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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 10:53:22 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shaping Lace: Decreasing]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:31:44 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Announcing The Poetry Winners!]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:41:42 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Knitting for Men: Modifying the Brick Pullover]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:49:42 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Finally: A Gallery With Men In It!]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 11:03:26 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Eunny Galleries (AKA The IK Editor Becomes A Gallery Gal)]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:54:23 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Summer Knits Gallery, Part Two!]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:50:34 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Summer Knits Galleries: Part One]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:22:57 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[It's Summer Preview Time!]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:35:23 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Secrets of The Yarn Collectors]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:56:04 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Are You A Yarn Collector?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:41:36 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Tips and Tricks for Adding a Knitted Hem]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:34:57 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Adding a No-Roll Hem to a Stockinette Sweater]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:12:15 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Announcing the Readers' Choice Award Winners]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:27:39 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Silk Cocoons, Yarn Choices, and Free Stuff]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:19:19 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Yarn For The Gathered Pullover: What I Chose and Why]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:31:29 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Choosing The Right Yarn: Felting]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:59:43 MDT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Girl Who Loved Fiber Tools (plus making your own drop spindle!)]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:32:05 MST</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Spinning The Rest of The Story]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:30:24 MST</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Discover The Secrets of Yarn: Learn to Spin!]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:27:59 MST</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Online Knitting Tool: Waist Shaping Calculator]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:22:06 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:00:00 MST</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Decreases and Increases for Sweater Knitting]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:09:12 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:24:07 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:46:54 MST</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Free Pattern: Slouch Rib Cardigan]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:00:05 MST</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Waist Shaping: Choose Your Curves]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:31:00 MST</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Waist Shaping: The Math, Hem to Hip]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:34:42 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:00:52 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:38:32 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:36:02 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:34:05 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:22:58 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:40:17 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:36:11 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:20:53 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:31:59 MST</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[It's Time For The Spring Gallery! (Part One)]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:27:07 MST</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Did you know? Inside your closet are some great tools to help you knit to fit. They're called "the clothes you already own." (Yes, I know, that's a very technical term, but we'll muddle through together somehow.) You already have a collection of tops, tanks, sweaters, cardigans, and jackets, all of which can tell you a LOT about what size sweater to knit for yourself. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:31:39 MST</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The final count for the Spring Gallery garments is in&#151;and the results are very telling: Everyone wanted to see those little cardigans, the ones that caused so many comments last week, both positive and negative. Here's the lineup you chose for our Gallery Gals to model for you:]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:19:25 MST</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:50:38 MST</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Last winter, to celebrate the publication of our editor's choice collection, The Best of Interweave Knits, we asked you, our readers, to nominate YOUR favorite Knits patterns. We received thousands of nominations, and we are now proud to announce Your Top Ten Readers' Choice Award Finalists:]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:32:24 MST</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[So I guess the question on everyone's mind is: What do the Spring garments look like on women who are not professional models? You know what that means: It's time for another Knitting Daily Gallery!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:44:10 MST</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's an Interweave tradition: Whenever a new issue is ready, a few of us gather for what we fondly call "Story Time." Since there is usually only one "proof" copy, we pull our chairs close together around the lucky person holding the One Copy, who carefully, sloooowwwllly turns the pages and shows them around to a crowd as rapt as any listening to the adventures of The Velveteen Rabbit. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:47:08 MST</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[I love it when you readers surprise me. When I picked out the three candidates for today's free pattern and asked you to vote on which one you wanted, I thought I knew which one you would pick: Matador, because that's the one that is being chatted about on several forum threads and that has been oh-so popular since it was published.I was wrong. The one YOU liked best [...]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:44:13 MST</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every knitter has his or her own way of resolving the inevitable knitting mistakes. We shall skip over the painful first four stages of shock, denial, bargaining, and anger (for those are perhaps best worked through in a closed room with a glass of something soothing close to hand, and the music turned way up to mask the wails and screams) and sail somewhat serenely right on through to the final stage: The Fix.