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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

  1. I recently saw two of the patterns in this book and I absolutely love the ingenuity of her designs! I really want this book!

  3. Her designs are absolutely beautiful. These would be so fun to make for me and my friends.

  5. I’ve been eyeing this book for a while – I love the lush look of the fibers Kristin uses!

  7. Love the cover shrug and the serpentine wrap but would love to see the book for the varied constructions she has used. Thank you

  8. I love Interweave and Knitty websites. The cover shrug is gorgeous. It’s what caught my eye and made me comment.

  9. It’s hard to choose one design that I love the most from the pictures I’ve seen of this book. I would love a chance to win a copy.

  10. I haven’t made anything wearable yet. I’m still fairly new to knitting and would love to win this book to attempt a wrap!

  18. The shrug on the cover looks great– so I’m sure there are many more great designs inside!

  19. Kristin’s designs are great, somewhere between playful and elegant, and very wearable. There’s some truly spectacular patterns in this book, like the Flamenco Ruffled Drawstring Skirt or the Infinity Cardy-Wrap and the cute shrug on the cover.

  21. I tried knitting up the shrug on the cover of Knitting Wrapsody, but there seems to be a problem with the short-row graph. Has anybody tried working with this pattern yet or run into problems?

  22. Wow! I just saw this book today and have been looking for information on Kristin Omdahl and happened upon this! I hope I win!

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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.