Skill Level: Advanced Beginner

Description: Learn to make adorable, seamless baby booties which mothers love because they actually stay on! This is a great quick knit and a wonderful use for leftover sock yarn.

Materials: Printed copy of pattern “Christine’s Stay-On Baby Booties” which can be found for free at here, at least 100 yards of fingering weight yarn, set of 5 size 2.75mm double pointed needles, tapestry needle.

Homework: Before class, cast on 11 sts (yes, really, even though the pattern says 10 sts) using your preferred method and work 36 rows in garter stitch. Leave work on needle and bring to class.

Skills Learned: Picking up stitches, short-row shaping, I-cord.

Dates: Wednesdays, May 30 and June 6 from 6-7:30pm

To sign up, please call 503.922.1150, stop by the store, or email class@twistedpdx.com.

The complete Twisted class calendar can be found here.

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But, anyway, nice weather will be here soon-ish, and Twisted is getting ready for it by bringing in warm-weather yarns. One of our recent additions is yet another great work-horse yarn from Brown Sheep Company, Cotton Fleece. This year-round, DK to light worsted-weight yarn is a blend of crisp cotton for comfort and merino wool for softness and elasticity. Cotton Fleece produces garments that retain their shape, and is available in a wide range of colors.

Fiber: 80% pima cotton 20% merino wool
Weight: Dk to Light Worsted
Gauge: 5 sts/1″
Needles: US 6-8
Weight: 100 grams
Length: 215 yards (197 meters)
Care: Hand wash. Dry Flat.
Price: $9.75

We’ve got a great sample in the shop in this yarn, too. The Effortless Cardigan from Hannah Fettig, knit by the mastress of sample knitting, Sarah P.

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Katje knit these insanely awesome felted crowns for every wee one attending her daughter, Vivian’s, third birthday party. Luckiest little girl in the whole world! And the most adorable model you could imagine for these stunning crowns from a free pattern on Ravelry, knit in Brown Sheep Lanaloft Worsted and Bulky, and decorated with felted baubles (our favorite new little crafty notion!) and lots of creativity.

Thanks so much to Katje and Vivian for taking the time for our photo shoot! Guest appearances by Carat and Nugget, who Vivian calls “the Pig Dogs”. She’s as smart as she is cute, folks.

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Have you tried handknitting socks, and struggled through the process? Do you have joint pain that prevents you from working with small needles? Do you just want to try something new? Knitting socks on a sock loom is a fun alternative to traditional sock knitting. Using an adjustable sock loom, you’ll learn basic loom-knitting skills, including all the steps needed to create a sock. We’ll knit a top-down baby sock in class, and you’ll have the skills to knit socks of all sizes on your sock loom. We will not be using circular looms, but rectangular adjustable sock looms.

Materials: Materials – either bring your own or before/during class get 20% off on:A skein of sock yarn of your choice (preferably at a called-for gauge of 7 sts/in) and an adjustable, rectangle sock loom. Your loom may come with a recommended yarn weight. If so, please bring the yarn suggested by your loom.

This class is being taught by Parna this Saturday, March 31 from 10-2:30 with a half hour break for lunch.

Call us or come by the shop to register!

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“Knit Definitive” shows off one ultra-modern sweater. “High Definition” explores gentle textures. “Fancy Work” rethinks beaded knitting. “Airs and Graces” sets out to discover new ways of knitting airy fabrics. And “Knitting Fundamentals” rounds up some fast, simple knits that show off bold color. PLUS, we’re getting up close and personal with Mari Lynn Patrick, and setting out to swatch the lace universe. Spring is just around the corner—shake off the winter and get knitting!

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For once in life, the answer isn’t as complicated as you might fear! Here’s the deal:

All Addi Click tips and cords use the same locking mechanism, so in that sense they are compatible. BUT the tips themselves are different lengths. For that reason, they require different length cords to make any particular size circular needle.

Please note that if any of the below links to our web store don’t work that means we are temporarily out of stock of that item.

The original Addi Turbo Click tips are apprx 5″ long. So to make a 24″ long circular needle, you’ll have two 5″ tips = 10″, which means you need a cord 14″ long to end up with a complete needle that’s 24″. Addi Bamboo Click tips and Addi Long Tip Lace Click tips are both apprx this same size.

The Addi Lace Click tips, on the other hand, are apprx 3.5″ long. That’s apprx 1.5″ shorter per tip, which means 3″ shorter overall when the tips are combined into a needle. So, the cord needs to be 3″ longer to make up it. 3.5″ tip + 3.5″ tip = 7″ in tips. To get a 24″ needle, that means your cord has to be 17″.

