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Audrey

With spring in the air I’ve been busily sewing the seeds for Jane Thornley’s Feather N Fan Organic Wrap.  I’ve been “growing” this wrap for a couple of days, I’m in the “Growth Cycle” and about 20″ away from “Harvesting” my work, Jane’s wonderful terms for increasing and decreasing!  This pattern is well written and Jane provides color photos and detailed explanations for every step from selecting the yarns, color schemes, yarn placement to working the stitches. 

I’ve been eyeing Jane’s patterns for over a year now and I’ve taken the plunge with this one, I’m glad I did.  I was already familiar with the Feather N Fan lace design, its a very easy introduction to lace knitting, simple repeats that look wonderfully complicated when finished. 

But selecting the yarns was the most fun!  I decided to go for a chocolate and fudge ice cream look and used one ball of each:

Karabella Breeze (40% Cashmere, 60% Silk, 202 yards, 22 sts = 10cm, color 30 Lt Brown) for my main yarn
Lorna’s Laces Grace (Mohair, Wool, 120 yards, 4 sts = 1″, color Camouflage)   
Berroco Bonsai (97% Bamboo, 3% Nylon, 77 yards, 5 sts = 1″, color 4121 Brown)
Wendy Peter Pan Velvet Touch (100% Nylon, 105 meters, 19 sts = 10cm, color 2007 Midnight Black)
Karabella Gossamer ( 30% Kid Mohair, 52% Nylon, 18% Polyester, 222 yards, 20 sts = 10cm, color 6800 Black With Black)
Berroco Suede (100% Nylon, 120 yards, 4.75 sts = 1″, color 3716 Maverick)
Cherry Tree Hill Baby Sachet (100% Nylon, 355 yards, color Java)
Karabella Supercashmere (100% Cashmere, 81 Yards, color 1360 Lt Tan)

Jane recommends using 7 different yarns, but I threw in an eighth because the Supercashmere was just the right color to set off the dark and light variations of brown in the Baby Sachet.  I also learned very quickly that gauge is not important with this pattern but that color scheme and yarn texture are key.  The thinner yarns, Bonsai and Suede, I knit alone but I also combined them as carry alongs.  The effect has been very pleasing and I’ve taken it to two Sit N Knits already and have gotten many complements even though I’m not finished!

The pattern includes directions for the Wrap and also the Capelet and Ruffled Skinny Scarf versions.  I can’t wait till its finished!

I’m working on putting together some Kits for the Wrap version, if you’re interested in a particular color scheme please email.

Here’s an idea I’m working on in Whites with Ice Blues & Silver accents.

Shawls are one of Jacquelyn Landry’s favorite things to knit for other people, this is her story…”and though I have never mastered the art of draping a shawl for full fashion appeal, I am an avid shawl-lover. There is one in my car that I keep around for whenever a restaurant or office building is too chilly. Whenever I have a doctor’s appointment or have an occasion to sit in a hospital waiting room there is one tucked in my bag. On occasion a good shawl has been known to double as a blanket for one of my girls on an especially chilly day or a long car trip. There is always an occasion to use one which is why I think they make a perfect keepsake for someone you care for. What I really adore are shawls that invite you to wrap yourself up in them whether you are sitting on the front porch reading or snuggling up on the couch in the middle of winter.”

Jacquelyn’s Himalaya is a very special triangular shawl meant for that kind of snuggling. The entrelac design is the perfect canvas for showcasing the dramatic colors of your favorite yarn while the warmth and softness makes it a perfect wrap and an heirloom quality addition to anyone’s collection. Model shown is the oversize version that can easily double as a throw. This Pattern also includes a traditional fingertip length.

SKILL LEVEL: Appropriate for a beginning-intermediate knitter. The pattern requires a basic knowledge of picking up stitches, decreasing, binding off, and some basic crochet.

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS: 95″ wide at top after edging for the oversize model shown. Pattern includes instructions to make shawl any size from small shoulder cape to fingertip length shawl.