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:50:59 MST</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[How To Mess Up Your Knitting Big Time On Live TV]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[You all had so many wonderful suggestions and ideas regarding what Knitting Daily could do to help you be a more fearless (or a more joyful!) knitter. I've asked our wonderful customer service folks to help me collate all your responses. Once that's done, I can start putting together a plan for future Knitting Daily posts which incorporates all that good stuff you suggested. Thank you&#151;and stay tuned for what comes next!Meanwhile, I am going to distract you with a story of one knitter's attempt to be fearless, and how it went just a wee bit wrong...and then how it came out all right in the end again.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[So, what exactly are people afraid of? I can't imagine that people are actually afraid of knitting, it's just string and sticks.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:45:04 MST</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[And the first prize winner is...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[More Yarn Spree Love: Our Second Prize Winner!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[You know, it's really fun to give yarn money to knitters. You are all so excited about the possibility of winning, and when the winners finally are announced, you are so delightful and celebrate right along with them. I get the feeling that if we were able to arrange a Knitting Daily field trip to help cheer on Gabriel, our third place winner, as he made those all-important spending decisions for his prize, then Dallas would suddenly be flooded with the Knitting Friends of Gabriel. So, it's time to spread some more Knitting Daily love...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many of you have been writing in, anxiously asking when the results for the Knitting Daily Yarn Spree Giveaway would be announced. We said the winners would be notified in mid-January, and I believe that today, January 14th, is "mid" enough for me. So, we ran our little random number generator on the thousands and thousands of entries we received, and all this week, you will get a chance to meet the winners and get a peek at their favorite local yarn shop where they will be spending lots of time rolling in yarn and petting skeins trying to decide what to buy with their shiny-new gift certificates.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[You folks are extremely generous with both your time and your thoughtful replies. In particular, I'm tickled to death that a whopping 52% of the folks who filled out the survey (What do men want in a handknit sweater?) were non-knitting men. [...]]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I'm not the type to spontaneously attend a major league sports event. Heck, I don't even watch the little five-minute sports segment of the local news.But even I can be persuaded by the prospect of knitters in hockey jerseys cheering on the Colorado Avalanche; especially if those knitters are knitting-whilst-cheering, and the knitting is for charity.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you are knitting fearlessly for someone else, Knowing For Whom You Are Knitting Before You Casteth On takes on a whole new meaning:  Will the Other Person want to wear what you want to knit for them?This can be an especially tricky question if that Other Person you want to knit for is male.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[You make me speechless with joy sometimes. Thursday afternoon, after a long and weird day, I sat down to read your comments on Wednesday's New Year post, and...wow. Are you people amazing, or what? You are not just fearless...you are fabulous. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[At the end of one of last year's posts, I added one of my favorite sayings: "Be a fearless knitter." That one little sentence prompted many of you to write in about the ways in which Knitting Daily had given you the courage to try new things, to try scary things, or even just to rip the same old thing in order to try to make it better the second time around.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The reindeer made me do it...Merry Merry! -- Sandi]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I don't have any magic words to help you get all your holiday knitting done on time. (Sorry about that.) However, I do have a nifty little tip for those of you, who like me, completely and utterly despise the Kitchener Stitch.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have already received, and am already wearing, the best holiday present I can imagine: A pair of cabled socks knitted for me by my husband Nicholas. I'd like to point out that Sir Nicholas has only been knitting for a couple of years [...]]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[People have been wondering what Lisa and I had come up with as far as the promised CPH surprise, so here we go...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Originally, we were going to wait until Friday to post photos of Lisa Shroyer's finished Big Girl version of the Central Park Hoodie, but after all your requests, we just couldn't resist any longer...so: Voila! And yes, that is Lisa modelling her hoodie for us all. Toooo cute! But how to make sure your own hoodie, and every sweater you knit, is just as cute on you as Lisa's is on her?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[When Lisa Shroyer told me that she was knitting a Big Girl version of the Central Park Hoodie, I couldn't wait to see her Finished Object (known to bloggers as a "FO"). When I found out she was actually adding three new sizes to the original CPH pattern and she was willing to come chat about the process of upsizing the hoodie on Knitting Daily, I was truly delighted.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[There were quite a few questions regarding schematics and measuring, so I thought we&#146;d take a little stroll into Measurement Land today. We have a few more galleries to share with you, but I think the galleries will be more helpful if we are all speaking the same language.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The raglan lines of this sweater are complementary to any body type, as is the refined silhouette with waist shaping and a high-hip hem.  The tall collar frames the face in a flattering way.  I'd recommend choosing a size with positive ease (larger than your actual measurements) for a comfortable fit.  The all-over color work creates a thick but not stiff fabric and you'll want some room for movement in this sweater.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This colorwork beauty, designed by Interweave Knits editor Eunny Jang, modernizes a Fair Isle classic with its close fit. Using a modest six colors, this vest is a complete study in Fair Isle; the classic construction elements include steeks and two-color corrugated ribbing. View The Ivy League Gallery! When selecting a size, be sure to check all the measurements shown on the schematic [...]]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[We interrupt this broadcast of the Knitting Daily/Interweave Knits Winter 2007 Gallery Series to ask you this all-important question:What would you buy if someone gave you $300 to spend at your local yarn shop?This is not a theoretical question, my yarn-loving friends. This is For Real. Interweave Press is giving away gift certificates for a shopping spree at the yarn shop of your choice. Three of you lucky folks will win one of the following in a random drawing: first prize wins a $300 spree, second prize wins a $200 spree, and third prize wins a $100 spree.