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Helen Hamann Designs and Kits!
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| Helen’s newest designs |
There were lots of people looking for Helen when we were there–her designs are always popular because of the great design. Helen couldn’t make it in person, but we showed off her wonderful calendars, and garments, plus kits for many of her styles.
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| In the 2012 Calendar |
This gorgeous ball gown was absolutely the biggest hit of the entire fashion show!
Now, here’s your chance to grab one of Helen’s kits at 20% off!
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We have an extensive variety of kits in beautiful colors. More than a dozen styles to choose from!
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So go pick your favorite, and make your next project a real stunner!
Make a gigantic impact with Color
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| Fassett’s Patchwork Designs |
It’s easier than ever before with Regia’s Design Line by Kaffe Fassett
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Rowan’s Master Colorist, Kaffe Fassett, has created beautiful combinations for Regia Yarns. Those of us familiar with his work can spot a Fassett design a mile away, and love them all. But of course the knitting patterns were so daunting–combinations of fair isle and intarsia, with complex color changes using often dozens of colors and yarns in one project!
Now Fassett revisits some of his favorite shapes and patterns using combinations of these variegated yarns with each other and solids. Get fabulous results with simplified technique!
The great color combinations
of Regia Design Line
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| Kaffe Fassett’s colorways |
It’s that time of year again! The calendars for 2012 are here. Without equal, here’s the
Helen Hamann 2012 Calendar
The 2012 Calendar contains a new pattern from Helen for every month, plus two bonus patterns for Nov/Dec of this year.Lots of accessories in this one–great for smaller projects.
You get the beautifully photographed 14 month calendar, plus a code to download any or all of the 14 patterns. What could be better?
Special Sale!
New Crochet and Knit patterns and favorites from Stitch Diva!
Our good friend the Stitch Diva, aka Jennifer Hansen, has new drop-dead gorgeous patterns, and every one deserves to be on the red carpet!
Andalusia can be worn at least ten different ways–you are going to want at least one of these in your closet.
Stitch Diva patterns are innovative, interesting, packed with instructional photos, and they all come with Jennifer’s great tutorials posted on the web so you will “get it.”
All Stitch Diva patterns 15% off through November 14!
This was a great TNNA market! I came home feeling newly energized and enthusiastic about knitting & crochet: new yarns, new designers, fashion trends. It was actually the most exciting Market I have attended, even though there were fewer exhibitors and fewer attendees than previous markets. Maybe it was just that all the excitement was distilled down and distributed among fewer people.
I arrived Thursday afternoon and went to a class on intentional patterning of hand-dyed yarns. I need to actually try it out on some of our yarn before trying to communicate it to all of you.
Friday I spent most of the day in class with Cat Bordhi, (you’ve heard of her, right?) learning more about writing up patterns for kits. Cat is one of those people who just “charges into the fray” and somehow things come out right. So much energy!
Monday morning I spent with Lily Chin, in a class on interpreting fashion trends. What a fun and knowledgeable lady — she is soooo talented, and she talks a mile a minute.
I hope to use these classes to increase the interest in our newsletters as well as our products and patterns that we offer to you.
Next post, pictures!
There’s been a lot of, well, let’s just say “controversy” about the new Louet pattern subscription service. As an online retailer, we never quite understood the system.
BUT there are a lot of great things about it, not the least of which is that Louet has expanded to include new designers. The best known is surely Melissa Leapman–her designs stand out as being so polished, so complete. And of course we all know Ann Budd for her timeless, universally appealing and practical designs.
So the news is that we will be offering most of Louet’s new patterns, formerly only available through the subscription service, as downloadable patterns on Handknitting.com . Please do give us a few days to get them all uploaded to the website.
Kirsten, new pattern from Louet
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