Ghost Dancer

Melanie Berg has a new pattern called Ghost Dancer and you can purchase it on Ravelry.

Ghost Dancer is sure to turn heads with its intricate geometric pattern — but you don’t have to tell anyone how easy it actually was! Thanks to the mosaic technique, this lovely triangle shawl is far less complicated to knit than it looks. 

Slipped stitches create the design, with a wide ribbed border to finish off the edge.

The shawl is knit with four colours of fingering weight yarn. 

A shipment is on the way from Atenti. Here is a brand new embroidered fabric that is amazing and we will have Hope Baskets made with it.

Fred found dad’s front garden. There are many trampled plants.

Beth doesn’t have much room at her desk.

The new bed for the backseat of dad’s truck. It’s now the office bed.

Dad has to be up at 3am to drive to Windsor. They are pouring an arena floor tomorrow. Dad loves pour day and wouldn’t miss it for anything. We are keeping Fred overnight. Wish us luck.

Ambah’s Daily Pattern Sale Starts Next Week

Ambah has a new pattern.This is called the Cosmos Blossom Shawl and you can purchase it on Ravelry.

Knit yourself a gorgeous floral lace shawl.  

Inspired by the beautiful crochet granny square garments I have been seeing everywhere, it occurred to me I could create a lace knit shawl joined together in a similar way.  

A deep dive into creating the perfect lace square later and I became obsessed with all the possibilities this project lends itself to. The square block would also make a wonderful throw - as per the Radvent Throw.  

There are so many options with this cosy piece. Choose between fingering or DK weight yarn and express yourself with a bold colourful patchwork piece, a neutral, muted shawl or try both, using a neutral and adding a bright pop of colour.  

Perfect for stash diving, and the fingering weight squares will use up those 20-gram minis you’ve been collecting. Or treat yourself to some beautiful new yarn and knit yourself a piece to treasure. 

Pattern includes both charted and written instructions for the Cosmos Blossom Lace and a pinhole cast on video tutorial.

Photos © Ambah O’Brien

 While I am talking about Ambah

This is from Ambah’s Blog

A daily pattern sale!

Join me for my annual Knit August promotion created to showcase some of my all time favourite designs. Every day in August I feature a surprise pattern of the day from my catalog with an automatic 50% discount.
There are a few ways to keep track of the daily featured pattern; sign up here to receive the Knit August pattern reveal e-mail, follow me on Instagram, Facebook or join my Ravelry group.

Each day I’ll share the newly featured pattern – it is always a surprise, I often don’t know myself until the day which will be next featured pattern! I can tell you this though; to allow for international timezones each Knit August promoted pattern will last for 48 hours.

I have knit many of Ambah’s patterns and we have had many of her patterns knit up for store samples. She writes a great pattern that is easy to follow. 

Here are some that I have knit.

Grevillea. I didn’t realize that I never showed a picture of Grevillea after it was blocked. There was no way to go outside for pictures (it is pouring rain here) so here is one from in the store. I love this shawl. I wore it when I was in Chicago and everyone at the show commented on it.

Kimba

Bambara

Xanthe

Lamina

Lilli Pilli knit by Cathy.

Our Bambara store sample.

And this isn’t all of them. As you can see I am a big Ambah fan. Her patterns are timeless. I think you’ll want to watch the sale.

Beach Nights

Deidre has a new project. The pattern is called Beach Nights and you can purchase it on Ravelry.

Is there any better feeling than walking along the beach as the sun goes down, listening to the water crashing along the shore and smelling the salty night air? Waves of fishtail lace and colorful seashells come to life on your knitting needles in this asymmetric triangular shawl. Choose your palette to create a look that is soft and subtle, bold and bright, or a rainbow shining over the water, ready for whatever the Beach Nights might bring. 

Lace is both charted and written, but experience with lace is recommended for this intermediate design. A video tutorial is included with the pattern to demonstrate the conch stitch.

These are the colours we are using - I like the finished shawl and didn’t want to mess around with the look.

Practically Perfect Sock - Love + Leche (2 skeins)

Practically Perfect Sock Smalls - 1 skein each

-Whisper

-Himalayan Salt

-Beach Please

-Teddy

-Kisses

-Roasted

Deidre is also making herself a Log Cabin Afghan and asked about the new colours of Noro Kureyon. These should be in the store by the end of August. 

I need a few more squares for my afghans and thought about taking Kureyon to the cottage next weekend. Now that I’m looking at the colours again I’m going to wait for these arrive. They will be a great addition to the afghans. Yes, that is plural. I have many squares made - more than enough for one afghan so I’ll be making two.

Speaking of the cottage - I will be closing early a few Saturdays this month so that I can drive up on Saturday afternoon instead of Sunday morning. 

The store will be open from 11am-2pm (not the normal 4pm) on

Saturday August 5th (long weekend)

Saturday August 26th

Saturday September 2nd (long weekend)

Fred is learning about cookie time in the office.

Janice is laid up after foot surgery and has been knitting away on her Alpine Bloom. Here is the lace pattern for the first sleeve. I haven’t picked up my needles for a few days. It’s time to get them out. Alpine Bloom isn’t going to knit itself.

Flowers

Meet the Pressed Flowers Socks. You can purchase the pattern on Ravelry. I loved making the Pressed Flowers Shawl.

The Pressed Flowers socks are worked from the cuff down to the toe with an afterthought heel. The pattern is written using the magic loop method, please substitute whatever method of knitting a small circumference you prefer.

Use coupon code “allsummer” for 20% off all self published Savory Knitting patterns 7/27/2023- through end of day 7/31/2023

Yarn 

400 yards sock or fingering weight yarn, approximately 250 yards (230m) MC and 150 yards (138m) CC 

Here are some colour combinations. I went bright!

Hedgehog Twist Sock. Purr and A Day in May

Flamingo and Compote. Compote isn’t online yet - I will try and do that tomorrow.

Wish and Puppy Love

Practically Perfect Sock. Be Hoppy and May 23 from the Crazy Beautiful Club collection.

Lemongrass and Vacay

Set Sail and Ti Amo

Tealicious and Pansy.

These are just some suggestions. I think you can use any two colours of fingering weight yarn as long as there is contrast.

This morning Mr. UPS brought in a huge box from Emma’s. Practically Perfect Sock has been updated. I will do the rest tomorrow. There are a lot of Practically Perfect Smalls in the order.

Fred had playtime in the yard after dinner.

He was so tired he couldn’t stand up to drink.