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Interweave Accessories 2009 – It’s Only A Dime!

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That’s Right! For only a cool .10 cents you can get this magazine, in digital format!

Here’s what Interweave says:

If you’ve never downloaded a digital
edition before, see how easy it can be!

 Interweave Knits Accessories
special issue magazine features projects for every season and every
style!

 Interweave Knits
Accessories includes 60+ projects. Filled with accessories galore to warm
your extremities–hats, scarves and wraps, socks, mitts and gloves. this is a
compilation of our favorite knitted accessories. These projects are both
seasonal and year-round, timeless in design, and wearable for all ages.

And there’s more: From simple how-to get
started techniques through quick finishing tips, this issue will be a handy
reference for great accessories now and for many years to come.

Yeah, a link would be a good idea, eh? Here it is:

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Comments

  1. I’m trying really hard to find it to download, but everywhere I look, I find the issue in digital format costs $14. Is there a link I’m missing somewhere?

  2. I’m with Bonnie – is there a direct link you can post to the 10 cent download? I’d be much obliged ifyou could post it, it’s starting to turn colder here and everyone wants gloves…

  4. Thank you wanted to see what the downloading thing is about without investing heavily. I have downloaded it but haven’t really decided what I think yet.

Have you read?

Knit a Cowl Full of Variations

I love to see variations on knitting patterns. It’s fun to see what knitters do with a designer’s ideas, and as a designer sometimes it’s fun to think about different ways that you could do things and change the look or feel of a project.

Tif Neilan played with this idea herself with a set of two bandana cowls called Variations.

These projects are both worked in five colors of sport weight yarn, and they’re worked flat in interrupted stripes of garter stitch in different colors. There is shaping worked in different sections to give it the shape it has, and you work a three-needle bind off to finish the project and join it into a cowl.

The bind off is meant to be visible, but since the rest of the project is garter stitch you can decide to wear the seam side in if you’d rather.

The difference between the two projects is their size, with cowl 1 being a smaller version and cowl 2 more like a shawl.

The first variation measures about 24 inches/60 cm around the neck and is 20.5 inches/51 cm long and the longest point. The second option is around 25 inches/62.5 cm neck circumference and 28.5 inches/71 long when worn. The smaller one uses 400-450 yards (402-411 meters) of yarn, while the larger calls for 655 to 660 (599 to 604 meters).

It could go without saying that this would be a great stash busting project where you could change colors even more often as you run out of yarn. But if you know me you know I’m never going to go without saying it. So grab your leftovers and get to stitching, why don’t you?

Both of the patterns are on Ravelry: Variations Cowl 1 and Variations Cowl 2. Don’t miss the projects tabs to see all the, uh, variations, different people have made!

[Photo: Tif Neilan]

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