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Zinnia Mittens, Twist Collective Winter 2011
Yippee, the new Twist Collective is out! There are so many beautiful designs in this issue! I’m honored to have my Zinnia mittens among them: The links: Zinnia on Twist Collective, main pattern page Zinnia on Twist Collective, detail page … Continue reading
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Tagged baby ull, chart, circular knitting, color, colorwork, Dale, Dale of Norway, Dalegarn, design, fair isle, fair isle knitting, knit, Knitting, knitting design, knitting pattern, knitting pattern pdf, Mary Ann Stephens, mittens, nordic, nordic knitting, norwegian, Norwegian knitting, pdf, shetland wool, stranded, stranded knitting, twist collective, wool, yarn, zinnia
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Snowbird Hat
My Snowbird Hat, knit in Dale of Norway’s Hubro, a tremendously soft, chunky 100% wool yarn which knits up in a blink. The PDF for this design is sold through Ravelry.
Posted in Knitting, Mary Ann's Designs, Uncategorized
Tagged beanie, cable, cabled, cables, cap, chunky, chunky knit, hat, hubro, knit, Knitting, knitting design, knitting pattern, Mary Ann Stephens, quick knit, ski hat, twisted stitches
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Link to class at KMIS
The details for my stranded knitting class are now up on the “Keep Me In Stitches” (don’t you just love that name?!) shop’s website. (Wow, those people are good!) Click that link and scroll down the page, just a bit, … Continue reading
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Tagged circular knitting, class, colorwork, Dale of Norway, design, fair isle, hat, knit, Knitting, knitting class, knitting design, knitting instruction, knitting pattern, Mary Ann Stephens, nordic, nordic knitting, Norwegian knitting
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How to make a tassel
A few folks have asked me how I made the tassel on my Fair Isle Hat that’s in the Fall 2011 edition of Vogue Knitting. Not too surprisingly, to save space and to fit more designs into their biggest issue … Continue reading
Fair Isle Hat, Vogue Knitting Fall 2011
That’s my “#08 Fair Isle Hat” that just came out in Vogue Knitting Fall 2011. While I was waiting for the black and white Cascade 220 Sport to arrive from Vogue Knitting (seen above), I made up the prototype in … Continue reading
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Tagged circular knitting, color, colorwork, Dale, Dale of Norway, Dalegarn, design, fair isle, fair isle knitting, hat, Heilo, Kidsknits, knit, Knitting, knitting design, knitting magazine, knitting pattern, knitting pattern pdf, Mary Ann Stephens, nordic, nordic knitting, norwegian, Norwegian knitting, pdf, stranded, stranded knitting, vogue, vogue knitting, wool, yarn
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New Dale Books: Oslo 2011 NR 228, Baby NR 209 and Kids NR 230
We’ve just received a shipment of three brand new Dale books, with instructions in English. Hopefully, they’ll be up on the website before long. But, in the meantime, click on the links below to see gorgeous full screen PDF photos … Continue reading
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Tagged fair isle, knitting design, Knitting, Norwegian knitting, Dale of Norway, Heilo, free knitting pattern, stranded knitting, mittens, steeks, yarn, nordic, baby blanket, circular knitting, knitting books, Kidsknits, sweater, nordic knitting, norwegian, design, stranded, falk, wool, knitting pattern, hat, pdf, Dale, Dalegarn, daletta, ski sweater, skiwear, oslo, oslo 2011, Dale books, norwegian ski team
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Rosalia: a Fair Isle / Norwegian / Asian design
My “Rosalia” is now out in the Winter 2010 edition of Twist Collective. For those of you asking “What was she thinking?!?!?!?!”, I offer the following excuses: When I was a child, unless it was Christmas or Easter, we simply … Continue reading
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Tagged asian, cardigan, Dale of Norway, Dalegarn, danish, falk yarn, happi, kimono, knit, Knitting, knitting design, knitting pattern, knitting pattern pdf, Mary Ann Stephens, norwegian, pdf, Rosalia, steeks, stranded, sweater, twist collective, washable wool, wool, yarn
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Vancouver 2010 in Fall 2009!
I’ve just hung up from a conversation with folks at Dale of Norway US and, boy, do I ever have good news for knitters! There will be a Vancouver 2010 Dale of Norway sweater for the Olympics. It’s scheduled to … Continue reading
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Tagged Dale of Norway, Knitting, knitting design, Norwegian knitting, Olympics, Vancouver 2010
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Postwar Mittens on Winter 2008 Twist Collective – a stranded knitting design
Woohoo! The Winter 2008 issue of Twist Collective is out and guess who got a chance to join in the fun: Click here to go straight to my mittens. (Thankfully, they’re infinitely better with the camera than I am. And … Continue reading
Fair Isle Repeat Offenders – managing motif layouts in Fair Isle knitting
We all learned at a very young age that even numbers split nicely and odd numbers create those troublesome leftovers, remainders. For some, that thought alone is the only seed needed to sprout an appreciation for optimal knitting design layout. … Continue reading
