Eventful knit and crochet ...

Greets!  Just a little reminder to both knit and/or crochet readers that events are happening.  Check with your local yarn store for events coming near or to your town.  Visit Knitter'sReview and InterweaveKnits for more events.  The Daily Crocheter also has a wonderful lineup of events.

CGOA and TKGA Events (Public is invited)
2011 Knit and Crochet Show July 27-31in Minneapolis, MN
2011 Knit and Crochet Show Sept 21-25 in Greensboro, NC

Knitters Connection
2011 Knitters Connection June 15-18, Columbus, OH

Celebrate your knit and crochet abilities, projects, and friends.

Margaret (feeling inspired)

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
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Inspired by wildflowers...

Pic taken at Longwood Gardens last weekend.

“Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.”

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This week has been filled with getting caught up.  Work, work, work should really be knit, knit knit, in a perfect world, but then we would become spoiled and never have a chance to look forward to our knitting projects.

Now, about that wildflower part of the blog...

Imagine knitting with the colors of Meadow, Blue Hyacinth, Helenium Mardi Gras or Coral Hibiscus.

What would you make with a beautiful, soft, bulky muticolored cotton yarn that's made in the U.S. and inspired by American wildflowers?  Take a look at the scrumptious colors and imagine the beautiful projects that you could make with Florafil created by TexturedYarnCompany. Visit the Retail Store Locator...and at Webs.

Live your knitting dreams in color, and enjoy the beauty that surrounds you.

Margaret (loving lavender today)

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Winston and Buddy are here!

Winston, the cat

Winston, the cat, and Buddy, the dog, are the new kids in the String Doll Gang.  They're a super cute accessory and gift for your favorite knitter or dog/cat lovers.  Each of them has a bell, a lobster claw key ring and a fabric tag.  Cute, irresistable and a great way to accessorize your knitting bag, purse and keys. I found one of the Purls(Purl the red head of course) at a knitting event and have her  clipped to my lamp chain in my work room to inspire me. Check the whole gang out at your local yarn store, knitting event, or online.  There's one for everyone.

Kamibashi.com can help you find a local store and give you more info on their products.

Patternworks and YarnDogs also have a variety of these little goodies.

Merry Monday Everyone, Merry Monday.
Margaret (needs more merry, less Monday -lol)

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Kamibashi String Doll- Purl




Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
Tom Wilson
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Blogger, where art thou?

I used leftover yarn to these washcloths for a Craft Hope project...

So glad Blogger is up and running again. Whew!  While I was waiting, I posted my Friday blog on CreatingTheHive -

Needed: A scrappy style with pizazz.  

You don't have to log in or join to read.  Please enjoy, and I'll be back on Monday with a fresh Blogger bloggie filled with knitting adventures.

Margaret (grabbing my needles for a few minutes of knitting gratitude)
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Most common knitting oopsies...

Whenever I'm waiting, I love to take out my knitting and relax.

©MargaretNock, 2011. All rights reserved.

Today, it's all about correcting the oopsies.  Here's a line up of some of the most common knitting mistakes.

KnitSimple offers five common mistakes...and how to correct them.  Take a look.

Grab your crochet hook and try this double knitting technique for correcting your dropped stitches from StitchDivaStudios.

Liat at KNITFreedom has a good video on this subject, Learn to Knit, Troubleshooting Common Mistakes.  You can also see her knit1fortheroad interview here.

Enjoy your knitting, make mistakes and learn from them.  Soon you'll be knitting like a pro.  Pinkie swear.

Margaret (It's a love what you knit, knit what you love kind of day)

Note to my readers:  I've been regrouping from the weekend travels and work and  I apologize for not sharing a daily dose of knitting with you, here.  You can catch two quick posts on CreatingTheHive regarding the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival and some weekend festivites, if you're so inclined.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
--Oscar Wilde
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