MATERIALS: Shokay Shambala [100 % pure yak down; 164 yards per 100g hank] Model shown used 2 hanks each of Earth, Azure, and Himalayan Sunset in addition to 1 hank each of Alpine, Regal, Dusk, Meadow, Orchid, Cranberry, and Nocturne. US 8 (5mm) 32″ circular needle, 1 Size H-8 crochet hook

GAUGE: 16sts/24rows = 4″ in Stockinette stitch

SUBSTITUTING YARNS: This pattern includes a table with the approximate yardage requirements based on the yardage required to complete a single rectangle or base triangle in worsted weight yarn. You can use this information to choose a custom size or to incorporate a unique color sequence.

Ravelry…are you on it yet?  It has become my life when I’m on the computer and not.  During my last Sit N Knit three of us put down our knitting to show each other our favorite groups and projects! 

Do you watch the Radar?  Do you click on interesting posts and look at the groups?  If you don’t, don’t start! 

Thus far I’ve met Independent Knitwear Designers who have since joined my site, found new yarns I want, new projects I want to knit and met some interesting people worldwide who not only like to knit but also garden, bird watch and watch Project Runway!

If you’re on it please drop me a line and join my group, Sandrasingh.com, I’d love to hear about what’s on your needles. 

Warm your toes with Berroco’s first pattern booklet dedicated to socks!  #275 Feet First will rock your sock world with 8 sock and feet related patterns to knit in their 2 new sock yarns Sox and Comfort Sock.  Patterns include traditional socks, kilt stockings, leg warmers and tabby socks. 

Last night my DH & I and some fellow Austin Knitters all ventured out into the rain to The Off Center playhouse see Kristina Wong’s funny and thought provoking performance, Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.  Kristina uses knitting to dramatize the high rates of suicide and mental illness of woman within the Asian culture, thus our interest in the show.  If you get a chance to see her perform I recommend this one woman show.

Kristina in her nest of knitting before the show began.

Rather than reinvent the wheel here’s a write up about Wong’s show from the Creative Capital Channel website.

“I’m not crazy. Nor is anyone in my family,” Kristina Wong wants you to know. Except, of course, for her aunt, who passed away recently from untreated mental illness, and whose hush-hush life inspired Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, her serio-comic, partly autobiographical, multimedia solo performance work funded by Creative Capital.

Mental illness is often painful for its seeming randomness, its lack of clear causality or obvious cure. In Asian American communities, where the pressure to keep up appearances is particularly strong, this pain can be compounded by how-could-it-happen-to-us anxieties and what-will-they-think-of-us fears. Taboo in most cultures, it is all but unspoken in this one, despite high rates of mental illness and suicide, especially among Asian American women.

Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is the artist’s rowdy and highly fibbed response to this silence. Combining personal memories, biographical stories, fictionalized accounts, commercial images, medical history, and over 50 pounds of yarn and unfinished knitting, the piece comically explores mental illness as a metaphor for the lack of honesty in our ailing society. Like her earlier works, it uses humor to tackle a weighty issue, and to skewer her audiences’ expectations. Influenced by satirists and culture-jammers like Michael Moore and The Yes Men, Wong likes to serve up her social commentary with a generous side of wit and sarcasm. Free?, her previous show, spoofed demands for political correctness by fulfilling, tongue-in-cheek, a list of performance-musts for any artist of color (“Be Angry. Be Angry. Be Angry.”).

Cuckoo’s Nest is Wong’s most personal, and she says, most honest performance, yet as the “narrator” (also named Kristina Wong), she’s completely unreliable, if not undeniably dishonest. A San Francisco native and Catholic school graduate who grew up in a conservative Chinese American family, Wong is not used to airing her laundry. Especially not about something so delicate.

If any of this makes her reluctant, you’d never guess. Onstage, her loud, quick-witted persona seems to hold nothing back. In one scene, she tries to land a seat on the therapist’s couch (projected on a video screen like a holy grail) by confessing to an ever-expanding list of problems. The confession soon deteriorates into an audition monologue, raw and intimate details are adapted for dramatic effect, whatever it takes “to land the part” in a free therapy session: childhood molestation, then the assault during college, a brush with razors, the stint as a concubine, and to top it all off, she screams, “I’m Chinese!”

