After many, many hours spent knitting, winding, kitting, and pattern writing, I am jump up and down happy to release my Chevron Love Mitten pattern (and kits!) into the wild.
I have made the pattern available through Ravelry, and the kits available through my shop.

I knit this pair in Brown Sheep’s Nature Spun Sport, and that is what the kits contain. They each have eight 20g skeins in eight coordinating colors. I had the hardest time ever picking out colors, the nature spun line as something, like, almost 80 colors to choose from. Which is crazy, but the people at Brown Sheep are wonderful, and great to work with. They are also really great about working with the indie dyers, and conveniently, lots of there yarn comes in cone form.
I knit these on US 3 needles, magic loop style, and wrote the pattern in one size, but it’s a cinch to up size the mittens by using a bigger needle. They are warm, and the fabric is so. nice.
I have about eighty million more colorways in mind, so every 2 weeks or so I’ll have new kits up, and of course I’ll repeat previous colorways too. I also owe a great big hug and thank yous to my test knitters, Adrian, and Elinor, who both did a fantastic job creating their mittens, and helping me through the particulars. You can see their mittens here, and here.

Filed by Julia at 6:09 pm under Chevron Love,Knitting
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My Chevron Love Mitten pattern is finally ready for it’s release! I’ve been working on getting this out for awhile, now, and finally, the pattern is ready, they have been test knit, and kits are kitted.
I will release them into the wild, tomorrow, March 23rd. I will have many kits available in my shop, and if you’re interested in the pattern only, it will be available through Ravelry, and more than likely I’ll throw a button up in the sidebar.

Filed by Julia at 12:18 am under Chevron Love
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It’s Monday, and here I am with my Chevron Love Hat pattern all ready for you to download. I know! Goal? Met.

This is the first serious pattern I’ve come up with that I’m sharing with all of you, I’ve tried to write it out in the best way I know. However, if there are any questions at all, or if you find any errors, or even have suggestions on how something might be explained more clearly, please do let me know!! Email me here- knitterlythings AT gmail DOT com

AND!! If you knit one of these, I would LOVE to see it! If you have a blog, email me with the link, if you don’t email me some photos, and I’ll start a flickr group for them all! I’m excited to see what you all come up with.

One more thing- This is the first time I’ve ever created a PDF file. I spent alot of time painstakingly formatting this thing in Word as a document file, I finally got it to look all pretty and “right” but then when I converted it to a PDF, alot got lost in the translation. Any suggestions? I’d love to know a better way.

ETA: 08.10.2009
This is no longer a free pattern. I’ve come to the very hard decision. There are too many people using it for their own gain, and I am not comfortable with that. If you have already downloaded this pattern in the past, please do enjoy it.

Filed by Julia at 6:30 pm under Chevron Love,Knitting
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So I was going to post more (and better) photos of the Chevron Love hat, but I’m gonna let Chuckie steal the spotlight instead. (I don’t call him “The Face” for nothin!) So if you’d like to see more photos, click on over to my Flickr page, and view the set.

Filed by Julia at 7:20 pm under Chevron Love,FO!,Meow Mixers
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Alright, first things first! You want to know who won right? I’ll tell you. Thanks to the help of a very handy random number generator, we have 2 winners!
Congrats to Seed Stitch Cheryl, and Fletch Knits Elizabeth! Ladies, I’ve just sent you emails, I’ll be needing your addresses, and some very nice fibery goodness will be finding it’s way to you asap!

Thanks everybody for playing, I’ll have to have more of these fun little contests in the future!

To those of you who guessed my Chevron project was a hat, your right on the money.

It didn’t take long at all, and as I suspected, I almost didn’t make a dent in my handspun stash, just because I used so many colors. Not to worry though, I’ve started another, using just four colors, this time in some leftover felted tweed. As soon as I can write out the crown decreases so that they make sense to everyone, and not just me, I’ll definitely be posting it. My gauge is about 6 St/inch, an the pattern is a multiple of 6 stitches, so it will be very easy to adjust gauge for yarn and head circumferance. I knit it up with a turned facing (easy stuff!), but it could just as easily be worked with ribbing instead.
I’m excited to share this, and see what you all come up with! Thanks to Brandt for modeling, my self portrait attempts were pretty funny!

Filed by Julia at 8:19 pm under Chevron Love
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Okay, now is it more obvious? (Hint: Not a tea kettle cozy!) I’m really having so much fun with this! I’m up to the decreases now, hopefully they work how I want them to. After I finish this one, which is knit with my handspun, I’m going to knit another out of a commercial yarn, and then I’ll post the pattern so you can all have just as much fun with the Chevron Love as I did!

People, I’ve reached another bloggy landmark! This post you’re reading right now is my 200th (!) post!! To celebrate this occasion, leave me a comment, and with the help of a random number generator, and on Friday, I’ll pick a lucky knitter to receive a great fibery gift! Thank you all for reading, I love being here!

Filed by Julia at 12:37 am under Chevron Love,HandSpun,Knitting
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I bet you can guess what this will be now! I’m loving knitting it, it seems to be working up very very fast! I’m using so many colors though, I doubt it’ll be a huge stash buster, but that just means I’ll have to knit more with fewer colors. It also has a facing-

The facing is Baby Ull, not handspun, I definitely wanted a soft, less scratchy facing. No promises, but if I can get this to work out the way I want, and write it out so that it makes sense, I might just have to post the pattern!

Filed by Julia at 6:44 pm under Chevron Love,HandSpun,Knitting
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If some of you handspinners out there are anything like me, you’ve probably got a whole whack of handspun sitting around because it’s pretty, or because you only bought 4oz to begin with, spun it up, and don’t know what to knit with it. Yea. A good bit of my stash is handspun, some that has been around since I first got into spinning, and got my Joy, 3 years ago.

Welp, the time has come to take back my handspun. I went stash diving and raided my stash for handspun in similar weights, and that wee little swatch up there is the makings of a something grand that has been bouncing around my brain for months. A small something grand, but wait til you see the FO!

I’m very itchy to start my next sweater, but I have a queue full of small projects I want to tackle, so I’m going to make a dent in that first. Sweater monogamy be damned!

Also- There will be a big shop update today. Both Vesper sock yarn, and thanks to the help of my lovin man, a huge amount of Superwash rovings. The Shop is Updated!

Filed by Julia at 3:09 pm under Chevron Love,HandSpun,Knitting
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