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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YOUR PERSONAL PALETTE

Derbra's Mystery Blanket

Stitch play was not the only idea behind the Stitch Therapy Mystery Blanket Stitch-Along but of course the benefit is seeing how much you know as a knitter. Reading stitch instructions and executing the different increases and decreases is most of the work, the added value is selecting the colors - We all have a personal palette colors that we are drawn to on a the regular, this blanket gives you many choices -- Debra picked and tones with a touch of robin's egg blue. 

Take the opportunity to experiment with a variety of hues from your surroundings, choose the colors from your livingroom rug or from the palette that floods your closet.  In this blanket your options are endless, some people have a favorite color and it may have been their favorite since childhood. Multi-color, solid or a combination of both as the stitch reveals itself

Use the button on www.Ravelry.com to show your participation.

If you need help the knitting circles will begin again at the end of  September.

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.