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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!

Have you read?

A Shawlette with a Ton of Design Options

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette. 

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up). 

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley. 

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design. 

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like. 

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going. 

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]