Cascadia eBook: 11 Patterns for your Entire Family

Cascadia: the mythical-sounding, temperate region bordering the West Coasts of Canada and the northern United States defined by the Cascades Mountain Range, in other words - the perfect place for year round knitting.  

 

Natives to the region, Amanda Milne and Fiona McLean have imbued their knit-centric events company, Knit Social, with a warm and creative atmosphere that is wholly infectious. Now they share the warmth and creativity of their home with you in their first book, Cascadia. They've gathered from the region’s abundant design talent to bring you 11 gorgeous sweaters, shawls, hats, socks, and other fun-to-knit, beautiful-to-wear garments.

 

For your ease and convenience follow the links after purchase to download this PDF.

Sivia Harding's Toe Ups for All!

Planning on hand knit Socks for a few lucky people on your gift list?  Harding's Toe Ups for All! offers you a template for "toe up" socks with traditional heel flap and gusset construction in seven adult sizes in fingering and sport weight yarns.

While her Journey Cable Socks are worked "top down" and are sized for all the generations of your family!  They feature a sinuous cable and are sized for baby, women’s medium and large in sport weight, and women’s medium in fingering weight.

Both of these patterns are available for instant download after purchase, just follow the links.  And visit Socks to see all of Harding's designs.

2 New Cardigan Designs by Mindie Tallack

Hathor & Menet

 

The wait has been worth it!  Mindie Tallack, of Duffers (revisited) and Little Duffers fame, has introduced her very first sweater patterns!

Hathor

A pretty cardigan, knit seamlessly from the top down with a garter slip stitch yoke and seed / moss stitch edgings, includes 7 women's sizes.

Menet

Also knit top down and seamless with a garter slip stitch pattern on the yoke in three alternating colors and a plain, stocking stitch body. Includes 6 child sizes.

3 New Lace Projects from Fiber Dreams

Calling all Lace Knitters 
Inspired by nature, travel & literature Laura Patterson offers you lace projects that are as beautiful as they are intriguing to knit. Knit in either a lace or fingering weight yarn create one of her latest designs for yourself, or for that special someone.

Aquitania

This crescent shaped shawl is worked from a long cast on, through the lace and garter stitch short rows for shaping, to the bind off edge.

Moonvine

Matching Moonvine cowl and Sunspots fingerless mitts make a very thoughtful gift.  A night-blooming morning glory? A bit of a contradiction, but there you go. But oh! can’t you just imagine the pure white blooms reflecting the light of a full moon? When planted on a trellis with any day-blooming variety, you’ll have showy blossoms from night through morning’s light. Lovely.  Moonvine is knit in the round, starting and ending with just a touch of garter stitch to help prevent curling. Once past the edging, every row is a pattern row—if you want to rest, you’ll need to take this into the garden when the morning light is full on your blossoming vines.

Sunspots

Sunspots are a bright orange variety of morning glory, another of my favorite flowers. Their small, brilliant blooms greet the sun each morning with a dazzling display.  Mitts are worked in the round in an all-over pattern, resulting in mitts that work equally well on either hand. Thumb gusset is worked in stockinette stitch.

Cecily

Cecily is worked in two pieces, each worked from the outer edge to the center. The two pieces are grafted together to form the finished shawl. The nupps are only on the outer edges. As each side the shawl progresses, the stitches become simpler.

Visit Fiber Dreams to see all her projects.

Winners of the Jane Thornley Giveaway

We have our 3 Winners !

1st Place eBook of their choice: pelicanknits 

2nd Place any Jane Thornley Pattern (not an eBook): Tapley’s Design or Shellca on Rav 

3rd Place any Jane Thornley Pattern (not an eBook): Grammye

Please email me at Sandrasingh@sandrasingh.com with the name of the pattern you desire!

And Thank You to everyone who entered!

October Newsletter: Fresh Designs for Kids - 1 eBook, 10 New Patterns

Happy October! Fall is in full swing, the kids are back in school and Halloween is around the corner. This month I'll continue to focus on gift knitting ideas and of course cool weather projects plus I have new designers to introduce to you! Speaking of designers you still have time to enter the Jane Thornley pattern giveaway, 3 winners will be announced Oct. 4th.

The latest in the Fresh Designs eBook series abounds with Fall (check out the Funkyds Vest), grade school (the Treads Hoodie) and Halloween projects (Birdboots & the Superkids sweater), Fresh Designs for Kids gives you a library of patterns to always have ready at your fingertips for knitting for baby, toddlers and school age children!  Filled with 10 fun, whimsical yet practical patterns to create for the special child in your life.  

Also stop by the Specials department to see what Yarns & Knitting Needles are On Sale and visit Cooperative Press to see all the eBooks in the Fresh Designs series. 

Summer Time Drive By...

Once again it was a crazy busy Summer with lots of travel to see family and friends....

Here I am with my new Great Niece Kamie.

Toffee sitting on my first sewing project in years, a cushion for my porch settee that turned out a bit to small, but Toffee didn't seem to mind one bit!

My youngest nephew Justin, a native Texan and all around boy's boy, showing off on his Pocket Rocket!

Here my DH and I are visiting some of my dearest friends Doug and Rose and their beautiful and talented children Jasmine and Mathew.

And once again Toffee, this time in front of my garden.