Save the Date: 5th Annual Kings County Fiber Festival

A beautiful autumn day, Saturday, October 8, 2016 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York the perfect setting for the Kings County Fiber Festival. From 10am to 6pm spend the day at the Old Stone House with many fiber enthusiasts in a Celebration of the Handmade.

A NEW HOME for STITCH THERAPY

JOSEPHINE'S SQUARES adding a border

 

Josephine will add a fifth color to create a Garter Stitch border on each individual square by picking up three stitches to four rows around.  Pick up your stitches then begin with a round of purls, alternating with a round of knit, place ring markers at each corner then increase one stitch outside each marker on the knit round -- work six rounds of Garter Stitch pattern then bind-off purlwise.  Sew squares together to form Mystery Blanket and work an additional border using the same pick-up formula and miter the four edges of your Mystery Blanket.

VARIATIONS on a BLANKET

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AFRICA

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The Mystery Blanket Stitch-Along reaches as far as the continent of Africa.  Today one of my returning customers, Robin, from South Africa came into Stitch Therapy. Robin is in Brooklyn, NY visiting her daughter for a few weeks, she will begin with Volume One using the Shulana Merino Cotton 135.  This is a smaller yarn than the pattern calls for so to make it larger an extra panel may have to be added. This is an opportunity to duplicate some of your favorite stitches.  She is getting about five stitches to one inch in the Merino/Cotton 135.

VOLUME TWO: IN DEMAND

This stitch-along has reached as far as Australia and is a virtual success. So far I have heard from teams of friendly knitters making the blanket as a baby shower gift and solo knitters using their subway time wisely. No matter how far the Mystery reaches the hookup is taking place online through Ravelry.com, Facebook.com and the right here.

As a stash buster this project is right on time - in NYC Ultra Alpaca is currently ahead but this afternoon Karabella's Aurora 8 in a pale gray was the yarn of choice.

Here is the link to the next set of stitches — one stitch more intriguing than the other.

Take the time to figure out how to count the stitches in the row repeat. For example if the instruction reads " *k2, yo, k1, k2tog. twice, k1, yo, k2; repeat from * to end." the count would be 10 stitches. The numbers add up as follows: 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 accordingly. The "yo" and the "k2tog" count as one each. Now, you do need two stitches to do a "k2tog" , however, once the "k2tog" has been done the results add up to one stitch. Secondly, the "yo" replaces the stitch that was decreased by knitting a "k2tog".

Please post your progress on Ravelry or use the badge to tag the project.

FYI, the front cover is the same for each volume being released, it does not represent the order in which you knit, but it is a map for sewing the blanket together. Unless you decide to map the squares out in your own way.

These images are from a few knitters that completed Volume One. As you know the stitches have come to you under the name of some of the worlds most prolific mystery writers - the true name of the stitches will be revealed at the end of the Mystery Blanket Stitch-Along.

Thanks for knitting along!