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Knitting Retreat Scheduled!

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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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  1. 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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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.