Postage Stamp

#1

Hi everyone - does anyone know if there is a pattern for the US postage stamps featuring knitting?

#2

I have seen the charts in ravelry…If you are a member of ravelry you can see the grouphere… I can’t seem to find them anywhere else… :shrug:

Here is a linkthat you might be able to use… it turns different graphics into charts…you could also google for graph knitting paper and graph it out that way too…:thumbsup:

#3

here’s a large pic, can zoom in for good detail. You could make your own chart easily enough. or just knit straight from the pic.
http://www.knittingnewscast.com/news/uploaded_images/HolidayKnits300dpi-768615.jpg

#4

somewhere on this site, a link was posted to the Detroit Free Press with the article about the woman who designed these stamps and knit them too of course…maybe she can be reached?

#5

ok, wait, maybe I made that whole Detroit Free Press thing up…hmm, sorry about that, but I did find this link http://stamps.about.com/od/newsandculture/ig/2007-U-S--Stamp-Program/Holiday-Knits-Block.htm
and you can get a full size pic of the stamps and maybe do a count from there. The designer is Nancy Stahl…sorry I lied before ! >:)

#6

They are not exactly knittable from the stamp because they have been digitally edited – if you look close you’ll note that there are upside-down stitches :teehee: …the Ravelry group does have charts though. :thumbsup:

#7

Thanks you - I have signed up for Ravelry - it looks like there are lots of people ahead of me in line to get in. I don’t need to knit the pattern until next Christmas, I really want to make a scarf out of that snowman. If I get desperate I will just have to do the graph paper thing and design my own.

that’s OK Bethany

#8

I believe you can purchase the kit from the person who created the pattern:

www.cityknits.com