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here's the next in our popular series of sweater galleries from theWinter 2007 issue of Interweave Knits.  This time, Katie Himmelberg, assistant editor of Interweave Knits, gives suggestions for color choices and customizations for the Bonbon Pullover.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I asked Katie Himmelberg, style editor ofKnitscene and assistant editor of Interweave Knits, to provide some expert commentary for us for each of the sweaters we have chosen for the Winter 2007 Interweave Sweater Gals Gallery. Here's what Katie has to say about our first two sweaters.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I am back from Canada, and instead of being a respite from my work, the trip allowed me to re-connect with the joy behind what I do for a living. I am a  professional knitter; I am a professional writer-about-knitting; knitting permeates every moment of every day of my life. However, sometimes the daily hustle-bustle of getting the Knitting Daily posts out leaves little space in my life for experiencing the simple joys of being a knitter...and this trip, though short, was full of little special moments that brought back these joys to my knitterly heart.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today's Knitting Daily post was written by the next in our series of Guest Star Editors: Lisa Shroyer, senior editor of Interweave Knits and editor of Knitscene magazine.I've been with Interweave since 2005. My main job is the pattern manager/editor of Knits. I manage all the knitting patterns in the magazine, from tech editing to photoshoot to final published pattern. I fondle all the garments, count stitches, swatch, study charts, do lots of math on my grimy little well-loved calculator, check yarn info, chase down designers with questions like "did you use the eastern CO or the figure 8?" and so on.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today's Guest Star poster is Kim Werker, editor of Interweave Crochet magazine and the new book Crochet Me.When Sandi asked me to write a guest post on KD, I thought of all the conversations I've had with knitters over the years, and wanted to take this opportunity to share some of what has come out of those chats. I'd love to know what you think. Here's the gist:Close your eyes and picture a crocheted sweater.Let me guess. It's made from double crochet. It's dense. [...]]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today we proudly present the first in our series of posts by Guest Star Editors&#151;this one is from Amy Clarke Moore, editor of Spin-Off magazine.This is the time of year that I pull out the brown cardigan I&#146;ve been knitting for my Dad for since 1996. I work on it every year between November and February (the beginning of the holiday season until his birthday in February) with the hope that this will be the year that I finish it. In the ten years that I&#146;ve been working on it, my Dad has lost about 30 pounds&#151;so the sweater will be a little roomy. I&#146;m so fortunate that he is so understanding and patient.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thank you for the overwhelming (and very amusing!) responses to the Winter 2007 Project Poll: What project(s) are you excited to cast on for? I had so much fun reading the comments and seeing what you thought of the new Winter patterns!Without further ado, here are your top ten patterns from Winter Knits 2007, in order:]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[It never gets old. One morning every few months, I walk into my cubicle, and there it is, sitting on my desk chair: a brand-shiny new issue of Interweave Knits. This time, it was the Winter 2007 issue, and as usual, my email went unanswered and my other work came to a standstill until I had looked at Every. Single. Page.As with every time I go through a new issue, I am looking to fall in love. I want to turn the page, and fall hard, fall fast, fall passionately in love with The Sweater. THE Sweater. You know which one I mean: The Sweater that will look adorable on me, The Sweater that I will stay up into the wee hours to finish because I love knitting it so much, The Sweater that leaps off the page, takes me by the hand, leans in reeeeaaaallly close, and whispers in my ear: "Knit me. C'mon, you know you want to knit me..."]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Solving Common Knitting Problems: Losing The Ladders]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Thirteen years ago, I started the Lacey Arrow Socks from the book Socks. I gleefully ordered itty-bitty size 0 needles, and the finest of creamy, laceweight silk-merino yarn. When the yarn arrived, as I recall, I sat down and cast on for the first sock almost as soon as the package was opened.13 years later, I have a problem. In reviewing my UFO collection, I found the partial sock tucked away in a box. I put it on, and discovered just how much my knitting skills have improved in the intervening years.The lacey half-sock, though lovely, has noticeable "ladders" at the places where one needle met another. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[There were so many good questions and comments from The Frog Pond post on straightening curly yarn, that I decided to answer a few of them here.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[After a project has visited The Frog Pond, one is often left contemplating a ball of rather curly yarn. The question is: How do you bring the yarn back to life, sans curl, so you can re-use the yarn in a fabulous new project? To answer this, it is useful to think about how the curl gets there in the first place.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I was very amused by your suggestions of cross-stitch pictures and tee-shirts with "The Swatch is Good. The Swatch is Wise. Listen to the Swatch." emblazoned across them. Personally, I think I need this message engraved on the inside of my eyeglasses so I cannot possibly forget it...If a particular piece of knitting spends too much time off in UFO Land, then perhaps it is time to re-evaluate one's commitment to that particular long-distance relationship. Painful though it may be, sometimes it is time to ask the Final Questions: "Am I really going to finish this? Do I really WANT to finish this?"]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thank you for the hilarious comments, and all the helpful suggestions, that were in the comments on Wednesday's post about the fate of the Bonsai Tunic. I did not realize that the resolution of a problematic UFO would be considered a "cliffhanger," but I should have realized that rescuing a sweater from the frog pile is one of every knitter's most...uh...breath-taking...adventures.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[When I first seamed up and tried on the Bonsai Tunic, it was clear that something had gone Horribly Awry. It was huge on me. The photos I took made it look like a very pretty green lace tent. And it wasn't just that it was too big...unlike the original sample garment (which I had in the office), my tunic just fell from my shoulders and hung there, shapeless and stretchy.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Now that we know that there are over 69,000 UnFinished Knitting Objects amongst our collective knitting baskets (it used to be 65,000, but I updated that result with the numbers that came in this weekend!), let's look at the results of the second survey to see why all those UFOs became UFOs in the first place:]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Results are still coming in, but as of this morning, those of us who answered the Knitting Daily UnFinished Objects Poll have a combined total of about 65,000 UFOs. That's a lot of unfinished knitting sitting around in workbaskets and closets and ziplock bags; it works out to an average of about 7 UFOs per knitter-who-answered.