It’s quite a rich history for someone who’s just 28. Wong admits: “I’m trying to locate a certain honesty in this piece, and to say things that we’re all quietly thinking, but in the show I’m not always being honest. I’m using this dishonesty to show how we create fiction in our lives for our own psychic and cultural survival.” If all this can get a bit confusing (So she wasn’t a concubine?), Wong doesn’t mind. In contrast to performers like Sarah Jones, who moves easily from one fully formed character to the next, Wong’s approach is much more open-ended. She doesn’t create characters so much as impressions. We’re never quite sure with her where life starts and performance ends. For Wong this is the best—maybe the only way—to talk about mental illness. “I want the audience to question whether I’m lying or telling the truth because I want to blur the lines between truth and fiction, real and unreal, sane and insane.”

Support from Creative Capital enabled Wong to develop Cuckoo’s Nest by workshopping individual segments. It also helped fund the premiere of the full-length work at Berkeley’s La Pena Cultural Center in December 2006. Wong will continue to hone the piece in 2007, and plans to tour it actively in 2008, eventually adapting a version for use with high school audiences. She hopes that the work will encourage audiences to think about how we diagnose and distance ourselves from the mentally ill. “It’s impossible not be crazy in such a crazy world,” she says, “None of us are as sane as we think.”

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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The winter season always seem to bring an opportunity for dressing up. Jacequlyn Landy’s Frostbite is that “something special” to carry you through the holiday party season and it works equally well to accent a sexy little black dress as it does to glitz up a pair of jeans.

Choose sleeve length to suit your personal style or your climate. The slightly shaped body of this vintage inspired cropped jacket is knit in plain stockinette to highlight the subtle shading of the kettle dyed wool. A densely beaded ribbing provides the perfect border for this seamless top down raglan design and the silver lined crystal beads catch the light beautifully.

SKILL LEVEL: Appropriate for beginning to intermediate knitters. The pattern involves basic shaping, pre-stringing beads, basic bead knitting and is seamless.
GAUGE: 22 sts/28 rows = 4″ in stockinette stitch
SIZE: XS [S, M, L, 1X, 2X, 3X] (shown in size L-long sleeve) Finished bust: 30 [34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54]” and Finished length: 14.5 [15.25, 15.5, 15.75, 16.25, 16.75, 17]”
MATERIALS: [MC] Handpaintedyarn.com-Double Knit [100% wool; 288yd/m per 100g skein]; color: Opal Gray DK; # 3[3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5] skeins
1 set US #6/Xmm double-point needles
32-inch US #6/Xmm circular needle
1400 [1500, 1600, 1700, 1900, 2000] silver lined crystal size 6/0 seed beads
Big eye needle or small piece of wire
Tapestry needle
Stitch markers (6)
SUBSTITUTING YARNS: Choose a smooth DK weight yarn that will provide a good background to the beadwork. Anything too fine or delicate that could break during the pre-stringing process should be avoided.  You’ll need approximately 800 [840, 865, 920, 1000, 1150, 1200] yards 

All of Jacquelyn’s patterns as sold as PDF Downloads.

Berroco’s booklet #272 Lumina/Seduce features 10 beautiful, lacy pieces you’ll want to knit or crochet.  Shawls, scarves, pullovers and necklaces guaranteed to make a statement.  All done in Berroco’s new yarns Lumina and Seduce.

Starsky update.  After taking most of December off I picked up this cardigan again in January and its been interesting.  First I discovered that my back rib was only 1″ instead of the required 3″!  Very upsetting.  But with some help I was able to knit an additional 2″ and kitchner it onto the 1″.  I think after blocking it will be fine and its in the back so I feel a little better. 

You can just see barely see the demarcation.

But this has thrown off the overall measurements.  So I spent some time yesterday measuring and planning the new neckline and shoulder decreases, overall my Starsky will be longer than planned.  I hope I have enough yarn.   

I read in a Starsky KAL on Ravelry that one knitter knits the pieces of her sewn together garments at the same time so measurements are exact.  I can really appreciate this and have started to do this too. 

The back is almost finished, and the right and left sides are coming along, I can see a finished Starsky on the horizon! 

My Slubby Nubby Cardi is finished, I just have to add the buttons and take pics! 

Imagine yourself here: it’s spring and the fertile hills surrounding you are stepped in blooming fruit trees and sprinkled by poppies. Orange blossoms romance the breeze while the eye indulges in every shade of blue and green with bright splashes of wildflower brilliance. This is the land of Valencia, Spain,  where miles of Mediterranean coastline rimmed with soft, white beaches, hug the sea before plunging upward into mountain valleys terraced for every imaginable kind of fruit.  Here food is fresh and delicious, the people relaxed and friendly, and all you have to do all day is indulge your senses.  Here’s a land that will amaze: beautiful, lush and totally unexpected.

