Knitting Retreat Scheduled!

Are you totally stressed out? Too much to do, overwhelmed and not getting your knitting done?

Here’s an idea… why not sign up for a knitting retreat? This time next year you’ll be so relaxed and mellowed out you’ll be able to sail through the holidays with no problems.

purlaway™ is excited to announce our upcoming luxury knitting retreat on October 8-11, 2009 at The Resort at the Mountain at the base of Mt. Hood in Welches, Oregon. Terri Shea, the author of Selbuvotter will be our instructor for this long weekend of workshops, comradery, and mountain air. Come join us for a relaxing and rejuvenating experience in this beautiful setting. Click here to learn more about this event! Find out about our Early Bird Special (available until April 3, 2009).

And, since you may need a shawl in October in the mountains, actually, I have no idea what the weather is like in Oregon, here’s a few free shawl patterns I found for you.

This blue one is the Candle Flame Shawl Pattern from KnitPicks, here: and the pink shawl, from Arteeni, here:

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I’ve shared a lot of Christmas stocking knitting patterns over the years (see posts 1, 2, 3 for example) but what if you want to knit a stocking for a non-human member of your family. If you’re looking for Christmas stocking knitting patterns for your cats or dogs, this is the post for you.

These large paw print stockings are perfect for either dogs or cats, so they’re great to knit if you have both. They are worked in the round using DK weight yarn, and the stocking measures about 17 inches/43 cm from the top to the heel. You can get the pattern from nicolaluke.

The K4 Project has a super cute Kitty Christmas stocking pattern, which is worked in worsted weight yarn. They also have a dog version, or you can buy both and get a discount if you have both dogs and cats to knit for. Both projects have two patterns, showing how to work the stockings flat or in the round.

Put your dog into a Christmas scene with this stocking pattern from ifanhourChild. It shows a dog in a dog house in the snow, and has room for the dog’s name at the top. It’s worked flat using worsted weight yarn and the pattern includes charts for many small and medium dog breeds (there’s a separate listing for bigger dogs) so you can stitch a dog that looks like yours.

Annie’s Woolens has both dog and cat stocking knitting patterns that are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. You can change up the colors to suit your pet if you want, and they come with an alphabet chart for personalization. Or you can stick with holiday colors and buy a kit to make the dog or cat stocking.

Waiting for Santa Paws is a pattern from Kate Agner on Ravelry that would be cute for a dog or a cat. It looks like a leg with a paw print on the bottom part of the foot and more paw prints running around the top of the leg. This is a great option if you don’t want to mess with a heel turn because it doesn’t have a heel, because dogs and cats don’t have heels so why would their stockings?

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Nichole Reese says
November 18, 2008 at 9:44 am
Thanks Terrye for checking out our retreat and for the write up. If anyone wants to find out more about the retreat they can go to hhtp://www.purlaway.com and learn all about it!
I am so excited about knitting up Selbu mittens, I want to go now!

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