Another sneak peek from the Spring issue. Ooh, how I long to knit up a pair of these for myself!
We're getting closer and closer to our Digital Debut February 1, and Ms. SABLE and out tech editors have been doing heroic feats of brainpower. They certainly are worth their weight in cashmere.
The Help for Haiti pattern list on Ravelry has grown so long--it warms the cockles of my heart. If you'd like to help, now's the time to treat yourself to that pattern you've been coveting; for me, it was Ysolda's Vine Yoke Cardigan.
Non-knitting crafters are showing their generosity too: Allsorts is donating an embroidery pattern to this terrific online store filled with handmade goodies from letterpress cards to photo prints to handknitted garments.
Onward to the giveaway....this week, courtesy of Potter Craft, we have the popular and wonderful Yarn Girls' Guide to Simple Knits, just released in paperback.
As always, please leave a comment on the blog (click on the little gray 'comments" link under this post), or pm me on Ravelry if you can't get it to work: jaaladay.
If you sign up for our mailing list (put your email in the form at the bottom of this page), you'll be eligible for one of 10 free year-long subscriptions to the Knitcircus pattern collection, normally sold along with the magazine for $7.50 each time.
Good luck--I'll do the drawing Monday evening the 25th, which will the first day of the Blog Tour! Yay.
Jaala
I am looking forward to your first online edition! The fingerless gloves look lovely; just perfect for chilly New Orleans winter mornings.
~Katie
Posted by: Katie | January 22, 2010 at 03:56 PM
Those fingerless gloves are super adorable.
Posted by: Christina | January 22, 2010 at 04:35 PM
I LOVE the fingerless gloves! Great blog-- I also can't wait to see the online edition!
Posted by: Lori Larsen | January 22, 2010 at 05:15 PM
Can't wait to see the online KnitCircus. I'd love to enter the contest.
Posted by: Liz | January 22, 2010 at 05:40 PM
Oh this is one of the books that I have checked out of the library and loved. i would love to be able to have this book as patterns in it are lovely.
Posted by: Maureen | January 22, 2010 at 05:47 PM
The fingerless gloves look great.
Posted by: Nicole | January 22, 2010 at 06:01 PM
Love the glove pattern! Please enter me in the drawing. Thanks!
Posted by: Theadingo | January 22, 2010 at 06:11 PM
Oh, I'd love to win this!
Posted by: Allison | January 22, 2010 at 06:35 PM
I am excited for the Spring Issue! Can't wait!
Posted by: Melissa | January 22, 2010 at 06:44 PM
Ooh pretty mitts
Posted by: Steph | January 22, 2010 at 09:24 PM
Very nice mitts
Posted by: Rachelle (Sable) | January 22, 2010 at 11:20 PM
Stop teasing us - it's terrible! :D
Posted by: AmyP | January 23, 2010 at 04:34 AM
So happy I got to knit that sample. You made them look gorgeous!
Posted by: Helen | January 23, 2010 at 07:00 AM
Your knitting was gorgeous! Of course, an appealing design didn't hurt...
Posted by: Jaala Spiro | January 23, 2010 at 07:21 AM
As a newer knitter I am in awe of all the things I see here! I want to learn to do them all... but starting small and working my way up is probably best... but the eye candy is irresistable!
Thanks!
Posted by: dawn | January 23, 2010 at 08:15 AM
I am REALLY looking forward to this issue!
I use my pdf files of patterns MUCH more than books or magazines. I can leave the pattern open on my lap top and just follow along as I lay back in my recliner. No shuffling and fumbling with paper. It is environmentally sound, and best of all, if I need to see a chart more clearly, I just use the enlarge feature!
That way I can see only a few rows at a time, and just use my mouse (on the arm of the recliner) to move up the rows as they are worked.
I love that people with the right phones can bring along hundreds of knitting patterns for knitting on the go, too.
P.S. Those mitts ROCK,. I have been saving some fingering weight alpaca that will be PERFECT for them.
Posted by: Diana Troldahl | January 23, 2010 at 09:06 AM
Can't wait for the online edition! Its been a treat to follow you guys from the very beginning and see Knitcircus blossom so beautifully!
Posted by: Maggie Shapiro Haskett | January 23, 2010 at 09:57 AM
I am so proud of the knitting community's response to Haitian relief, aren't you?
Oh, and what gorgeous golden yarn.
Posted by: Nancy J | January 23, 2010 at 10:06 AM
Thank you, you're so kind.
:)
Posted by: Jaala Spiro | January 23, 2010 at 10:13 AM
Yes! It warms my heart to see knitters finding creative ways to help. And I agree about the yarn, too;)
Posted by: Jaala Spiro | January 23, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Yay! Feb 1! Can't wait!
Posted by: seiding | January 23, 2010 at 03:30 PM
Can't wait to see your online magazine. I love being able to see them online and download them instantly..
Posted by: Lisa | January 23, 2010 at 07:23 PM
WOW! The fingerless mittens are awesome!
Posted by: Bianca | January 23, 2010 at 10:01 PM
I really like the orange that was used to create the fingerless mitts.
Posted by: Gretchen | January 23, 2010 at 11:18 PM
What a lovely book, and those gloves are fantastic!
Posted by: Heather S | January 24, 2010 at 12:49 AM