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nicholas, A.K.A. The Husband, is three-quarters of the way through knitting me a pair of cabled socks. He's done the first sock, and is partway through the second. One weekend, I caught him looking through my knitting books...and he confessed: "I don't understand it. I'm not done with your socks, and really, no matter what I do, I just can't seem to finish them. On top of that, all I want to do is to start a new project, even before the socks are done! How stupid is that?"]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:09:53 MDT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Knitters, take courage. Open up your plastic storage bins, throw the closet doors wide open, pull out all those knitting bags, and let's see how much knitting we all REALLY have "on the needles": Take the Knitting Daily UnFinished Objects Poll.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Swatch is not just an annoying little politeness ritual, taught by the Ms. Manners of Knitting. It is literally a sample of your finished knitting, akin to the fabric samples you see in furniture stores. Ever bought a sofa using one of those samples, only to feel a bit shocked at how the floral pattern looked once it was spread halfway across your living room? Yeah. We can all live without that kind of shock therapy in our knitting, thank you very much&#151;and that's where a good swatch comes in. If done correctly, a bit of knitting in a properly-sized square can tell you a lot of things about what is going to happen when you cast on those 432 stitches for your husband's raglan pullover!  But the information you can glean from The Swatch is only as good as The Swatch itself.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many of you have mentioned your frustrations in trying to incorporate stitch patterns into your knitting, only to run up against the issue of gauge. If you are "painting" with stitches against a stockinette stitch "canvas," for example, adding a few eyelets can also add to the size of your finished piece; inserting a cable can draw in your fabric more than you might imagine. So once again, gauge rears its difficult, persnickety little head, and demands that we pay attention to it, when all we really want to do is blissfully knit away in peace. (How rude!)]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[By Bruce Hallmark, Guest EditorI&#146;m not Sandi Wiseheart.  I&#146;m not even close.  She knows more about knitting (and &#147;dare I say crochet&#148;) than most people I know.  And that&#146;s a pretty high standard considering I&#146;ve had the privilege of hanging around Interweave Press for a combined total of seven years (1994-95 and 2002-present). ... Around Interweave, if you&#146;re not a knitter, or a spinner, or a beader, or a needle artist you can feel like you&#146;re walking around in the land of giants. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Look at the work of any of the top knitwear designers, from Shirley Paden and Mari Lynn Patrick to Mona Schmidt and Evelyn Clark, and one thing soon becomes clear: These folks really know how to use a stitch dictionary. Yes, they know how to design graceful silhouettes or socks that sing, but they can do things with a book of stitch patterns that would frighten fish (as the characters in Steel Magnolias might say).]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I am a stitch geek. I'm fascinated by the different ways that the humble knit stitch and the unassuming purl stitch get together and make a gadzillion different glorious combinations. My stitch dictionaries are stained with the love born of long and constant use; they tend to be found strewn around my living room, adorned with dozens of colorful stickies, rather than neatly lined up on my bookshelf. They are the first books I turn to when designing a new piece of knitting; they are the last book I consult as I proofread my instructions, checking symbol keys and pattern repeats to make sure everything is exactly right.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Knitted stitches have a lovely drape, which is one reason we love them so! That drape is created by having lots of small holes between the yarn fibers--in general, the bigger the holes, the more drape something has. Think of the difference in drape between a felted piece of knitting, where the holes between stitches have been compressed together, and a traditional lace shawl, where the holes are the whole point of the knitting!Those lovely holes can cause problems when what you are knitting is a bag meant to hold stuff, however. How do you keep your keys (or your knitting needles!) from poking out through the sides of your hand-knitted bag?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Not every knitter has a sewing machine, and not everyone enjoys extended bouts of hand-sewing. What if I told you there were ways to line your knitted bags without a sewing machine, and without a lot of hand-stitching? Here are some alternative ways to line your knitted bags.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I'm beginning to think that I have a Serious Knitting Bag Habit, as I am getting dangerously close to having a different knitting bag for each UnFinished Object. This would not be a "Serious Knitting Bag Habit" if I only had one UFO, or perhaps even a grand total of three, each with its own respective knitting bag. No. That would be reasonable, and perhaps even sensible. However, my UFO list is in the double digits.Now you see my problem.Thus, I am continually in search of the Best Knitting Bag Ever. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thank you for all your passion, for your devotion to these yarnly crafts that we all love so well, as reflected in the comments to Wednesday's post. I take as a high compliment the comments that said, "Please leave our Knitting Daily as it is!"; I also was thrilled to hear from multi-craftual folks who were happy to hear "the C-word" now and then, as way of enriching their craft vocabulary as well as their knitting.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[There, I said it: Crochet. We're an online community called Knitting Daily, and I've gone and said the word "crochet," right up front for all the world to see. From the beginning, crochet has been part of Knitting Daily's mission, but I haven't yet devoted a post to it. We've covered other yarn-y delights, such as knitting socks, knitting lace, and tossing your knitting into the washing machine to felt it. Why shouldn't we also discuss that other lovely way to play with yarn--crochet?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Since I was not a cable knitter, I used the designing process for the Connections Scarf as a way of getting to know the whole process of knitting cables: how they worked, how they fit together, how to incorporate them into a pattern. I learned a few tricks along the way, so I thought I would share those with you.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Knitting For Family: The Red Scarf Project]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Red Scarf Project, endorsed by Interweave, Lily Chin, and The National NeedleArts Association, was started in 2005 by the Orphan Foundation of America as a way of showing community support and encouragement to college-bound teens in foster care. This year, I was asked if I would like to design a Red Scarf pattern for Interweave to sponsor during the 2007 campaign, and of course, I said yes.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I asked Mags: How does she choose the colors for a project like the Modern Quilt Wrap? I was hoping for the magic-secret formula that would turn me into a color genius. Her answer: Listen to the language of color you already speak.