Kara Gott Warner Promoted at Annie’s

Kara Gott Warner, editor of Creative Knitting magazine, has been named the new editorial director of knit and crochet at Annie’s, the speciality publisher that owns that magazine.

Warner will stay on as editor but will also oversee the company’s magazines Crochet! and Crochet World as well as the television series “Knit and Crochet Now!” (I recently reviewed its latest season over at About, if you missed it.) She first joined Annie’s in 2008 as a freelance knitting book editor, and joined the company full time in 2010 as executive editor of Creative Knitting magazine and knit publications.

“I’m passionate about yarn and the survival of the industry. In my new position as editorial director, I look forward to strengthening existing relationships with Annie’s yarn partners and cultivating new alliances as well. I believe this is an essential ingredient to our success,” she said in a press release announcing the promotion.

If you’d like to learn more about her, check out this interview I did with her.

Congratulations, Kara, and best of luck in your new position!

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Remembering Annie Modesitt

As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells, so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

[Photo: Knit Picks]

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