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A Challenge … And a Drawing!

January 24th, 2010 by Karen

The other day, I was at my LYS Great Yarns! while the shop owner and staff were going through the shop listing items they were planning to bring to the Seattle Sewing Expo at the Puyallup Fairgrounds next month.

As they were going through the shop, a comment was made that the Flat Feet weren’t selling as well as regular Sock Yarn and that maybe we should come up with other items to make other than socks with Flat Feet.

As the resident Crocheter on staff, I took this challenge and after looking at the different colors we had in stock, I came up with a cool new design. It’s still in progress.. but will Launch at the Sewing Expo.

But I have a question for all of you out there…

What would you / have you crocheted

with Flat Feet?

If you would like to receive a free copy of this new pattern, Post a reply to this post with your answer to the above question. I will continue to take responses until Friday, February 26, 2010. I will draw the winner on Sunday, February 28, 2010.

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December Project Recap

Categories: projects

January 7th, 2010 by Karen

I thought I would share a picture of my projects in the month of December.

Unfortunately I cannot share what the projects were.. but I thought you would like to see all the ends I wove in during the month…

What I CAN tell you is that I am supremely excited about all of them!

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New Free Pattern – SOCKS!

Categories: Lion Brand Yarn free pattern pattern socks

January 6th, 2010 by Karen

I am so excited to FINALLY announce that Lion Brand has finally published my first design ever that was commissioned by them!

Cozy Crochet Socks <— Was originally called Rockin’ Socks are made with Lion Brand Sock Ease in Red Hots. It uses both Size C and D crochet hooks.

I am really thrilled that it is out and I can share!

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DONE DONE DONE!

Categories: knit projects socks

January 3rd, 2010 by Karen

Finally…

I started these socks for my daughter in July.. and then with a book contract.. they went on hold until this last week.

But they are DONE! The yarn used is

Black Trillium Fibre Studio Roman Blue Sock yarn in the Colorway “Cassie”. I had this yarn custom dyed for my daughter in her favorite brown an pink colors.

The pattern I used is

Sunday Swing Socks by Kristel Nyberg from the Summer 2009 issue of Knitty. The only difference I made in them was that I only did 2 repeats of the pattern instead of 5-7 of them so that they would be ankle socks rather than full length socks.

They Turned out pretty good don’t you think?

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Starting the New Year Right – SWATCHFIRE!

Categories: new year swatchfire

January 1st, 2010 by Karen

Happy 2010 everyone! I hope everyone’s started off well!

Mine started off with “burning of the swatch”. If you are on Twitter at all, you will hear designers talking about swatchfires. What is a swatchfire, you ask?

It all started one day when someone mentioned that their gauge swatch for a design “lied” to them. You know, you do a gauge swatch to painstakingly make sure your garment will be the right size, then wouldnt you know it, the actual garment’s gauge turns out totally different.. even with the exact same yarn and hook! So we talked about burning the original swatches in a “swatchfire”.

Then Tracie Barrett (@TracieCrochets on Twitter) Mentioned having a New Year’s Eve Swatchfire so that we all could appease the fiber gods for the New Year. The thought behind it was that if we burnt the swatches now.. all our swatches in 2010 would be truthful and kind to all designers.

So.. I thought I would share my Swatchfire with all of you:)