Is Mom a Knitter? Mother's Day May 12th

Easy Felted Bag 

by Laura Nelkin 

Week days running errands, weekends visiting farmer's markets the Easy Felted Bag does it all in style and ease.  And the only extra hardware you need to create it is a button.  Mother's Day is right around the corner, you still have time to create this roomy bag for mom or if mom is a knitter gift her the Kit!  

Kits with Schaefer's Miss Priss yarn are available and in honor of mom Miss Priss is 15% Off.

Crescendo by Seni Designs

Meet 

Prana, Hera, Nenúfar, Rosiris & Pétala 

all worked in pretty lace stitches. 

I'm very excited to introduce knitwear designer Ines Sousa and her new eBook Crescendo.  Sousa's collection of these 5 lace shawls is another classic you'll want to add to your pattern library.  Each shawl, Prana, Hera, Nenúfar, Rosiris and Pétala, is seamless and worked using different methods, stitches and shapes.  Be ready for your Summer, grab a skein of your favorite sock yarn, Malabrigo Sock, Tosh Sock or Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock and enjoy working these designs!

Hera

Crescendo is an instant download, follow the links after check out to access the PDF.

Petala

Looking for more yarn ideas for these beautiful designs, visit Fingering.

Nenufar

Prana

Rosiris

Please watch my blog for a special introduction of Sousa and her work.

Fresh Designs Mittens & Gloves

10 Mitten & Glove Patterns 

you'll always want to have 

on Hand! 

Keep this classic close at hand!  A new book in the Fresh Designs Series:Mittens & Gloves features 10 unique designs which marry functionality with beauty.  And this eBook is available as an instant download, just follow the links after purchase.

Mock Cable Techno Mitts

Designed by Laura Nelkin of Nelkin Designs.

Equus Quagga

Like what you see here but want even more ideas? VisitGloves & Mittens.

Acantha

Visit Cooperative Press to see all their eBooks.

Visit Cooperative Press to see all their eBooks.

Ode to Spring VIII: To Market To Market

This little piggy went to market,

This little piggy stayed home,

This little piggy had roast beef,

This little piggy had none,

And this little piggy went wee wee wee all the way home. 

Go Off to Market in Style!

Schaefer's Ashlee's Market Bag

Gardiner Yarn Works' Farmer's Market Bag

Sunflower Knitting/Beach Bag

 

by Noni

Ilga Leja's Distant Hills

East Gable Shawl by Purl Bumps

East Gable

 Grab a skein of your favorite sock yarn and work Purl Bumps' top down, triangular shawl East Gable!

This feminine, pretty and fresh shawl is just like Anne and was inspired by the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery.  The pattern is easier than it looks, with almost all patterning done on right side rows, and its easily enlarged by adding repeats to the main lace pattern.

Follow the links after purchase to download this PDF & visit Purl Bumps to see all of Judy Marples' designs.

Ode to Spring VII: Transitional Knits

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. 

You know how it is with an April day 

When the sun is out and the wind is still, 

You're one month on in the middle of May. 

But if you so much as dare to speak, 

A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, 

A wind comes off a frozen peak, 

And you're two months back in the middle of March. 

Robert Frost (1874-1963) 

from Two Tramps in Mud Time (1936) 

8 Beautiful, yet practical Transitional Knits

Lonicera by Through the Loops

Shawls to Knit Collection by Lily Go
eBook features 4 Shawl Designs

Jane Thornely's Two Shrugs Water Garden and Shoreline

Nelkin Designs' Cayden

Hanging Garden Stole by Sivia Harding

Free Summer Top Pattern by Berroco: Pulina

Pulina

Easy to knit and easy to wear, Berroco's Pulina is a garter stitch tank edged in simple ribbing which will transition you smoothly from Spring into Summer.  Knit in Berroco's new 100% cotton tape yarn Karma.  Karma's intriguing mesh construction, airy quality and machine wash-ability make it the perfect yarn for Summer.

Karma

The Pulina pattern is a FREE, simply print the page.  You can also purchase the Pulina Kit, which includes 10 dyeloted skeins of Karma, and you'll save 10% on this yarn.