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New Series of Knitting Daily TV Airing Now

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knittinf daily tv series 1400Series 1400 of Knitting Daily TV, the third series with Vickie Howell as host, just started airing on public television stations nationwide, and it’s also available for download or purchase as a DVD.

This season includes 13 episodes covering everything from colorwork to sweaters, accessories to spinning and crochet. Here’s a rundown of all the episodes:

  • Great Beginnings
  • Thick of It
  • Transitional Knits
  • Norwegian Knits
  • Sweater Weather
  • Accessorize It!
  • Arm Yourself
  • Playtime Knits
  • Crochet Home
  • Made in North America
  • New Spin
  • Novelty of it All
  • Don’t Sweater the Small Stuff

The episodes include information about yarns, cool techniques like Latvian braids and Aran lace, cool products and tips from knitwear and crochet designers from around the world.

Do you watch Knitting Daily TV? I’d kind of gotten out of the habit but I’ve got my DVR warmed up for it this season!

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  4. Previously was able to obtain the patterns shown on the show. Now
    only see the whole series to buy. I just want certain patterns that they say are available. Help please.

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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]