bay colorway, and I happened to be at my local Joann (before all the bankruptcy sales started) and there were exactly three skeins of this colorway, all of the same dye lot, so I figured that was a sign that I needed to take them and make something.

Three skeins isn’t a huge amount of yardage (about 318 yards) so I thought a vest would be a great choice. And it worked out perfectly that I could make the vest I wanted in the right size for me and used almost exactly all the yarn (I think I have about 2 yards left). And that was with only doing a round of single crochet around the neckline and slip stitches around the armholes because I didn’t have enough yarn to do ribbing.

I love it just as it is, though, and the process the post walks you through could be used to make a vest of any size and in any gauge that you want. But to be honest I kind of want to knit another one exactly the same in a different colorway, and maybe with some ribbing next time.

If you’d like to knit your own vest or just see how I made mine, check out the post over at Our Daily Craft. I think this is a great way to learn the basics of designing on a small scale and an easy way to build knitting confidence.

[Photo: Our Daily Craft]

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