Meet the Woman Behind Mr. Fox Connie Mitchell is a participant in our Independent Designer program. She used Peter Pan DK to create the adorable Mr. Fox. Her published designs on Ravelry include all sorts of cute stuffed critters, blankies, and baby items. We interviewed Connie so you could get to know her better. Please take a look at her work, and consider buying one (or more!) of her patterns! Sasha for Skein Shop (SS): Hi Connie, could you please introduce yourself to the Skein Shop community? Connie Mitchell (CM): Hi, I'm Connie Mitchell, and I love to create fun things. I am a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. SS: You designed a knit toy for us. How long have...
Thank you to Rebecca D. for sending in these photos! She'll be receiving a coupon for 10% off because she got some of the yarn from us. If you would like to have your project featured (and get a coupon in gratitude), please read this post for all the juicy details. Rebecca is working on a blanket made from Ella Rae Seasons. It's a great choice for a blanket because it's warm and washable! She says: Thanks for the speedy delivery of my Seasons! Now I can finish my blanket! This looks like corner-to-corner crochet (C2C). C2C is a fun technique that is great for showing off color-changing yarn like you see here. It can also be used to create...
How to Find Patterns for a Particular Yarn So you've just discovered that the Schulana is on sale, and you want to get some. But what do you make with it? We have a few suggestions, and at the same time we'll show you how to use some of Ravelry's pattern-finding features. For today, we'll be focusing on Merino Cotton 135. Step 1: Navigate to the yarn page. At the top of every screen in Ravelry, there are tabs across the top. One of them is for yarn. Clicking on that tab takes you to this page, where you can type in the name of the yarn you want to learn about in the search box. Step 2: Select the...
Thank you to Alana M. for sending in our very first community blog post! She'll be receiving a coupon for 10% off because she got the yarn from us. If you would like to have your project featured (and get a coupon in gratitude), please read this post for all the juicy details. Here what Alana wrote to us: I knew I wanted to make the Quindici shawl the moment I saw it on Ravelry-- great colors and great textures, and a chance to learn more stitches! The shawl consists of 15 parts (Quindici = Fifteen in Italian) that are repeats of four different stitch patterns. It was my first foray into reading a pattern of more than one page,...
A Provisional Cast On for Many Purposes! Judy's Magic Cast On, first published in Knitty's Spring 2006 issue, was presented as a new way to start toe-up socks. The beauty of this cast on, compared to other methods of beginning toe-up socks, was that it neatly and evenly put stitches on both needles while forming a perfect row of purl bumps on the back of the work. If you do not already know how to execute Judy's Magic Cast On, the photo tutorial on Knitty is, of course, an excellent resource, as is Cat Bordhi's demonstration video where she shows how to eliminate the problem of half the stitches being mounted backwards on the needle. However, this fabulous cast on is...