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I love my job. I get to hang out online with all you lovely knitters, I get to sit here and write about knitting, I get to fondle the glorious original of the Modern Quilt Wrap (which is currently draped across my desk, at least until I have to give it back to the book people), and I get to talk on the phone with Mags Kandis.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Yarn substitution. The very words strike fear and trembling into the hearts of knitters everywhere. The published photo is so beautiful, the yarn the designer used so utterly perfect in every way...but alas, the specified yarn is wool, and you're allergic to wool. Or the yarn called for would put too large a dent in your grocery money. Or you live in Australia, and the yarn is unavailable there. What to do? How can you find a substitute yarn that is perfect for you AND perfect for the pattern you've fallen in love with?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's true: I hate to knit scarves. I don't know why. I just do. I am thrilled to have other people knit scarves, and in snowy January, I love snuggling up in a sweet little neck-wrap just as much as the next person. However, while I understand intellectually that knitting a scarf is the same as knitting a sweater sans shaping, I remain stalwart in my dislike of Knitting Scarves. Thus I find it particularly ironic that two weeks ago, I had my heart stolen by a knitted scarf pattern. I was flipping through a copy of Mag Kandis' new book Folk Style...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Our final gallery this week features the Origami Cardigan by Norah Gaughan.   True to its name, this cardigan has a very unusual construction--simple and elegant, with a bit of "Wow, how did she think of that?" thrown in.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Imagine it's 3 PM on a workday. Lunch is a distant memory, going home early isn't an option, and the Snickers bars in the vending machine are starting to look like health food (Nuts and chocolate, right? I see antioxidants and protein! Whoo!). Then, out of nowhere, someone pops her head around your cubicle wall and says brightly, "Hey! Can I take your photo and your bust measurements and post them all over the Internet for everyone to see?"Yeah, baby. Just another day in the life of an Interweave staff person.  No one has coffee breaks like we do.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The 1824 Blouson by Mari Lynn Patrick, from the Summer 2007 issue of Interweave Knits, was one of your top picks for a Knitting Daily Sweater Gallery, so five of us Interweavers, plus the ever-obliging Bertha, modeled the sample garment for you: The 1824 Blouson Gallery.Our findings: We all loved wearing this sweater. It was comfortable, the lovely dressmaker details made it just a bit special, and the cotton yarn had just a bit of give--but not so much give that we worried about the sweater "growing" on us!One question I've heard asked a lot about the Blouson is: What size should I make?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[You people are amazing. In your comments on Wednesday's post you spoke, more eloquently than I ever could, of the reasons we knit in the first place; the reasons we keep knitting; the reasons we start knitting after long absences from the needles; and the reasons why, once you are a knitter, your needles transform your life in ways both subtle and profound.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Monday, when I wrote about the joys of handmade toys, I had no intention of actually knitting one of the little cuddlies whose pattern I was offering to all of you. I thought, what a cute pattern...but I have Serious Knitting Projects to work on, so no chance of me casting on for one of these guys. No way. I have sweaters to knit, and a scarf for orphans, and socks for a friend. I did not need another project on my needles. And I certainly did not need another stuffed animal in my life, as my bedroom shelves are filled with the little beasties.But here it is Wednesday. and here I am putting the finishing touches on...a knitted cat.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[As many of you have noted, the pattern photo for Robin Melanson's Corset Pullover shows the sweater on a very willowy young woman. There were several of you who pointed out that this was a rather ironic choice, given our discussions on adapting patterns for all shapes and sizes.Here is where I confess to a certain degree of deviousness--and perhaps even to having an ulterior motive or three. Several people have assured me that the Corset Pullover is really cute, and that it would be great on Knitting Daily--but based on the photo alone, I wasn't convinced. The funny thing is that ordinarily, I love everything that comes off of Robin's clever little needles...so I decided both you and I needed to see this sweater in person--and that it would be a perfect example for our discussions on sizing and customization.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I hardly know what to say in response to your extremely generous and intelligent replies to Wednesday's post....except THANK YOU. Thank you for taking time out of your busy lives to tell us your dreams, hopes, frustrations, and wishes for sizing in knitting patterns. All of us here at Interweave appreciate your thoughtful responses, and your willingness to tell us about your needs, more than we can say.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Your comments on Monday's post--particularly your questions for Eunny about pattern sizing in Knits--have sparked some lively debates amongst all of us editorial types here at Interweave. In email and in the hallways, Eunny Jang, Kim Werker, Lisa Shroyer, Katie Himmelberg, Laura Rintala, and myself have been going around and around on the issues you brought up--and I gotta say: Folks, we're all downright puzzled.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[What if one day, someone called you on the phone, and asked you to be the new editor of Interweave Knits magazine? That's exactly what happened to popular blogger and oh-so-talented knitting designer, Eunny Jang. Talk about getting your dream job!I'd had the pleasure of interviewing Eunny several months ago, right after she was hired--in fact, that interview was part of one of the very first Knitting Daily newsletters. I thought it was time to check back in with Eunny again, especially now that her very first issue as editor, Fall 2007 Knits, is about to hit the store shelves. I wanted to know what it was like to literally be Alice in Knitting Wonderland...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[When I first came to work at Interweave, I found out that my officemate was to be none other than the one and only Ann Budd, author of one of my most well-loved knitting books: The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns.I was petrified. They might as well have put me in the same office with Maya Angelou, or Barbara Kingsolver.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The subject of socks came up during our blocking tutorial, when dozens of you asked how to block your socks. I started typing out answers for you, and then realized that it would be much more fun to hear from Interweave's very own sock lover, and author of Getting Started Knitting Socks, Ann Budd.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, we began our Adventure in Blocking with a review of the basic tools and preparations you need to make before you get started. Now that you have everything gathered together, and now that you have experimented with blocking your swatch (and of course, you would never, ever skip the swatching step, right? Of course not.), we can forge ahead with the actual blocking! We ended with Step 4 last time, so next is Step 5.