Do your wrists ever ache after a long knitting session? Or your shoulders, or your back? Then this book is for you.
Carson Demers is a physical therapist and an ergonomics expert, and in Knitting Comfortably he explains how “you can improve your safety, efficiency, and productivity in knitting.” By identifying ergonomic risks, presenting stretches and exercises, and explaining when professional help is in order, Knitting Comfortably can help you keep discomfort at bay.
The book is expected to be available by the end of March. But hurry! Pre-orders placed before March 15 qualify for free shipping.
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been blown away by the response to the brioche wrap that I finished in January. I never intended to write up the pattern – shoot, I don’t even know what purple yarn I used, as I found it unlabeled in my stash. But students in my Beginning Brioche class repeatedly asked where to get the pattern. Well, I’m happy to say that Jesse is now available on Ravelry!
Truthfully, Jesse is a lot of fun to wear, gray side out or purple side out, wrapped around the neck or simply draped over the shoulders.
Bonus: the pattern features both written instructions and a stitch map. So each knitter gets to follow their own preferred style of instruction... though, of course, my preference is for the stitch map!
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One of the greatest joys of teaching is seeing what former students do with their new skills. And so I was tickled pink when Jane stopped by my classroom at Stitches West to show off this magnificent shawl:
She had taken my Wedge Shawl Design class last year, and like many others, had fallen in love with the idea of knitting a top-down shawl composed of three wedges rather than just two. You can see here how that construction yields a shawl that fits well, and that has a straight line across the back instead of a point. What you probably can’t see in this photo are the exquisite beads, or the lovely picot bind-off. Nice job, Jane!
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If you follow me on Instagram, you know that it dawned on me the other day that Stained Glass Windows would probably look much better if it used bunny ears decreases. So I sketched out a solution on paper:
And created the corresponding stitch map, and swatch:
Yup. I do like this new version better.
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Beginning Brioche has proven so wildly popular, a second session has been added to my schedule at Stitches United! I’m looking forward to getting twice as many knitters hooked on this technique.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m also teaching at Yarnover, the Houston Fiber Fest, and Stitches Midwest. And I think I’m allowed to spread the news: at Stitches West last week, Benjamin Levisay announced that XRX will host a new event, Stitches SoCal, in Pasadena in November of 2018. Yay! I hope I’m selected to teach there.
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At Stitches West last week, I had Friday afternoon free. And while I considered spending that rare bit of free time visiting the Lace Museum in Sunnyvale, in the end I chose instead to visit the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. There, I was treated to an exhibit of amazing tapestries, like this one inspired by the landscape of southeast Washington state:
If ever you get a chance to visit this museum, do! I hope to go back sometime and see some quilts... or maybe they’ll have some other sort of fabulous textile on display.
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