Color Works
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Churchmouse Yarns & Teas is my LYS here on Bainbridge Island in Washington state. They are starting the new year with a focus on fair isle knitting. The store will be bringing in Janine Bajus in April with a couple of workshops, a fair isle tam and choosing colors for fair isle work. The store is also offering EZ's Fair Isle Yoke Sweater class and Fair Isle Tam class featuring a design by Sandy Blue.
I have always loved Elizabeth Zimmerman's fair isle yoked sweaters, and the Lopi yoked sweaters as well. The books you see to the left are my color books.
Color work can also include intarsia work and as you all know we always include crochet. I'm taking my que from the Churchmouse Yarns & Teas and will kick off 2011 with Color Works. Email over your entries and I'll post them up. mary@americasknitting.com |
Christina lives in California and she designed these socks and knit these socks. They are wild and fun and fresh. Christina calls these socks her Hawaiian Tattoo Socks. The yarn that she used on this sock is AlohaBlue Fingering Weight, and Knit Picks Stroll Solids. If these socks interest you, visit Christina's Etsy shop. Thank you Christina for sharing your work with us - very unique!!
Rebecca from Colorado knit the Selbu Modern by kate Gagnon Osborn using Knit Picks Bare and Knit Picks Essential Solids. I love the white with black - classic. Thank you Rebecca for participating on our projects page.
One of our Wednesday night knitters Melissa, just moved to Virginia with her husband and two boys. She knit this Irish Hiking Scarf by Adrian Bizilia, two tone style for her husband just in time for Christmas. Melissa used Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Worsted. The Irish Hiking Scarf is a free Ravery download. Just in time for that cold snap back east. Melissa, it looks wonderful -- thank you for sending it over. 'Miss you'!
Karyn is from New York and she has knit Jared Flood's Turn A Square Hat. The yarn that Karyn used is Cascade Yarns 220 Wool and also Noro Kureyon. She says that this hat is a two night project and the pattern is a free download over on Ravelry. Thank you Karyn so much for sharing your work.
Helen lives in Oregon and she has knit this Icelandic Star Cardigan by Sarah Hoadley. She used Reynolds Lite Lopi and the pattern can be found in the Winter edition of the 2009 Interweave Knits magazine. I think this is such a pretty sweater and a great example of stranded knitting. I'll bet this is a go to cardigan, easy on, easy off. What a treasure. Thank you Helen for sharing your knitting with us, great work! Helen's LYS is Yarn Garden of Portland, Oregon.
Sheila Joynes of Port Orchard, Washington designed and knit this very cool and classy, fun Hydrangea Fair isle Slouch Hat using Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift. Debbie Macomber's A Good Yarn Shop sells the pattern and yarn for this hat. Sheila's designs have been published in
Designs by Sheila Joynes, Sterling Publications, Creative Knitting, Simply Shetland, and Plymouth Yarn, Vogue Knitting Fall 2010, and Designer Knitting Fall 2010. You can also purchase some of Sheila's patterns through Ravelry. Thank you Sheila.....I can't wait to start my J's hat. You can learn more about Sheila on her website!
Meet Jill -- she lives in Montana. She's made a few of these hats and they are super cute! The title of the pattern is Quick & Easy Hats for the Whole Family by Aimee Alexander. Jill used Heirloom Breeze in Rose & White. You can purchase the pattern for this hat at Knit 'n Needle Yarn Shoppe in Whitefish, Montana! Thank you Jill - cute hat!
Abby lives in the great state of Montana. I know Christmas has passed, but these are great stockings. I love that touch of argyle. They also fit in this months theme of color work! The New Ancestral Christmas Stocking is by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne, and the pattern in available in Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside The Lines. Look for this book at your LYS. Abby used Cascade Yarns 220 Wool and her LYS is The Yarn Center in Hamilton, Montana. To read more on Abby, here's a link to her blog. Thank you Abby for sharing these fun stockings, they are really fun!
Mary Triplett of Salt Lake City, Utah is a new designer making fun, sometimes whimsical, and this time classic designs. These are really pretty mittens using worsted weight yarn. Mary used Berroco's Ultra Alpaca for these mittens with a lining no less out of some dk weight yarn by Frog Tree. Really pretty Mary, thanks for sharing your work with us. Mary's design name is Just Knits. Look for her on Ravelry and also Facebook.
Lynn from Michigan made these dandy mittens and she will start us off this new year. Lynn used Brown Sheep Nature Spun Sport.
Been working on these mitts over the holiday. They were inspired by Juju’s Amanda’s Mittens. I used her cuff recipe, and the tiny pattern from some Starmore mittens I’ve been working on, and then played with some embroidery – something I haven’t tried before. I was so pleased with the way they turned out that I started a second pair. The first pair was gifted to Susan in thanks for all her encouragement over this past year. They are lovely indeed Lynn, thank you so much for sharing your inspiring creativity!
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