Show 33 - Carpe Lanam

This week we take a look at Fair Isle knitting. There's a video available here. You can download it by right clicking on it and selecting Save Target... There's another video showing a different set of techniques available from Philosopher's Wool here.

What's happening
Courthouse Stitch'n'Bitch   Every Sunday at the Courthouse Hotel Newtown 1:30pm
NSW Knitters Guild (Blue Mountains Division)   3rd Saturday of each month at the Blaxland Community Centre
Studio 49 Fibre Retreat   A fibre arts retreat that Old Oak Ranch Sonora 16 to 18 November 2007 (pendria AT sbcglobal DOT net)
Sydney Sity Klickers   Every second Saturday at Barmuda, Australia Street Newtown

This show's music
Heavy Mellow    Spinnaker     (Magnatune)

From the bottom of the knitting bag
Books
Fair Isle Sweaters Simplified  by Ann Bourgeois and Eugene Bourgeios (link)

Check out the new video (it's not as good as the professional ones, but it gives you some idea of my way of doing it) and let me know what you think. Next week, a special interview about a new range of yarns...

You can contact me at david AT sticksandstring DOT com DOT au or
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I'm on Ravelry as DavidReidy.
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