In other words, an Addi Turbo Click cord advertised to make any length of complete needle will be apprx 4″ shorter than Addi Lace Click cords advertised as making that same length. The cords are different lengths to offset the different tip length.

The reason for making the Lace Click tips shorter was to enable the creation of 16″ and 20″ circular needles. The longer Turbo Click tips and Bamboo Click tips can’t accomplish this – there would be too much tip and too little cord to make a circle out of your “circular” needle. Only the shorter Addi Lace Click tips can pair with the shortest 16″ and 20″ Addi Lace cords to make 16″ and 20″ needles that are useable.

Because shorter needle tips are less comfortable for some knitters, Addi has now released Long Tip Lace Click sets, which have tips that are the same length as the original Turbo Click Sets – apprx 5″.

In addition, the Long Tip Lace Click cords are the new Lifeline Cords! Each cord has two eyelets near each end. If you thread waste yarn through these holes, you can add a lifeline as you knit with zero extra effort. The eyelets stay closed and unnoticeable when you’re not using them. And the case is pink!

We’re now taking PREORDERS for the Long Tip Lace Click set and offering $10 off for a limited time only!

I hope that helps explain Addi Click tips and cords to you. Please feel free to email us if you have any questions!

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Designed by Chrissy Gardiner of Gardiner Yarn Works.

This nature-inspired shawlette features three different lace leaf motifs and is named after Mt. Mazama, the ancient mountain that exploded to form southwestern Oregon’s spectacular Crater Lake. Your finished object will be just as stunning!

This design has several fun details: a knit-on border, a subtle swallowtail shape with two points at the bottom edge instead of one, and a small peak at the back of the neck. Worked as written, this petite shawlette uses a single skein of sock yarn. However, it can easily be expanded into a full-size shawl with extra yarn simply by adding additional pattern repeats.

Yarn: 400 yards fingering weight yarn. Sample shown in one skein of Black Trillium Fibre Studio BFL Sock Yarn (100% superwash merino wool; 400 yards/366 meters per 115 gram skein), colorway Portland Rose.
Gauge: 24 st = 4” in stockinette. 24 sts/38 rows = 4″ in body pattern un-blocked.
Needles: US #5/3.75mm circular needle, 24” or longer.
Notions: Stitch markers, tapestry needle.
Skill level: Intermediate.
Size/Finished measurements: 20″ tall x 44″ wide, measured after blocking.

Buy your copy today either in our shop or from our web store for $6.

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We’ve had great new teachers and classes added to our repertoire, including the super-popular Tunisian Crochet (we’ve got one coming up on January 7th, from 12-3pm, and there are still a few slots left). Tunisian Crochet may just be the next big thing, folks.

Amazing new products, like the phenomenonal Madelinetosh, in an ever-expanding line (we now carry Tosh Merino, Tosh Vintage, Tosh DK, Tosh Merino Light, Tosh Prairie and Tosh Sock. We are quite sure we’ll be adding more and more of this yarn in the coming year.

We met the super-lovely Sarah from Plucky Knitter at the fantastically fun Sock Summit, and started working with her, carrying her knock-you-on-your-booty Primo Fingering and Worsted. This yarn is pretty flipping fantastic – a great ply, a soft yet firm hand, and such a wonderful softness…

We’ve got new things from old favorites, like the awesome, gorgeous and useful knitting mugs from our friends Jampdx. Meghan and Jenn gifted Emily and I each with one, and, even though we have a million and two coffee mugs at home, I find myself washing my hand-thrown Jampdx mug pretty much every day, just so I can enjoy my morning coffee in this fabulous piece of art.

And, as a reminder, we are open regular hours today (9am-8pm), so if you need any of these items, or anything else for that matter, come on by! We have hot tea, comfy couches, friendly staff, and the best darned yarn in the universe!

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If you’d like to coordinate your own effort and donate a blanket within your community, please send Leigh photos of your work in progress and completed blankets as she’ll be posting photos of everyone’s efforts as this project progresses.

How to contribute: Download free pdf of pattern and knit one panel. This is a great project for using up yarn from your stash – follow the color chart provided or create a color palette of your own.
Download pattern: On Leigh’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/leighradfordauthor). Access pattern by clicking “Albers Stash Blanket” on the menu bar to your left.
You can drop off your completed panels at Twisted, or message Leigh (onemoreskein@leighradford.com).
Due date: Panels need to arrive in Portland/OR by January 31, 2012.
Questions? OneMoreSkein@leighradford.com

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