Note from Bartlettyarns New Owner

Just a little follow up on the sale of [tag]Bartlettyarns[/tag] – I received an email from [tag]Susan Rice[/tag] –

Although I am not “blog” savy-I have seen a few postings about the recent sale of Bartlettyarns and found that I could respond easily here-I hope. To let everyone know-Lindsey and I bought the mill in mid March and have been hard at work re-establishing over 10 formally retired colors, expanding some of these colors into the other lines such as 3 ply and bulky and we are in the process of sending out our new revised custom processing flyer, working on a new wholesale flyer and will be attending [tag]Gore Place[/tag] this Saturday; [tag]NH Sheep and Wool Festival[/tag] and [tag]Waynesboro, PA Fiber Fest[/tag] in the coming weeks. We will be able to take your raw fleece back to the mill for processing thus saving on shipping costs one way. (Not sure of the rules and proper etiquette, so please forgive me–we just want everyone to know that YES, we are former customers of Bartletts for over 20 years, have a great appreciation and understanding of what makes this a unique mill and that we are doing are very best to keep it alive and prosperous! Happy Knitting and please feel free to edit for appropriateness.

Thanks, Susan Rice

No editing Susan, glad to hear this institution is going strong!

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]

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