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Tahki Stacy Charles Announces Fall/Winter Books

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[tag]Tahki Stacy Charles[/tag] has prepared 4 books for this fall / winter: Tahki Yarns Fall / Winter Collection, Tweed Collection, Filatura di Crosa Fall / Winter Collection and S. Charles Collezione Fall / Winter Collection.

Tahki Yarns Fall / Winter Collection [tag]knitting pattern[/tag] book features 26 classic and fashionable knitting patterns using Angel, Baby, Baby Print, Bunny, Bunny Print, Bunny Paint, Bunny Splash, Dream, Flower, Jolie, Monterey, SAvoy, Star, Taos, Torino, Totino Bulky, and Torino Bulky Long Print yarns.

Filatura di Crosa Fall / Winter Collection knitting pattern book features 19 classic and fashionable knitting patterns 127 Print, Alpalite, Baby Kid, Batuffolo, Batuffolo Print, Carousel, Curly, Elen Cashmere, Gioiello, Malizioso, Maxime Print, Mutlicolor, Murano, North Pole, Puff, Superior, Tibet, Tokyo, Wave, Zara, Zara Plus and Zarina yarns.

Tahki Knitting Patterns Tweed Collection 2007 knitting pattern book features 17 classic and fashionable knitting patterns using Baby Tweed, Donegal Tweed Homespun, New Tweed, Shannon and Soho Bulky yarns.

S. Charles Collezione Knitting Patterns Fall Winter 2007 knitting pattern book features 22 classic and fashionable knitting patterns using Aran Cashmere, Aura, Dynasty, Galaxy, Luxor, Merino Cable, Micio, Pasha, Rialto, Ritratto, Sabrina and Venus yarns.

[tag]Tahki Stacy Charles yarns[/tag] and patterns – a very nice way to start your winter wardrobe!

Looking for Fall patterns to Knit? Check out these Fall knitting patterns we found on Etsy.

Comments

  1. I’m rather imprsesed that you know the contents of your stash. I discover many interesting (and not so interesting) things when I dive into mine. As to finishing, I only just finished a Mini-Manu, a cardigan for a small girl designed by Kate Davies. It is quite an elaborate and clever design, and all the edges are finished by an I-cord bind-off. The result looks very nice indeed, tidy and strong.

  2. I need to know if there are corrections to pattern #16 Taormina Circle Vest. I’m ready for the Lace pattern and can’t figure out how to set it up. Round one (I think) needs to have five stitches in order to come to the eight stitches increase in row 2. Please help.

Have you read?

Knit a Log Cabin Blanket with All Your Scraps

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]