Just had to share the good news with my knitting peeps!
I always check out the magazine racks at Barnes & Noble for knitting magazines. This time, Let’s Knit Magazine has a supplement with 9 toys for Christmas, and even included enough yarn to make the Christmas Angel pattern in the supplement!
Anyone looking for a quick ornament can get the pattern and yarn kit with purchase of this issue of the magazine.
If angels aren’t your cup of tea, there are 3 other patterns in the magazine itself that you can use the included yarn kit to work up…
I always appreciate this kind of value add to a purchase!
ETA: Its issue 73, Nov. 2013, didn’t realize how they handle their edition numbers until I grabbed a cuppa joe and dove into the magazine.
These patterns are worked up in an Aran yarn, sizes 6 through 8 needles.
I’m not very familiar with tiny yarns, but I imagine reducing the size of the needles and yarn would result in a smaller sweater, just how small is the question.
The British magazines always seem to have freebies on their cover each month. Doesn’t matter if you buy a genealogy magazine, a gardening one or a crafty magazine, there’s always something on the front. I bought a knitting magazine while I was in the UK in April, purely because it had a free knitting row counter in the shape of a ladybird on the front! :yay: Haven’t knitted a single thing from the magazine but I love my row counter! :knitting:
Lessee, a swatch 32 st long @ gauge of 4 sts/inch in worsted should knit up to be 8 inches wide.
32 sts @ gauge of 8 sts/inch in fingering (sock) should knit up 4 " wide.
Yep, you’re right, as usual.:yay: A half width of the stated pattern size.
Row gauge may be the defining issue in following the pattern as written, but so many of us are used to adjusting to handle a different row gauge than quoted in a pattern that I didn’t worry over it…
