Geek-A-Long News, Knit Life
Prize Winners and the Pebble Skipping Hat
As I type this, Megan-Anne and I are in a hotel in Pittsburgh. It’s the night before our trunk show at Knit One. There are trays of half eaten take out scattered over our beds along with a healthy dose of WIPs. Megan-Anne is working on another pair of Shining Sequence Mittens in different colorways to show you what they’d look like with duplicate stitch instead of beads and I’m racing to finish my latest amigurumi creation for the Summer of Crochet so I can work on Jessica Gore’s new pattern, The Pebble Skipping Hat.
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I’m really excited about this hat. Normally, we keep all of our yarn designs “in house,” which is yarn-biz talk for “we don’t provide yarn support to designers.” Our roots are in designing, and we love to do it ourselves, but we figured it was time to stretch our legs as a company and start working with other designers. Jessica Gore was one of the first people we worked with to find the right yarn and colorway for her vision.
Knit with a skein of Adventure in 80s Hair Band, the hat is designed to be a relaxing knit with textured stitches to make variegated and speckled yarns shine. Since we’re celebrating Christmas in July here at Lattes & Llamas, I thought I’d take the opportunity to get a jump on my holiday knitting. I picked out the Carnivale colorway for my special someone, she’s super into green and purple, and I’m interested to see how a heavier variegated yarn will play out on this design.
If you’ll be in the Pittsburgh area today, we’ll be at Knit One all day today. And hopefully, I’ll have casted this on and you can see it in person.
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Alrighty, now for our prize winners! Cascade Yarns sent us four big sweater kits for four lucky winners this month:
Congratulations to susaninhugo, apiluk, and currentlypurring!
And a special congratulations to MarileeRD, who snuck in a win with her bonus Science Bros submission! This chart is a special pattern for our Geek-A-Long Guild members. I giggled the whole time I designed this one, and I hope she enjoys it on her blanket as much as I did turning Iron Man and the Hulk’s sciencey bromance into stitches.
To be honest, whether fate picked her number or not, I was totally going to share this pic with you today. It makes me so happy. :D
~Jac
Alright, so apparently it’s already after midnight and the winners were technically supposed to be announced on Friday. Ooops! But it’s still Friday on the USA’s west coast, rigt? That’s gotta count for something.
OMG, I won a prize! Eek! I’ve never posted a photo to Ravelry and learned how just for this drawing and because I love, super love, all your patterns and yarn. I screamed loud enough this morning to wake up my dog. I’m sure he though we were being robbed. Yay, thank you!!
Congratulations, Susan!
MarileeRD here – OMG also! I am so thrilled to have won! I have really been enjoying knitting along with this KAL/GAL, and this makes it even better! I did absolutely giggle a lot while I was knitting the Science Bros – their portraits are so cute, and whole thing is just adorable :)
Congratulations, Marilee!
Thanks for sharing your story. My thoughts and prayers are with you. P
I can’t believe I won! I sent a message with lots of exclamation points on the 9th through Ravelry with my info but didn’t hear back – just wanted to make sure my message wasn’t eaten! Thanks!