knitbot, by Hannah Fettig

***Congratulation, Kelly L.! You’ve won the copy of Bambeanies!! ***
This past summer while at a trade show I had the pleasure of meeting Woolly Wormhead, the creative designer behind many, many wonderful hats.  You may remember I went through an obsession with her hats last year, I think I may have been so bold as to say I was going to knit all of them using all the colors of Quince yarns.  Well, I got a little distracted working on Coastal Knits.

Well, when Woolly sent me her new book, Bambeanies, the obsession came flooding back.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Having a toddler myself, I want to knit ALL of these!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All together there are 20 unique hat patterns, if you have little ones in your life Bambeanies would be a wonderful thing to add to your collection.  If you’re a beginner knitter, the book offers a lot of help.  It includes illustrated tutorials that teach you how to cast on, to knit in the round, to cable, to work short rows, to work kitchener’s stitch, and to graft live stitches.

I have a copy to giveaway! (Don’t worry, I still have my own copy, too.  I WILL be making some of these hats!)

Leave a comment below in praise of Woolly and her hats and I’ll select a winner at random Friday, November 4. (How is it November already?!)

 

 

I’m happy to release to you today a new Knitbot pattern, Framed Pullover.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was originally published as the Lettuce Pullover as part of my 2009 Knitscene collection.  Some small adjustments have been made, including gauge, and it is available in more sizes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Framed Pullover features a fingering weight yarn by Baah! Yarns, hand dyed in small batches by Mira Cole in La Jolla, California.  You could substitute any lace or fingering weight yarn!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The past few weekends I hit the road for a mini Coastal Knits tour.  It was wonderful to be able to share the book with actual people, knitters!

First stop was Knitwit Yarn Shop, my LYS, the place where I officially fell in love with knitting 6 years ago.  The shop has a new owner, Suzie, and she is just great.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here she is modeling the Water’s Edge Cardigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s an old buddy, Karen, trying on the Panoramic Stole.

Next up was Stitches East.  I sadly have no photos because I forgot my camera!  But I loved meeting everyone who came by the String Theory booth.  Some even brought there books from home to be signed, it was great to get there feedback on the book since they’d already had a chance to spend time with it.  Everyone was so enthusiastic about Coastal Knits, it was so great to hear.

This past Sunday I was at Purl Diva.  Ellen was a lovely host, look at my giant cup of tea!

Carrie, Immie and Cecily came for the event, it was so nice to see all of them.  Carrie took the East Coast photographs for the book and Cecily did some technical editing.  And Immie, well she was just cute :)

At this event in particular everyone was commenting on how much they loved the local places mentioned in the book.  I’ve seen similar comments on-line about Alana’s California inspiration locations.  We’re so glad everyone is enjoying this feature!  Coastal Knits is so special to us.  It means a lot that it can be special to so many others, too.

Thank you again to everyone who pre-ordered Coastal Knits!
Alana and I are excited to announce the winner of the pre-order giveaway:

Kathleen Moul!


 

Enjoy all your new yarn!!

Hello friends!  A lot of Coastal Knits news to announce this afternoon:

If you’ve visited Alana’s blog today, you know that Coastal Knits is in the building!  It will be shipping out to everyone who’s ordered thus far starting on October 15.  You can still pre-order through October 14 and receive the pre-order package and be entered in the ginormous Coastal Knits giveaway.

For those in New England, I’ll be doing a few book signings this month.  Please come on by if you’re in the area!
October 15, 1:30 – 3:30 Knitwit Yarn Shop – Portland, Maine
October 21, 1:30 Stitches East, Hartford, CT – String Theory Booths 820, 822, 824
October 23, 1 – 3 Purl Diva – Brunswick, Maine

Beginning this Saturday, the Coastal Knits Blog Tour kicks off!  We hope you enjoy following along as the book is reviewed, interviews are conducted, and many of those involved in Coastal Knits chronicle their experiences helping create this book!

Saturday, October 15 – Never Not Knitting Podcast hosted by Alana and Hannah
Monday, October 17 – Kate Oates of Tot Toppers
Tuesday, October 18 – Knitmore Girls, podcast review
Wednesday, October 19 – Mary Joy Gumayagay, our wonderful graphic designer
Friday, October 21 – Romi Hill of Designs by Romi
Monday, October 24 – Andrea Sanchez, adventures of a sample knitter
Wednesday, October 26 – Kelbourne Woolens, distributors of The Fibre Company
Friday, October 28 – Allegra Wermuth, of Petite Purls
Monday, October 31 – Susan B. Anderson
Wednesday, November 2 – Carrie Bostick Hoge, of Maddermade and Quince & Co.
Friday, November 4 – Wendy Bernard of Knit and Tonic
Monday, November 7 – Nicole Dupuis, sample knitter chronicle
Wednesday, November 9 – Ariane Caron – Lacoste of Falling Stitches
Friday, November 11 – Deirdre Kennedy, adventures of a sample knitter
Monday, November 14 - Shannon Cook of Luvin the mommyhood
Wednesday, November 16 – Anne Hanson of Knitspot
Friday, November 18 – Julie Crawford of Knitted Bliss
Monday, November 21 – Margaux Hufnagel of tentenknits
Monday, November 28 – Kirsten Kapur of Through the Loops
Wednesday, November 30 – Jaala Spiro of Knit Circus
Friday, December 2 – Cecily Glowick MacDonald of Winged Knits
Monday, December 5 – Veronika Jobe of Yarn on the House

Thanks to everyone for all your enthusiasm for this project!!