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Since I finished the back of the Bonsai Tunic last weekend, I figured the best way to start talking about blocking was to do a bit of show-and-tell, starring my new best friend: the blocking board! The board was a birthday treat for myself, and now that I've had a chance to drive it around a bit, I'm wondering what I ever did without it.The instructions here will work for most garments and other knitted items. Lace shawls and certain other pieces require a bit of special red-carpet treatment, which we'll talk about later.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Last Friday, I innocently asked what was on your needles...and oh my goodness. Do you people ever SLEEP? What's your secret for getting housework done? Do you do laundry online? The sheer number of projects y'all are working on was stunning.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I absolutely LOVED reading all the different clever solutions you folks have come up with to use as blocking surfaces ... amazing. We'll have more on blocking next week...but it's Friday, and thus time for a little Knitting Daily treat.Fresh from the archives of PieceWork magazine, I am proud to present: the Icelandic Lace Shawl.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[After years of blocking my knitting and crocheting on kitchen counters, floors, and dryer tops, I finally broke down this weekend and ordered an Official Blocking Board (from Webs--thanks, Kathy and Steve!). I'd been telling myself for years that I didn't need anything fancier--that is, until I started dealing with a serious lace habit. One day, I tried blocking my Flower Basket Shawl on a makeshift foam board that I thought was waterproof...but guess what. It wasn't. The board warped as the shawl dried, and the shawl warped along with it. I ended up having to re-block the shawl all over again. (Not fun, especially when I was anxious to wear it and show it off!)]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best part of writing a post is getting to answer back someone who leaves a really great comment: Eirwen in Wales, I am so sorry that visions of the gorgeous Icelandic Shawl have distracted you from your previously-scheduled vacation knitting (of a gorgeous silk lace-and-cables sweater, no less). Be strong. The shawl pattern will be waiting for you upon your return. (Unless, of course, you want to fly me to Crete? I could bring the printout straight to the beach, perhaps.) Update on the Icelandic Shawl pattern: We discovered a correction to the original chart, so the whole thing has gone off to the tech editor for a thorough check-up, and we will post the PDF as soon as it is ready. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Hot Tomato, An Icelandic Shawl, And A Charming Tip]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is Friday the 13th, a traditional "bad luck day" in the U.S.--but I am throwing caution to the winds and wearing my fresh-off-the-needles Hot Tomato. I realize that in doing so, I am making myself a target for coffee- accidents, spaghetti spills, and other natural disasters which might be attracted to my new bright-orange sweater. I scoff, nay: I laugh in the face of stains and dribbles, because folks, even if I do say so myself, this top is HOT. (I am no fool, however. I drank my coffee before I got dressed, and I am on a strict water-and-colorless-food diet until I get home from work tonight.) It's not blocked yet, because I finished it literally fifteen minutes before leaving the house. So the photo here is just a sneak preview.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[So, my lace-loving friends: I made a list of the more than 30 questions you asked in the comments from Monday's post. About a quarter of those were promptly addressed by your fellow commenters...which is a Very Good Thing, seeing as it would take me WEEKS of posts to answer all those questions myself! And whilst some of you might be in Lace Knitting Heaven during those weeks, I know that some of you want me to get back to the bust darts, and others of you want to chat about cables, or sock toes, or intarsia. So: I'll answer as many of the questions as I can this week, and then we'll have another Lace Week every now and then to talk about the rest!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Increases and decreases: That's really all lace knitting is--really! Yarnovers (increases) form the holes in knitting, decreases form the ridges and wavy lines that give shape to the holes. If you can do a yarnover and a k2tog, you can do lace...it really is that simple. But to a beginning knitter, or to someone who can't tell knitting from macrame, lace knitting is mysterious, exotic, the stuff of fairy tales. Well, OK...the truth is that lace knitting entrances even expert knitters, because, even when you know how it works, it's still just plain magical. Knit a bit of lace, and no matter how hard it really was, you still feel like you've created a bit of knitted sleight-of-hand.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Something magical happened this week. A bit like the Velveteen Rabbit becoming real, Knitting Daily started to become a real community over the past several days. You commenters were having a rollicking good time, the blog tour was a blast, and then, just when I thought things couldn't get any better, Kristin-of-the-great-emails comes to the office to introduce herself in person and show me her knitting. (We had so much fun chatting that I forgot to take a photo.) Suddenly, the dream of Interweave's online Knitting Town was becoming a reality, thanks to all of you fabulous knitters. Here's a few more highlights, plus some Q&amp;A from the comments...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Where The Darts Go]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The original Tomato is essentially a darling little knitted T-shirt. Wendy Bernard designed it to be dartless, slighty huggy, and comfy, as all the best T-shirts traditionally are. But if you need darts, and you don't want to do short-row darts, then where how do you know where to place your darts? ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[In Which the Commenters Chant: Bust Darts, Bust Darts, Bust Darts!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I should have known you'd want to know about the bust darts. Your comments on last Friday's blog entry were a HOOT and I just about giggled myself to pieces reading them all. By the time I got to Susan's comment ("*chanting* BUST, DARTS, BUST, DARTS, BUST, DARTS!!") and Melissa's enthusiastic "All chesty women will rise up and call you blessed!", it was clear that a bust dart tutorial was in order.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[My Surreal Knitting Life And That Stripe]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I&#146;m having a bit of a surreal life at the moment. I mean, I know I work for Interweave, and thus I&#146;m supposed to be all nonchalant and cool about things like Norah Gaughan leaving a comment on my blog&#133;.but I&#146;m so not cool when it comes to my knitting idols. Norah Gaughan left a comment on my blog. I was so un-cool when I saw her comment that my poor husband had to listen to me squeal with glee for a full twenty minutes. I emailed my friends at work and told them I could die a happy knitter now.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Have you read the comments from Monday&#146;s post? Oh my goodness&#133;There is practically an entire textbook full of tips in there about how to do Fair Isle successfully. You people are awesome! I had a completely different post ready-to-go for today, but I re-wrote things a bit at the last minute to include some of the hints you shared.