Doreen’s beautiful sweater

Doreen stopped in this morning beaming. She had on her Happy Camp Sweater and it is amazing!

Doreen used Dyed in the Wool Wololo for the main colour with Patagonia for the flowers. She loved making it so much that she’s going to knit it again for her grand daughter. Doreen knits a lot of sweaters and this will be the first time she will knit the same pattern twice.

Grevillia is growing. I’m about to start the eighth skein.

Happy Saturday evening. I’m moving back to my chair to knit. I’ve started watching the Lincoln Lawyer and I’m part way through the second season. I need to keep watching to see what comes next.

Douglas Cardi

We received a huge shipment of Cascade yesterday. 220 and 220 Heathers. The website has been updated. Now I need to unpack the boxes. 

This is the Douglas Cardi (pattern purchased on Ravelry) by Andrea Mowry. We knit our store sample in the third size with Cascade 220 Heathers. Lynn thought it would be too big for her but it is perfect.

The Douglas Cardi is a grandpa-style cardigan complete with stripes, big pockets, and a relaxed fit. Named for my father, who is now fondly known as Grandpa Doug to my kiddos, it reminds me of when I spruced up my school uniform with my own grandpa’s golfing cardigan when I was in middle school. I love to amp up my cozy with this sweater no matter the outfit! This sweater is knit from the bottom up with afterthought pockets and a sewn on button band.

This is Lynn’s cardigan. Also knit with 220 Heathers

We finally have all the colours for our cardigan kits back in stock.

We also received 4 colours of Lang Cloud. 2 colours were a restock and 2 colours are brand new. We have more colours on backorder including brand new colours coming this fall.

Mountain. Diana is going to knit us a store sample in this colour. What pattern? The Step by Step Sweater by Florence Miller. There are 175 projects on Ravelry using Cloud so I know it will be a beautiful sample for the store.

Violet

I didn’t get pictures of Diana’s sweater because we had torrential rain here. The great thing about the rain is the drop in temperature. 

Antipodes Sweater

I always think of the Rhinebeck Sweater as my showstopper for the year - and this one has a little bit of everything! Very interesting saddle shoulder construction, stripes, stranded colorwork, and faux seams a la The Weekender! I can’t wait for October!

This sweater is worked from the top down, seamlessly. We begin with the saddle shoulder, then pick up stitches for the back and fronts separately. Once the yoke is completed, we will join to work the body in the round. The sleeve stitches are picked up from the armhole openings and worked in the round.

You can purchase the pattern for Antipodes on Ravelry. 

Photos © Andrea Mowry

This morning my truck was in at the dealership for an oil change. I brought my iPad with me and worked while I was waiting. Kits for Anitpodes are on the website.

From the dealership I came to the store and started putting together new combinations.

Happy Birthday Beth!!! 

Baby Jackson on the day Beth met him.

Now working on the rest of the kits and then writing a newsletter. I still haven’t unpacked the Malabrigo yet and we have four more boxes coming tomorrow.😂

Lots of boxes

We have two brand new colours of Dyed in the Wool. This is Tough Love

Tender Thoughts.

This is Goldie. Not a new colour but this batch is very different than previous batches.

Ranunculus. Our current stock has lots of yellow in it - the new batch is beautiful. More pinks, peaches and mauves.

The bright turquoise is a brand new colour of Plump - Last Splash.

The website has been updated with everything from Spincycle.

There are two more boxes to unpack. These are from Malabrigo.

• Rios
• Washted
• Sock
• Ultimate Sock

I have added the yarn to the website and will get the boxes unpacked tomorrow.

The pattern for Andrea Mowry’s Rhinebeck sweater comes out tomorrow. I don’t have any information except that it’s knit in fingering weight with Dyed in the Wool. I put together a few combinations.

For these combinations I used Kathmandu Fingering with Dyed in the Wool.

18 with Ghost Ranch

22 with Ghost Ranch

22 with Goldie

15 with Ranunculus

27 with Petrichor

15 with Tough Love

22 with Tender Thoughts

I will put together more tomorrow when I have all the information. I think that Le Petit Lambswool will work for the main colour but I want to see the pattern and some of the finished sweaters before making that recommendation.

Now it’s time to relax and knit. It was a busy day.

Happy Camp Sweater

Deidre stopped in yesterday afternoon with our Happy Camp Sweater. It is incredible.

You can purchase the pattern on Ravelry.

Yarns

Starke 6 - 2404 x 3

Arroyo

Hollyhock x 1

Natural x 1

Our sample is the 3rd size.

It was late in the day and starting to rain. I took a quick photo and will get better photos the next time Lynn is in the store. I was so excited about the sweater that I had to share now. This has me motivated to sew the ends in on my first Happy Camp and get back to knitting the second one.

I did a thing today. Dad and I are flying to St. John’s, NL in two weeks. It was a trip that he and my mom were going to take. It was a trip we were talking about for next summer but I decided that we should do it now. He is doing great so we’re jumping on an airplane for a few days. We had a great time on our train trip and now we’re going to visit another Canadian coast. 

We have plane tickets and a car rented. I’m going to book us to go whale watching (two different tours because you can’t see enough whales) and a hotel after I hit ‘Publish’. 

The store will be closed from Sunday July 19th until Friday July 24th. 

The fifth colour is almost finished.