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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.

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  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?

Tips for Picking the Right Color Yarn for Your Project

I have never been all that picky about the colors I use in knitting projects. When choosing colors for projects to go in my books, I try to pick colors that go together in individual projects and also to use a variety of colors among the projects in the book, so while I love blue and green I make sure to throw in orange and yellow as well, for example.

When knitting projects for myself I’m usually using stash so whatever I have is good enough. Or if I do happen to be buying yarn for a project, it’s usually more about the texture or fiber content of the yarn first, then choosing a color I like, rather than having a color in mind then finding a yarn with that in its line.

Marie at Olive Knits was looking for the perfect green yarn to replace a store bought sweater, and she found that picking out exactly the right shade was trickier than she expected.

She wrote a blog post full of tips for finding the right yarn when you’re looking for a particular color.

I think the hardest part of this these days is that we tend to do so much online shopping for yarn, either because we don’t have a local yarn store, we can’t get what we want locally or we want to support independent makers who live elsewhere. And if you’ve ever received yarn that isn’t quite the color you were expecting you know what I’m talking about.

One of her tips, then, is to look at a color swatch for the yarn you’re thinking about buying on every monitor or device you have available because it probably will look different on different screens (and maybe different still in person, and under different lighting conditions, or if you use it in a project with other colors…).

Check out her post for more tips on finding the right color for your project.

[Photo: Olive Knits.]

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