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[About That Stripe: Knitting A Fairer Fair Isle]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Maybe some of you are Fair Isle Wizards, but I am not. In fact, I'm kind of a Fair Isle Chicken. Give me lace knitting, and I purr and behave myself in public (well, mostly&#133;). But Fair Isle--Fair Isle and I have a History. Fair Isle and I have had Words, unseemly and unknitterly words. Hence, I usually avoid Fair Isle with mumbled excuses and protestations of having too much lace to knit.I bring this up, because in knitting the Tomato, I realize that I am facing twelve entire rounds of Fair Isle knitting, in look-at-me-I&#146;m-a-STRIPE bright teal and orange, right up front where everyone can see it. (We&#146;ll talk about that &#147;right-up-front&#148; issue at the end of the post.) I could knit the Tomato without That Stripe, in a solid color, but given that I&#146;m so out of my comfort zone with the whole orange thing anyway, why not just have a total attitude party and face my Fair Isle fears? Why not, indeed. It&#146;s only yarn, and I am, after all, a knitter. I can do this. Right? Right.But no way am I doing this alone. I need help. Time to call on some knitting superheroes. Time to call on The Knitscene Team.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[On The Third Day, I Ripped]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Let me be clear: It&#146;s not Amy&#146;s fault I ended up having to rip out two days&#146; worth of knitting on the Tomato. It&#146;s also not Wendy&#146;s fault. It&#146;s entirely my fault, because even though I followed Amy&#146;s brilliant No Sheep For You teaching and Did The Geeky Thing, I completely forgot that I was knitting for my real self and not for my imaginary self.I am a big girl. That&#146;s a fact. However, and this is the interesting part: I am not as big as I think I am. I suspect this is true of many of us gals. [...]]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Before Knitting Daily went live, I sent out a survey to all you charter members asking you what you wanted to knit. A rousing 37% of the 4,120 folks who replied said you wanted to knit a short-sleeved top.Drum roll, please: In honor of Knitting Daily going live, and of this being our first week of official newsletters, I have a little gift for you: Fresh from Amy Singer&#146;s book No Sheep For You, I am pleased to present the Tomato, designed by Wendy Bernard. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hi, Knitters! Welcome to the new home of Knitting Daily! Come on in and take a look around.We&#146;ve only just begun&#133;&#133; And there&#146;s lots of room to grow in the months ahead. Like any new home, the site might have that &#147;new paint smell&#148; for a while, and the furniture might not be in quite the right places just at first. Because this is YOUR knitting place at Interweave, we hope you will become a part of helping us get it exactly right in the months ahead. [...]]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[More than 300 of you wrote in to say why you thought the Comfy Socks were a bit lonely. The two factors mentioned most often were the bulky yarn/large gauge used in the pattern, and --surprisingly--the photograph.The bulky yarn part made sense--most of you felt that these socks wouldn't fit inside your shoes...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Wow! The sock survey was a big hit! More than 4,200 of you have filled it out so far--thank you! You can still fill it out if you didn't get a chance to last week, and we'll post a complete results page later this month. But here are some preliminary results for you...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I'm noticing that the sock patterns on Knitting Daily are wildly popular--well, some of them, anyway. Judging from the download numbers, you loved the Caspian Sea Socks (at left) and the Diagonal Rib Socks, but the Comfy Socks are feeling teensy bit neglected.This makes me curious to know: What kind of sock patterns do you want? ...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I never expected the type of response I got back after sending out the newsletter about Major Laura. Hundreds of emails, emails such as I have never in my life received. Your gratitude towards those who serve, the generosity of your knitters&#146; hearts, the touching stories about heroes in your own lives&#133;my friends, you are simply amazing.It took me days to read all the emails, mostly because I had to take breaks to compose myself ...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the United States, where I live, this next Monday is Memorial Day, when we pause to remember those who have given their lives in service to their country. I know that over a fifth of Knitting Daily members are not in the U.S. and thus do not share the American calendar; however, each and every one of us, worldwide, has a life touched by war in some way--whether we know it or not.Allow me to introduce you to Laura, a major in the U.S. Army, stationed in Iraq. Laura and I have something in common: We are knitters. But as I sit in my safe, comfortable cubicle here in Colorado, Laura is stationed in Iraq, where the words "safe and comfortable" do not apply...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[When I asked you to send in stories about your biggest knitting mistakes, what I expected were tales of cables mis-placed, lace gone horribly wrong, and feltings that produced beautiful miniature sweaters instead of anything that would actually fit a human being. What I got were tales of wisdom, with a unique knitterly take on the place of mistakes in our lives.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of you wrote in to tell me about your knitting disasters after last week&#146;s post about my &#147;big&#148; mistake in the Vine Lace Baby Hat. As I read through all the stories (and I did read every single one), I learned several important things...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have an industry secret to reveal: Knitting editors are human. (Not aliens from The Planet Of Perfect Knitting! Imagine that.) We make mistakes while knitting just like anyone else. The difference is that sometimes our knitting mistakes end up in a high-resolution photograph, published for all the world to see...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lately, we've had a lot of pregnancies amongst the Interweavers, so there has been a frenzy of people knitting and crocheting wee cute things at meetings and in the lunchroom.My own Wee Cute Knitting consisted of baby hats. I started with a pink hat sized for a preemie, just to get the pattern worked out...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Someone asked me the other day: "So, Sandi, what are you knitting for your mom for Mother's Day?" A bit of guilty silence ensued. The embarrassing truth is, I've spent hours and hours knitting for babies, for cancer survivors, for friends, for my husband...but my own mother has not had a hand-knit gift from me in years. So perhaps instead of the stories I was going to tell you about other people's moms and their knitting, it would be more fitting to talk about the mom I know best: my own.Knitters, meet Martha, my mom. Mom, meet all the knitters. [...]]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Faroese Shawls&#133;the very name sounds exotic, bringing to mind images of delicate, spidery lace worn by fancy society ladies. The truth is that real Faroese Shawls are anything but fancy. Originally designed by hard-working women of the Faroese Isles about a hundred years ago, these shawls were devised to be a working woman&#146;s garment...