Tag: Deborah Newton
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Full-on Indulgence including Runway Revisit, 2018
If you are a follower of VKL (Vogue Knitting Live), you may be aware that this event in NYC is historically held in January. After travel debacle of December, I was fully aware January could prove the same. JetBlue, however served its travelers well, weather cooperated, and I found myself at VKL NYC 2018 in…
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Honeycomb Slip Stitch
Last year, The Knitting Guild of Greater Buffalo brought in designer, Heather Lodinsky, to teach a skill on one of her designs. The pattern was her two-tone slip stitch cable pullover and the skill was using slip stitches in cable work. In my experience in knitting, I had not encountered slip stitches to be used for the design…
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Renaissance
One of my goals as I entered into retirement was to knit from my stash. The stash I am talking about includes patterns I have loved and collected over time and/or the bundles of yarn that were purchased at a time when I thought I could knit a particular project. I suppose enthusiasm outweighs time, at least that is my case, so in…
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Fretwork but Fret Not (1 of 2)
If you were to read the notes of knitters who have tackled this project, Fretwork designed by Shiri Mor, you would be struck by a few common strands of thinking. The first common thread is one of curiosity over the sweater’s construction. I was no different. In viewing the pattern, you can see how initially it looks like a cabled sweater but then…
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Two Shout Outs
As a soon-to-be retiree, I am beginning to open my ears and eyes to life after employment. When I spotted this opportunity with Deborah Newton, I just had to write about it. I am so in love with her as a knitter due to her pristine attention to detail, especially in the finishing touches of a garment.…
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A Guide on Gauge
I am not sure if this post ought to be called A Guide on Gauge or Gauge Guiding. In either case, I have become a huge fan of knitting up gauges! To the uninformed, the process of taking time to work up a gauge might seem like an unnecessary and/or optional step in working up…
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Tom Scott Bobble
Here’s the thing. Time is sacred. Yarn is expensive. I need to get the biggest bang for my buck. There is an ever increasing list of criteria my pattern choice has to have. I have talked about them before. High on the list is its uniqueness, followed by excitement and originality, followed by wearability on…
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From A-symmetric to Z-ipper
Funny, when I receive a new Vogue Knitting magazine, I tend to have two emotions. The first is, of course, excitement as anyone who follows my knitting knows that I believe VK stands well above any other publication for outstanding knitting fashion, photography, and inspiration. The other emotion I notice is fear. I hear myself…
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