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Posted by Shillelagh on January 18, 2007, 9:54 pm
Hahahahaha
I used my 40% off coupon at Michael's today to buy The Knit Stitch by Sally
Melville..... I know this book has been out for a while, but I LOVE it!
I had heard of the Einstein Coat, and that has gone into my WIM's
Love the Baby Arnold coat - I have a pregnant step daughter, and am thinking
I'll make it for the baby
Love the Flat Top Hat & mitts.
I have the book full of sticky notes.......
My daughter gave me a gift card for Christmas for the local bookstore and I
picked up A Gathering of Lace by Meg Swansen. It too is fully of coloured
sticky notes. I don't have enough time left in my life to knit all this
stuff, but I'm going to give it a try (laugh)
I love looking through these books and finding so many good patterns!!
Shelagh
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Posted by The Other Kim on January 18, 2007, 10:30 pm
Shelagh wrote:
> Hahahahaha
>
> I used my 40% off coupon at Michael's today to buy The Knit Stitch by
> Sally
> Melville..... I know this book has been out for a while, but I LOVE
> it!
>
> I had heard of the Einstein Coat, and that has gone into my WIM's
> Love the Baby Arnold coat - I have a pregnant step daughter, and am
> thinking
> I'll make it for the baby
> Love the Flat Top Hat & mitts.
>
> I have the book full of sticky notes.......
My copies of that one and The Purl Stitch both are coated with sticky
notes. I also have the third volume, on color knitting, but have little
intention of making anything from it. I just don't like color knitting
unless it's self-striping or self-patterning yarn. Making my sister a
knock-off of Princess Diana's black sheep sweater was more than enough
to make me hate intarsia. All those bobbins...
> My daughter gave me a gift card for Christmas for the local bookstore
> and I
> picked up A Gathering of Lace by Meg Swansen. It too is fully of
> coloured
> sticky notes. I don't have enough time left in my life to knit all
> this
> stuff, but I'm going to give it a try (laugh)
I've had this one for quite some time. I made myself the lace shrug to
wear at my sister's wedding reception; I was in the wedding party, and I
wanted something other than the wrap to wear with the sleeveless dress
(I hate the way I look in sleeveless, and this had spaghetti straps
which look even worse on me). Got tons of compliments on it. I still
want to make some of the shawls in it, but those will wait a bit longer.
The book isn't going anywhere :-)
> I love looking through these books and finding so many good patterns!!
They're great fun. I just picked up Weekend Knitting by Melanie Falick,
and Last-Minute Knitted Gifts by Joelle Hoverson. Lots of fun and quick
stuff in both books. I already have the yarn picked out for two
pullovers and several pair of mittens/gloves <g>
The Other Kim
kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom
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Posted by bienchat@hotmail.com on January 19, 2007, 12:40 am
Heh Heh! I got Handknit Holidays by Melanie Falick for Christmas.
And thanks to the great customer appreciation coupon I got from the
LYS, I went down and got 250 Creative Knitting stitches, Harmony's 450
Knitting Stitches AND Harmony's 220 Aran Stitches. The coupon was so
good that 2 of these books were essentially free for moi! I still
have a few other books on my wish list, but I'm getting there. Tops is
that new book on Victorian Lace Knitting, love the white capelet!
Marie and the cats
Shillelagh wrote:
> Hahahahaha
>
> I used my 40% off coupon at Michael's today to buy The Knit Stitch by Sally
> Melville..... I know this book has been out for a while, but I LOVE it!
>
> I had heard of the Einstein Coat, and that has gone into my WIM's
> Love the Baby Arnold coat - I have a pregnant step daughter, and am thinking
> I'll make it for the baby
> Love the Flat Top Hat & mitts.
>
> I have the book full of sticky notes.......
>
> My daughter gave me a gift card for Christmas for the local bookstore and I
> picked up A Gathering of Lace by Meg Swansen. It too is fully of coloured
> sticky notes. I don't have enough time left in my life to knit all this
> stuff, but I'm going to give it a try (laugh)
>
> I love looking through these books and finding so many good patterns!!
>
> Shelagh
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Posted by Macaroni on January 19, 2007, 4:29 pm
> Hahahahaha
>
> I used my 40% off coupon at Michael's today to buy The Knit Stitch by
> Sally
> Melville..... I know this book has been out for a while, but I LOVE it!
>
> I had heard of the Einstein Coat, and that has gone into my WIM's
> Love the Baby Arnold coat - I have a pregnant step daughter, and am
> thinking
> I'll make it for the baby
> Love the Flat Top Hat & mitts.
>
> I have the book full of sticky notes.......
>
> My daughter gave me a gift card for Christmas for the local bookstore and
> I
> picked up A Gathering of Lace by Meg Swansen. It too is fully of
> coloured
> sticky notes. I don't have enough time left in my life to knit all this
> stuff, but I'm going to give it a try (laugh)
>
> I love looking through these books and finding so many good patterns!!
>
> Shelagh
>
Ha-ha back at you, I've had The Knit Stitch for a few years but probably
didn't get as a good a deal as you did. I bought it, not so much for the
patterns, but because I think her books are very well written and have
wanted it mostly for reference. Although I have not made any thing using
the patterns as written, I did used the Lots-of-choices Top as the basis for
a vest. One thing I eliminated were the buttons down the back which I think
would not be comfortable.
Have fun with your new books. Beware if you make the Einstein coat, I have
read comments elsewhere that it does grow lengthwise.
--
Jan in MN
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Posted by Shillelagh on January 19, 2007, 5:56 pm
>
> Have fun with your new books. Beware if you make the Einstein coat, I
have
> read comments elsewhere that it does grow lengthwise.
> Jan in MN
Yes, I had heard that, so would try to adjust accordingly. I have so many
WIM's on the list, I'm not sure when I'd get to it, but it's fun looking
;>).
I also read about adjusting for the amount of fabric under the arms.
Shelagh
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