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As you may have noticed, I have designed a number of patterns in yarn from Rocky Mountain Dyeworks. RMD has become Raventwist, and in celebration we’re running a little contest in the Knit & Knag Designs Ravelry Group.
How to win?
Find one of my designs originally knit in yarn from Rocky Mountain Dyeworks. Then tell me what that yarn is now called at Raventwist.
Your post needs to contain
the name of the design (please link if you can)
the original RMD yarn specified
the Raventwist equivalent
Note, you may enter multiple times, but you do have to use a different pattern for each entry.
In the end, I will enter all correct entries into the random number generator and select a winner.
What can you win?
A kit from Raventwist containing this gorgeousness:
The kit (pictured in the middle left picture) contains the Hugin and Munin pattern, 1 skein of Torc or Tyr from Raventwist in a colour of your choice, a Rune Book Pendant and a Strickland Brooch.
The winner will be posted on May 24.
When winter has finally lost its grip on our part of the world, it’s time to sort through the hats, mittens, scarves and what not and put them away until the fall. When I do that, I always look through them and check their condition. When checking the Eragon gloves, I found this:
Gasp! Ok, ok, it’s a tiny hole, but all you knitters know how easily something like this can spread and turn into a giant hole. So obviously it needs to be fixed. These fingerless mittens also happen to be my daughter’s favourites, so fixing them is important.
There are a couple of different ways of doing it. Since the hole happens to be on a finger, I decided that the most invisible way of doing it was this:
I inserted my very pointy, very sharp scissors into the hole and simply cut the finger off. Now, I wouldn’t have done that if the hole had been on the hand or on the cuffs, since that would mean a lot of re-knitting. But a finger on a fingerless mitten is quite small.
I then unravelled the loose ends to expose live stitches and put them on needles.
And then I knit the finger back on. I still had the leftover yarn in my stash, so it was easy to get a perfect match.
Ta-da! The mitten is all ready for the fall. I, on the other hand, plan to enjoy the summer first. Aaah!
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