Hi Spud & Chloë Friends,

I was so impressed when I saw that Pam finished a gorgeous version of our Flower Power Throw out of Spud & Chloë Sweater. She did a fantastic job. I thought you would enjoy seeing her masterpiece so I made a slideshow with Pam’s permission to use her photos. She backed the throw with a color block quilt using Anna Maria Horner’s Folksy Flannel (she is one of my favorite fabric designers). The back is a masterpiece on its own. These fabrics are the perfect match and I am sure the flannel is super soft. What a great pairing.

Congratulations, Pam!

Click here to see Pam’s project page for the Flower Power Throw.

Click here to see more about the pattern for the Flower Power Throw.

Click here to see more about the Sweater yarn used for the Flower Power Throw.

Pam purchased the Sweater yarn for her throw right here!

Coming up… Chloë’s Cardigan.

Hi Spud & Chloë Friends,

We have a winner for the Friends of Spud & Chloë Group giveaway for the Little Stripey Hands pattern and 3 hanks of Spud & Chloë Fine in your choice of colors. The winer is….

WatercolorPonies 193 posts

posted 3 days ago (Tuesday, August 9) 16 adorable! Love S&C!!

Congratulations to WatercolorPonies who popped up on my random number generator at number 16 in the comments! Thanks to everyone who entered and be sure to check back for more fun giveaways coming up this fall.

Okay, the sweet little cardigan for Chloë is going to be the next free pattern right here on Spud says! This is the official preview. I’ll have it up and ready to go for you to add to Chloë’s wardrobe by next week.

Have a great weekend and I’ll be back soon with more….

Hi Spud & Chloë Friends,

When I saw these two shades of Spud & Chloë Sweater together a few months ago I could not get the image of a sweet little strawberry out of my head. I thought it would be fun to combine the colorways Barn and Grass to create a delicious little bite of a hat.

I know that berry hats have been done forever but this one has an easy fair isle twist to include the seeds as you knit and a fun little green topper that is also worked right in as you go. The squiggle on top is made in a fun way as well. This hat works up in no time at all and you will be the hit of any baby shower or birthday party when you show up with this yummy treat of a hat as your gift.

The Very Berry Hat pattern is a new addition to our On the Run pattern line. These patterns come on handy little cards that easily slide right into your bag. They are available at local yarn shops and online yarn shops that carry Spud & Chloë. If the Very Berry Hat pattern or any of the On the Run patterns are not in the shop they can quickly and easily get them for you so be sure to ask.

Click here for the Ravelry project page for the Very Berry Hat!

Hi Spud & Chloë Friends,

Today I happily sit and knit the border on the yummy Outer baby blanket I am whipping up. As I was sitting in my living room knitting I stopped for a minute to look at the beautiful pile of Outer in my lap. I happened to have my camera right next me so I took a photo for you of my view. Lovely, isn’t it?

This blanket is really taking shape nicely if I do say so myself. When I make a blanket that needs a border there is always a lot to take into consideration. I thought about a crochet border, a border in one shot with mitered corners, an attached I-cord border and some different color options for the border.

I wound up deciding to use the colorway called Hedge for the border. Here is what I am doing, I simply start on one side with the live stitches, complete a garter stitch border with 3 rows, do a Russian bind off (see the link below), turn and continue on to the next side where I pick up stitches. I am repeating this until each side is complete. It is done without cutting the yarn which is always good.  Also, it gives a clean but substantial border for the blanket.

I love to try new things with each project I do. For this project I tried several new stitch patterns, a crochet provisional cast on and the Russian bind off.

Click here to see my new video tutorial for the provisional cast on I used for this project! If you receive the email version of this post, I realize that for some reason the video tutorials don’t come through with the email. That is why I am providing the link again here.

For the Russian bind off I checked out this video tutorial:

Click here to Paula of The Knitting Pipeline’s video tutorial for the Russian bind off (I only do the bind off knitwise for this blanket.)

One last important thing, I am teaching a Spud & Chloë class on Sept. 16th, 2011 at The Creative Collection in St. Paul, Minnesota. I am very excited about this as it is going to be a fantastic event. September 16th is Vogue Knitting Day at the event and there are all sorts of wonderful classes and teachers with the focus on knitting. It is a knitting star-studded event (that’s kind of funny).

I am offering two separate Toy Knitting Workshops. I will post about this again with more detail soon. For now though here is the link to sign up before the classes fill:

Click here to check to find out the details and to register for my class!

I’ll be back soon with more blanket news…