And a perfect place to knit. Surround yourself in vistas of mountain and sea while exploring free-range knitting and/or crochet in a finca (Spanish country house) designed by a fellow yarn lover. Amal, my friend, fellow designer, you host and co-instructor, built this country home as inspirational retreat to challenge her guest’s creativity while providing an escape from life’s hectic pace. The finca includes a library just for knitters and crocheters, a pool, sitting areas perfect for companionable clusters or those desiring spells of solitude, and set it all in a world far removed from traffic and demands.  Here, peace and beauty reign. Stir in good food, stunning scenery, a relaxing environment and the opportunity to make friends with like-minded yarn enthusiasts and you have the elements of a perfect vacation.

Visit Jane’s Website to learn more!

I’m very excited to announce the addition of 3 new Independent Knitwear Designers, Ilga Leja, Jacquelyn Landry and Sarah Chilson.  This talented group brings fresh inspiration to your knitting needles and you’ll want to indulge yourself with their creative, yet classic and flattering designs.    

Plus Explore the 2008 Fashion Forecast with the winter issue of Vogue Knitting and LANG Yarns’ Fatto A Mano 162.  And with temperatures dipping below zero across the country its time to bundle up with some frosty weather favorites. 

In This Issue: Classic Glamour For The Girl Next Door / Chinese Luck Dragon Scarf / Celebrate the Seasons of Your Life / Vogue Knitter Winter 07/08 / Fatto A Mano 162 / SOX / Feet First / Get Your Knit & Crochet On With #272 / Warm Hands, Warm Heart / Top It Off / Sweaterbabe’s Intricately Cabled Long Sweater / Goddess Knits Airmid Socks / Gardiner Yarn Works’ 2008 Pattern Collection / Expand Your Knitting Library / Word of Mouth Pays @ Sandrasingh.com /

Classic Glamour for the Girl Next Door
I’m delighted to introduce Jacquelyn Landry’s!  Jacquelyn’s designs are fresh, she has an eye for style & detail and incorporates tailoring techniques in her patterns to keep each garment flattering and comfortable for petite through full figure body types.  Or as Jacquelyn likes to say…Classic Glamour for the girl next door, knitting designs that feel as good as they look!  To learn more about Jacquelyn please visit my Blog.

Chinese Luck Dragon Scarf
Happy Chinese New Year, on Feb. 7th ring in the New Year with my new knitwear designer Sarah Chilson’s Chinese Luck Dragon Scarf.  This scarf inspired the Orphan Foundation of America to launch its “Red Scarf Project,” part of the proceeds of every sale will be donated to them.  To learn more about Sarah please visit my Blog. 

Celebrate The Seasons Of Your Life
Celebrate your life with the ethereal designs of Ilga Leja.  Ilga’s 5 pattern Collections will take you from a day spent seaside or strolling through a magical forest to opening night at the Opera.  You’ll find a project for the rhythm of your daily life in all seasons.  Discover Opera Season, Shawl and Scarf, Mythic Forest, Seascape and Summertime.  To learn more about Ilga please visit my Blog.    

Vogue Knitting Knitting Winter 2007/08
Bright colors are back in fashion and this issue of Vogue Knitting is all about using vibrant shades & hues to your advantage!  31 knitting patterns featuring cables, jackets, shawls and more, this winters must have garments & accessories in textural Technicolor.  Play with brights like fuchsia, aqua & chartreuse, shine like the sun with mellow yellows, opposites attract with black and white stripes and give depth to your knitting with shades of blue.  Plus knitting advice, tips & tricks from the industry’s experts.     

Fatto A Mano 162
The new collection of knitting-fashion by LANG Yarns’, Fatto A Mano 162, has 35 exquisite, individual and stylish knitting patterns for sweaters, jackets, tops and more for the Spring and Summer seasons.  Instructions in German, French, Dutch and English.  And of course LANGS’ eye candy color photography!

SOX
Attention sock aficionados, many of you have been asking for a self patterning yarn, your wait is over Berroco has introduced their new yarn Sox!  Sox is a self striping wool/nylon blend yarn that gives you a jacquard pattern effortlessly.  The touch of wool gives your finished projects strength and durability and its machine washable.  One 100 gram ball makes a pair.   

