Yarnival! - Issue 12
Welcome to the September ‘07 edition of Yarnival! I was worried that there wouldn’t be many submissions, given that August is the time for heat and vacations. Not so! The knitters brought the goods, and I’m here to bring them to you:
Last-Minute Wedding Shawl Smackdown!
Summer is the time for weddings. Apparently it’s also crunch time for shawl knitting! These two ladies impressed my (handknit) socks off with their feats of speed and deadline knitting.
Kelley knit her wedding veil in two months. On size 1 needles. Damn!
SJ says “Many of my SnB friends thought I was crazy for casting on a mere month before the big day, but I finished with two weeks to spare and I couldn’t be happier with the results!”
Fee Fie FOOOOO Fum!
Lisa finished her Hot Ticket, with the cutest model around.
Kim submitted Lorraine’s Guenevere jacket, a fair-isle wonder!
Sockpalooza wrapped up at the beginning of August, and Irishgirlieknits has a little letter for her sock pal. I wonder if the socks ever made it into the mail?
Lindsay finished a glamorous shawl for a glamorous person. Her post is full of details about the “tangles” of the Frost Flowers and Leaves shawl, definitely worth a read!
Claire finished an absolutely stunning scarf (and baby knits, too). Bonus: porpoises!
Janet says, “The Rusted Root that Vanessa knit was an exercise in tenacity! She documented the ‘adventure’ to its successful (SURPRISE!) conclusion and I was impressed with her dogged determination to make this RIGHT and wearable.”
Some mid-issue miscellany - knits that defy categorization
Caro says, “I’m just so stoked that these girls all took time to knit something for a knitter. Who else can appreciate exactly how much time went into the project.” Awwww! <wipes tear>
Heather cushions the back-to-school pain with a trip to the LYS on the way home from work.
Deb tells a yarn (ha!) about the dangers of ponds. Beware!
Marg. needs a swift so she can solve her avoidance issues.
A grammar lesson, the fibery way
Emily H-K teaches us how to conguate. I wish middle school assignments were this lovely!
Kim nominated Scrubberbum’s post on knitting in all contexts.
You learn something new every day
Kristy demonstrates how to flip a charted lace pattern. So simple, yet so, so useful when making lovely sock symmetry.
Stella shows us her steeking technique, complete with video! As she says, “Be brave, be very brave, eeek, it’s a steeek!” Indeed!
Elizabeth brings us her gorgeous Ophelia pattern, a perfect knit right now for Indian summers and southern climates.
Meg reviews When Bad Things Happen to Good Knitters. The story of my life, really.
A bit of rumination
Why knit socks? Elemmaclitur ponders his reasons. Then he flashes the biggest pile of Wollmeise I’ve ever seen!
Lindsay takes control of her creations with destruction.
Jocelyn takes pleasure in both the little and not so little things. She also brings us this issue’s Yarnival hunk!
The End
That’s all for this issue of Yarnival! Don’t forget to show everyone a little comment love, and submit your entries for next month here. Lucky Issue 13 will be at Stitch n’ Sue mid-October, be there or be felted!
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Awesome issue, Kelly. Thanks for the link. I can’t believe you put this together AND did your charts, you’re amazing!!
Yay!! I’m in the issue!!!
Thanks!!! Great issue, btw!
What’s Yarnival? Just a submission thing?
what a wonderful lit of entries you have put together!
and thanks for including moi in the line up
stell
Thanks for supplying such a great Yarnival fix!
Thanks for including my little visual contemplation on the verb “to Spin”! Now I’m of to read all the other ‘articles’ (haha, grammar pun, get it?) Hooray for Yarnival!
Thanks so much for including my little frog pond tale! I didn’t even know it was in this issue until I linked from a friend’s blog!! :)
[…] Issue 13, September 15th, 2007: kelp! knits […]
Very cool — thanks!
Great Issue. Thanks. :)
[…] that my blog entry on ripping as well as my Frost Flowers & Leaves round-up were included in this month’s Yarnival!, generously hosted by Kelpknits. If you’re a knitter and you haven’t checked it out, make it […]
Thank you so much for including me in this month’s issue — I’m really impressed by the tales of super-fast wedding knitting — what beautiful work!
Yarnival is such a cool concept — thanks for putting in the time to keep it going :)
Lindsay
Thanks for putting this together, K! looks great - lots to check out now!
wow! what a great issue! thanks for doing this! :o)
and oh my goodness that wedding shawl is AMAZING!!!
i covet that thing sooo much. and i love how she turned it into a veil too!!! i’m definitely going to consider doing that for my wedding! fingers crossed…ek.
Thanks so much for putting this issue together! Everyone’s submissions are so good, I’m almost embarrassed to be in there (but thanks for including me :) ).