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[My inbox is full of photos of the cute Squatty Sidekicks you are all making.The awesome Orange Squatty is from Kelly in California. Can you believe this is her very first non-flat, non-rectangular knitted object? [...]]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[My husband Nicholas is the perfect knitter&#146;s husband: adorable, patient, and tolerates both long afternoons spent in yarn shops and large piles of yarn in the linen closet with equal parts humor and grace. However, he was mystified by the entire concept of me knitting a bag to carry things in.&#147;Why would anyone want to knit a bag?...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Four years ago, my sister gave me a mesh tote bag she had made for me for my birthday. The bag is purple (yay!), made out of sturdy acrylic yarn, expands to hold several wet beach towels or a day&#146;s worth of groceries, and folds up to fit in my pocket.This tote bag is one of the best gifts I&#146;ve ever gotten. Every time I use it, I think of my sister Liz and imagine her making it for me...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This is the story of how a pretty little felted bag made its way from a blog to a photo in Interweave Felt magazine, and then to you!Once upon a time, a knitter named Amanda made an adorable felted bag and put photos of it on her blog. She called it the Squatty Sidekick, because it ended up going everywhere with her, and was small enough to keep her from overpacking! As happens often in knitting blogdom, other knitters started asking for the pattern for the Squatty...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I admire knitted, felted goodies&#133;mostly from afar. I love to examine them, and stroke them, but as much as I love all these beautiful creations, I have been dubious about the idea of making felted objects for myself.For example: Everyone seems to love felted handbags, and I have seen some really pretty ones. However, I&#146;m pretty hard on my tote bags and purses; I&#146;ve been known to wear through a really good leather bag in a couple of seasons. I think I am a bit leery of putting that much work into something that I know would have a very hard life in my possession...The other reality of my life is that I have cats, cats who love curling up on mom&#146;s hand-made items. One always has to look at potential projects from the cats&#146; point of view: would it make a good cat bed? If the answer is yes, then one carefully weighs the possibilities for keeping the item out of the cats&#146; reach along with the cost of yarn and other considerations before deciding what to make and what not to make. A lovely felted intarsia bag would make a fine cat bed, and thus a poor Sandi project.Still, I love to look, and to touch, and to see all the ingenious ways that folks come up with to make fabric into something that is as useful as it is beautiful. And I admit that I am sorely tempted to make Amanda&#146;s Squatty Sidekick purse, simply because it is very practical, and pretty&#151;and yet not so intricate that if I found a cat sleeping in it my heart would be broken.Besides: The thought of tossing my knitting into the washing machine is strangely seductive. I am normally so careful NOT to put my knitting into the washer. And wouldn&#146;t it be fun to carry around something I had knitted all day long?Perhaps I could knit the pieces for Amanda&#146;s bag, and then knit an extra square of cat-sized proportions, so that the cats would have their bed, and I would have my bag.Oh, wait. They are cats. Everything I have is theirs.I think I will still make the bag. I can put my knitting in it and keep it at work to take to knitting-friendly meetings, thereby avoiding the danger of it becoming a cat bed.I am off to find some lovely felt-able wool.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Of Knitted Felted Bags (And A Pair Of Red Boots)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I&#146;m lucky enough that I get to see the originals of the lovely felted bags published in our Interweave publications: Nicky Epstein&#146;s Floral Felted Bag is a knockout &#147;in person," Leigh Radford&#146;s gorgeous embellished backpack was a delight to examine up close.My personal favorite is Marta McCall&#146;s Weekend Getaway Satchel, perhaps because I was the first one to unpack the swatch she sent us as the submission for that bag. I still remember gasping as I unwrapped that huge, colorful, beautifully made square of felted intarsia. It was stunning, and I knew right away that it was something special...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hi, I&#146;m Sandi, and I have scarf-a-phobia. Don&#146;t get me wrong: I like to wear scarves. I just don&#146;t like to knit them. I don&#146;t know why, because knitting is knitting, right&#151;you get to play with lovely needles and to touch lovely yarn, and it&#146;s all good, right? Well, somehow, scarf-knitting for me isn&#146;t as fun as other knitting...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many of you wrote and asked for a photo of the beautiful crocheted shrug that Kerry lent me to cover the Wardrobe Malfunction, so here is my friend Danielle modelling it for us...It&#146;s got a pineapple motif at the sides, back, and cuffs; the rest is a V-stitch mesh. It&#146;s a lightweight cotton/poly blend, done at a pretty fine gauge. Very nice.Do I have the pattern for it? Nope. Can I tell you where to buy it? Nope. I will tell you that I did a pretty extensive internet search to try to find one just like it for myself and I utterly failed...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Shrug of Your Own: The Basic Recipe]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[So you have a cute little sundress, say, and you&#146;re planning on wearing it out to dinner next week, but it gets chilly in the evening. You don&#146;t want to completely cover up the neckline, because that&#146;s one of the best parts of the dress, but you also don&#146;t want to turn blue with cold before the dessert course. You&#146;ve looked through all the free shrug patterns here, and nothing quite appeals to you. You do, however, have the perfect yarn: a lovely silk/cotton blend that exactly matches the shade of blue in your dress.The catch: you are not a knitting design genius, and you don&#146;t want to spend hours with calculator and graph paper because, well, because you have one of those Life things...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[It took a wardrobe malfunction for me to fully appreciate the power, the beauty, and the sheer usefulness of the humble garment called a shrug.Prior to the unfortunate malfunction, I had scorned shrugs as being something devised by an evil waif queen to make the rest of us mortals look silly in our efforts to be stylin&#146;. I never felt the urge to knit or crochet a shrug, not even once&#151;not until my clothing chose the ten minutes prior to a meeting with my publisher to misbehave...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[We are all thrilled to have Eunny Jang on board as the new Interweave Knits editor. I spoke with her on the phone yesterday and got a few Knitting Daily exclusives:Knitting Daily: How did you feel when you were offered the job--every knitter's dream job?Eunny Jang: I felt...shocked, and then thrilled, and then I was itching to start and get my teeth into everything...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Knitting Daily is now 10,000 strong!Meet Lynn G., of Wilmette, IL, our 10,000th member, who has this to say about herself:I have been knitting since I was a teenager. I have a husband (we'll celebrate our 30th anniversary this summer) and two sons. Knitting has really become a major part of my life in recent years...]]></description>
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