Feet First
Along with Berroco’s new Sox yarn comes their first pattern booklet dedicated to solely feet!  #275 Feet First, features 8 sock patterns using their new soft sock yarns. They can all be knit on 2 circular needles if you don’t like working in the round on double points.

Get Your Knit & Crochet On With #272
Berroco’s booklet #272 Lumina/Seduce features 10 lacy pieces you’ll want to knit or crochet.  Shawls, scarves, pullovers and necklaces guaranteed to make a statement.

Baby Its Cold Outside!
Its about this cold time of year when despite your thorough search, only one mitten or glove turns up!  Knit yourself and the whole family some quick replacements.  Schaefer’s Lola Flip Top Mittens keep you warm while freeing up your fingers for important tasks, knit & felt Miss Priss Felted Mittens for you & a little one, tweens’ & teens will love the Heather Razor Shell Mitts and think warm head, hands & feet with Lola Pretty Socks, Hat & Wrist Warmers.  For a classic take on warm hands try Martha’s Warmers a cabled muffler with matching headband.  Or for fun Gardiner Yarn Works’ Seeded Rib Wristwarmers.   

Keep the kids dry and warm with Gardiner Yarn Works’ Hearts & Snowflakes, Dawn Brocco’s Jester Hat & Mittens and the Family of Felted Mittens from Cherry Tree Hill.  Have warm hands and feet with the Mabon Harvest Sock & Glove Set by Goddess Knits.  Go wild with Lorna’s Laces Jungle Fun Gauntlets with matching cap & scarf or LANG Yarns’ Glittery Net Arm Warmers.  Berroco offers a gauntlet & hat set Maud and a pair of adorable mittens, Kittens Mittens. 

Dawn Brocco’s stylish sets for women are perfect to dress up a coat Alsacian Scallops Scarf & Mittens, Twin Rib Neck & Wrist Warmer Set & the Tree Of Life mittens, socks and headband set.  And LANG Yarns’ colorful striped Gloves, Open Finger Gloves & Ring Striped Cap are fun for adults or teens.  Knit a stranded colorwork pattern by Elizabeth Morrison, Diamond Hat & Mittens.  Knitting these two easy patterns in the bright handpainted yarn of Madelinetosh will put a smile on your face while keeping you warm, Daisy Mitts and Simply Mittens.  And High Country Knitwears’ versatile, Multi Sized Mittens has practical and whimsical ideas for the whole family.

Top It Off
You know we lose most of our body heat through our heads, so to really keep warm Top It Off with a knit & crocheted cap.  Baby’s especially need their heads covered and Debby Ware has knitting for baby covered!  Try her Baby Beret, Cupcake Beanie, Saturn Stocking Cap, Scrumptious Squiggle Beanie or Stars & Stripes Hat.  And Kidknits entire line of Hats and Hats & Pullover sets are for infants & toddlers. 

Down hill or cross country skiers need High Country Knitwear’s lined Crested Butte Hat or Dancing Leaf Farms’ cozy ear flap Entrelac Hat.  And look chic at the ski chalet in Tanis Gray’s over sized Cabled Scarf & Hat.  Have fun with Sweaterbabe’s crocheted  Easy Crochet Beanie, Schaefer’s Munchkin Hat or High Country Knitwear’s Cowboy Hat.  For an urban look don LANG Yarns Sporty Beret, Caps For Men, Aran Scarf & Ear Muffs Cap or Cashmere Cap, Scarf & Gloves set.  Knit one of Karabella’s stylish sets the Beret & Scarf, Vine Hat & Scarf or Hat & Scarf With Fair Isle Border.  Timeless classics are always perfect, try Oceanwind Knits’ flat topped Keara, Cherry Tree Hill’s Van Dyke Tam & Scarf, Elizabeth Morrison’s stranded colorwork Alishar or Dawn Brocco’s Pillbox With Rolled Brim.        

And these sweet looks from Pick Up Sticks are for women and children…Wavy Flower Hat, Bow Felted Hat and the Bell Hat.

Sweaterbabe’s Intricately Cabled Long Sweater
Sweaterbabe has taken the look of the romantic detailed cardigan of the season to new heights, introducing her Intricately Cabled Long Vest.  Superb detailing mixed with a sexily tailored shape and an extended button-up collar make this look a must have.  Attention to styling details is Sweaterbabe’s trademark and this cardigan has them to the hilt!

