The current issue of Knitter's Review has a 10% off coupon for Knitpicks - that along with the free shipping for orders over $30 encouraged me to send in an order. I'm finally springing for a Circular Solution for my circular needles. I already have one for my double points (see photo above) and I adore it. I am looking forward to storing my circular needles so they won't be all curled up anymore. I am always too lazy to uncurl them before I start knitting anyway.



I also ordered four colors of Shetland Spindrift to make two more pairs of mittens from Folk Knitting in Estonia and some smaller doodads - a needle sizer that actually goes down to 000 needles, a line magnifier magnet thing to help while reading charts, and more tapestry needles. You can never have enough tapestry needles.



I have another giveaway - this time for a colorwork Christmas stocking pattern book - so watch the blog early next week so you can sign up for the contest.

I've started updating this blog in the afternoon instead of late at night, Sunday through Thursday. This is a good thing because Miss Peaches loves to run the Bunny 500 late at night and I enjoy watching her hijinks and having a good laugh. Today's discovery was that her fur is longer than my other bunnies - maybe between 1 1/4 and 1 1/2" so I may be able to spin something from it. I have a laceweight spindle from Kokovoko that I used for the pathetic demo yarn seen here. She's an agouti bun (like wild cottontails) and her fur is gray with brown and black tips.







And here are another pair of rabbit socks. These were done in Country Garden DK - the only superwash yarn I've ever liked. I figured in the amount of time it took me to duplicate stitch all the rabbits I could have knit another pair. sigh

TWINED KNITTING, PART II







JBB writes in yet another Squawkboxtv comment that never showed up on the blog, "There are also two articles by Linda Sokalski and patterns for Swedish two-strand knitting in Threads' Knitting Around the World (Taunton, 1993). One article discusses knitting with colors with a pattern for socks; the second shows the technique in detail with a white-on-white mitten pattern. "



Thanks for that comment JBB. The Threads book is out of print but you may be able to find it on half.com.



The above photo shows the mitten pattern with the decorative crook stitch. There is a special yarn that should be used in twined knitting and Nancy Bush sells it at Wooly West. It is called Mora and is spun S and plyed Z. (I think that is the opposite of the usual way of spinning and plying, right?).



Also, Theresa of Bagatelle in Norway has done a fine online demo with photos of twined knitting HERE.