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Interweave Names Kathleen Cubley Editor of KnittingDaily.com


Loveland, Colo., July 1, 2009: Interweave announced today that Kathleen Cubley is the new editor of KnittingDaily.com, effective today.

 

KnittingDaily.com, serving more than 300,000 knitting community members, recently introduced a newly designed and expanded web site featuring more bloggers, videos, forums and free patterns. Sandi Wiseheart is stepping aside as editor to spend more time writing and today she will move into a new role as a regular blogger for KnittingDaily.com; her blog will be called “What’s on Sandi’s Needles?,” where she’ll be sharing with readers her adventures in knitting.

 

Kathleen Cubley joins Interweave with a rich background in editing, writing, and publishing. For six years she was Director of Editorial and Production at Mountaineers Books in Seattle. Plus, she’s an all-around crafter and experienced knitter, who teaches knitting at her local yarn shop, A Grand Yarn in Spokane, Wash.

 

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Knit a Log Cabin Blanket with All Your Scraps

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn. 

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small. 

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches. 

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come. 

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you. 

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?). 

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry. 

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns. 

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]