Or go for a shorter look with Sweaterbabe’s Lush and Lacy Cardigan.  The waist shaping in the back gives her nearly traditional cardigan a newly flattering, refreshingly feminine form.

Goddess Knits Airmid Socks
Lace knitters love the graceful and intricate shawl patterns of Goddess Knits’, but Renee Leverington is also a genius sock designer.  Fall in love with her latest cabled pair, Airmid.   

Gardiner Yarn Works’ 2008 Pattern Collection
Its always a delight to knit one of Chrissy Gardiner’s, of Gardiner Yarn Works, designs.  Knitting her patterns is effortless and her garments are always a joy to wear and bring many compliments.  This season be wowed by her new socks, Wavelet, Bamboozled and Seedy Rib and her version of this season romantic little top, the Lace Rib Raglan, delicately trimmed in lace and knit in the round.     

Expand Your Knitting Library
Perfectly Brilliant Knits by Melissa Matthay and Sheryl Thies transforms basic sweaters into gorgeous garments that knit up fast and are fabulous to wear. Each design introduces an unique feature, trim or pattern stitch. Combine dazzling yarns with dramatic flair to create 25 tanks, pullovers, ponchos and more. 

Other classics to put on your shelves are Beyond Wool by Candace Eisner Stick, Easy Living Crochet by Carol Alexander Cheryl Potter’s Rainbow Knits For Kids and Jeanne Stauffer’s New Directions In Knitting.

Word of Mouth Pays @ Sandrasingh.com! 
Every time you send a new Customer to my site you’ll both receive $5 off your orders of $25 or more.  Simply have your friend write your full name in the Comments Box during check out & they’ll be refunded $5 and you’ll receive an email with an Online Coupon. 

2008 brings the work of an award winning designer to Sandrasingh.com, Sarah Chilson, an illustrious knitwear designer, knitting teacher, blogger and philanthropist.

Meet Sarah: Sarah was recently living in Japan as a nanny. Every week when she took the children to music lessons, she’d knit at a near-by yarn shop. Dragons are very much a part of the Japanese and Chinese cultures, and Sarah enjoyed teaching the children about many of the dragons. She was especially interested in the Luck Dragon, which is from the Chinese culture.

Now Sarah is back in the states working for Celtic Knot Yarn Shop in Ellicott City, MD and teaching others the joy of knitting. When she heard about the Washington D.C. “Scarf Style Contest” by Interweave Knits, with all entries being donated to the Orphans Foundation and the Food & Friends charities, she felt that the recipient from either charity could use a little luck.

Inspired by her trip to Japan she was moved to create her Chinese Luck Dragon Scarf.  This whimsical scarf soon took on a life of its own, it went on to win first place at the 2005 Washington D.C. “Scarf Style Scarf Contest.”  And it also became a source of inspiration for others, it promted the Orphan Foundation of America to launch its “Red Scarf Project,” 10% of each scarf sale is donated to them.

Sarah (center) accepting her Scarf Style Contest award from judges Nicky Epstein & Binnie Fry

This scarf is knit in two flat pieces with different stitch patterns for the scaly back & belly, and crocheted together. The pattern also includes i-cord and bobbles.  It fastens by pulling the tail through the mouth!  Pattern includes written instructions, charts and colored photographs and is sold as an instant PDF File. 

Materials:
Yarn: Modeled in Lamb’s Pride Worsted and Crystal Palace Squiggle, possible yarn substitutions include Cascade 220 Wool or 100 grams worsted weight wool.  One full hank each of red (MC) and yellow (CC1), or any 2 contrasting colors.
Needles: 9 US (5.5mm), plus two double pointed needles or one circular needle size 7 US (4.5mm) or 8 US (5mm) for i-cord, crochet hook and tapestry needle
Gauge: 4 sts = 1″ (gauge is relatively unimportant, as long as you use a worsted weight yarn)

As a knitwear designer Sarah loves whimsical twists on classic designs.  She tells us…”I am inspired by folk tales and traditional ethnic clothing from around the world, but I appreciate classic and modern fashion design as well.”  Learn more about Sarah at her blog: redthreadsblog.blogspot.com