kids clothes week challenge: fall 2010

Julia — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:56:32 +0000

You know I can’t refuse a challenge like that. Who wants to play, too?

Big Bows

Julia — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:39:14 +0000

And today, get inspired by some of the gorgeous cardigans people have made from my Big Bow Cardigan Pattern, now available in a collection of Ten Crochet Sweater Patterns for Women over at Interweave’s:

Ravelry ID: kginger
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Ravelry ID: skydramini
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Ravelry ID: Trex
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See also her Crochet Me Blogpost about it.

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Top Ten Crochet Sweaters

Julia — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:14:07 +0000

I was pleasantly surprised when I got a letter stating that both the Big Bow Cardigan and the Northern Dreams Pullover were “top-selling” crochet patterns at the Interweave Store. Who knew?

You can now get an e-book called Best of 2010: Top Ten Crochet Sweater Patterns for Women at the Interweave Online Store. The Big Bow Cardigan and the Northern Dreams Sweater are included in this collection..

To inspire you to work up one of those two designs I want to show you a couple of pictures of what others have made of them. Let’s start with the Northern Dreams Pullover and keep the Big Bow Cardigan for another post. Thanks to everyone who let me use their picture.

Ravelry ID: Freckle
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Ravelry ID: Rufarocrafty
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Ravelry ID: lazada
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Ravelry ID: StaciaZ
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Ravelry ID: LeahB
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Sewing in July

Julia — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:31:04 +0000

Here’s what’s been produced since I last posted about my sewing. A skirt for myself from Clothkits and a pair of last-minutes shorts for the 3.5y old. There won’t be any sewing in August, but I’ll get back to it in September for sure.

Sewing Challenge Update

Julia — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:47:48 +0000

I’ve been thinking long and hard about opening another blog for the sewing. But in the end, I have to be realistic and tell myself that right now I just don’t have the time for it. But I feel the sewing has no real place here either. So for the time being, I’ll stick to sort of a compromise which is occasional updates about what and how I am doing. How about a monthly post?
I am glad to report that the sewing challenge is the only challenge I am not behind on. I have made 31 “things” and this is week 28. I will certainly fall behind a little bit over the summer holidays, but I don’t think that’s a big problem. Some recent pics:

Anna Cardigan

Julia — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:45:54 +0000

This was actually my travel project when I went to Seattle, but I am just getting round to posting about it. It sat there waiting for some kind of closure solution for weeks now.

It’s the Anna Cardigan by Robyn Chachula, available in her upcoming book “Baby Blueprint Crochet”, it is also available for free in a collection of 6 baby patterns on the Crochet Me website.
I did not swatch for this (I always do for adult garments though), but with a baby pattern I sometimes like to go the “if it doesn’t fit now, it will later”-route. I followed the instructions for the 12 month size and it turned out rather bigger (well, it’ll fit her later, right?). It will actually be quite some time later because, look, big 3 ½ year old sister will wear it in the meantime.
Please forgive the “styling” of the photo shoot. It would surely look much better with a blouse underneath, but it really was too hot for fiddling with layers, so I just put it on her for a minute and took a couple of pics.

I used 3 skeins of Rowan RYC Cashsoft 4 Ply. Ravelry project page is here.

Phoenix en Français

Julia — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:59:32 +0000

Depuis le temps que j’ai voulu faire ça! Enfin, enfin, un de mes patrons est disponible en Français dans la boutique d’Annette Petavy. C’est elle qui s’est chargée de la traduction (car si ça aurait été moi, vous auriez encore attendu un bon moment).
Voici le lien pour acheter le patron en Français : Phoenix – mitaines.
Pour celles qui préfèrent la version Anglaise, rien ne change, c’est toujours ici sur mon site ou sur Ravelry.

Finally one of my patterns is available in French, thanks to Annette Petavy who’s offering the translation in her shop. As for the English version, nothing changes, it’s still available here on my site or through Ravelry.

Julie and Julia

Julia — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:01:59 +0000

Thursday morning I took the bus to Redmond to go to a stitch group which was super fun. And who did I meet there? My favorite tech editor, Julie Armstrong Holetz herself!

Back in Seattle

Julia — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:36:05 +0000

Wednesday I headed back to Seattle by bus. Upon arrival Chris from Pursuite of Fiber was already waiting for me at the bus stop. She was so nice to drive me around to two yarn stores and have some cupcakes with me. The first was the Fiber Gallery where, blinded by all that gorgeous yarn I usually only see online, I forgot to take a single picture. What I did not forget was to buy some:

It’s all Madelinetosh yarns, the orange and yellow ones are sock weight which I would like to use for a crochet design and… well socks for the yellow. And the sort of teal color is lace weight.

I don’t actually remember the name of the second store. And I only have a super blurry picture of Chris with the cupcakes. So, well, the Madelinetosh pics must be enough.

Vancouver

Julia — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:49:55 +0000

On Tuesday I hopped on the train to Vancouver (lovely train ride by the way, it goes all along the coast, way nicer than the bus I took on the way back). I wasn’t off the train for 30 minutes, when I found myself in Sweet Georgia Yarn’s dye studio. I had never seen a dye studio before, so that was kind of cool.
I got a skein of her Merino Silk Lace in raspberry.

The next stop was Urban Yarns where I did not leave empty handed either.

Indigo Moon 100% merino wool (superwash) hand-dyed, in Majestic Purple.