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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.

Comments

  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?

Fun Halloween Cowls to Knit

One of the fun things about knitters is that we will use a holiday theme on any kind of project. From Easter bunny socks to Christmas sweaters, there’s no combination of holiday motif and knitwear genre we won’t combine. 

Case in point: Halloween cowls. 

This fun cowl from Sweet Vireo Designs features large carved pumpkins and little cats and skulls. It uses two colors of DK weight yarn and I love the multicolored yarn for the background color on this one. And the braids! So cute. 

Spooky Season by Jocelyn Tunney (also on Ravelry) uses fingering weight yarn in two colors to make a design with crescent moons and eyes. There are two circumferences and two heights available so you can make it a neck hugger or a slightly bigger project if you like. 

Make more moons with the Broom Riding Cowl from Vanessa Ewing Knits. This two color pattern looks extra fun with a multicolored yarn for the colorwork, but you can use a solid as well. It calls for DK weight yarn but there is also a fingering weight version if you have some yarn in your stash you want to use. 

Jinx Made has another fun Halloween cowl, this time covered in skulls. South Philly Skulls uses DK weight yarn and comes in two lengths, and there’s also a matching hat pattern, both of which can be found on Ravelry. 

The Ghost Stories cowl from Melissa Knit Wear is a two-color cowl with ghosts of different sizes on the body. It uses DK weight yarn, and average sized skeins will allow you to get two cowls out of two skeins. It also calls for stitch markers to help you keep your place in the chart. 

Or stitch up a cowl with a giant bat on it. The Nightling Cowl from Jen Immer uses DK weight yarn in two colors and has moons and a large bat on it. This pattern can be found on Ravelry. 

How about spooky trees? The Weirwood Cowl from Andrea Krüß-Anders is inspired by the weirwood trees in the Game of Thrones books, and is worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn. You can find this free pattern on Ravelry. 

If a bandana cowl is more your thing, try Cowloween from Tellybean Knits (on Ravelry). This colorful design is worked from the top down and features pumpkins, ghosts and candy colored stripes, and is worked in a light fingering weight yarn. There are kid and adult sizes available.