KNITTER'S ATTIC PICTURE BLOG

Here are some more knitting projects displayed at the Knitter's Attic store.

We have hats in various colours for newborns. 

Vests made of Sirdar knitting materials, which are not only great for adults.....

but for babies, too.

And, finally, a bunch of pictures from our Knitter's Attic Baby Room.

Stay tuned for more of Knitter's Attic knitting projects and new yarn products we have in stock. We will do our best to be consistent in updating you on new items - after all, creativity is best served when you have excellent tools to express yourself.

We will be posting more material on the Knitter's Attic blog in the upcoming weeks.

For more information on Knitter's Attic, visit out website at KnittersAtticOnline.com.

Give us a call at 1 (905) 508-5637. Also, you can visit the store - we are located at 10119 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, Ontario, L4C 1T7. 

Knitter's Attic store hours are:

Tuesdays to Fridays 10 AM to 5 PM

Saturdays 11 AM to 4 PM

We are closed Sundays and Mondays.

KATIA'S IN BOLIVIA'S KNITTER'S ATTIC

To the left (and to the left), we have some Rhichard Devrieze yarns we talked about in the last Knitter’s Attic blog. However, to the right, we have some more items Knitter’s Attic is now carrying. Welcome to the Attic: Katia Bolivia.

This material is noticeably thick and chunky, making it an excellent choice for knitting materials to use when you are creating a scarf, mittens, toques, socks, and other cover-up pieces of wardrobe.

Bolivia Breakdown:

• 48 per cent bamboo
• 44 per cent wool
• 8 per cent acrylic
• 100 grams skein
• 140 metres in length

Stay tuned for more of Knitter’s Attic knitting projects and new yarn products we have in stock. We will do our best to be consistent in updating you on new items – after all, creativity is best served when you have excellent tools to express yourself.

We will be posting more material on the Knitter’s Attic blog in the upcoming weeks.

For more information on Knitter’s Attic, visit our website at KnittersAtticOnline.com.

Give us a call at 1 (905) 508-5637. Also, you can visit the store – we are located at 10119 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, Ontario, L4C 1T7. 

Knitter’s Attic store hours are:

Tuesdays to Fridays 10 AM to 5 PM

Saturdays 11 AM to 4 PM

We are closed Sundays and Mondays.

P.S. Just in case you are wondering how to wash this stuff...here you go!

A FRESH DEVRIEZE IN THE KNITTER'S ATTIC

Knitter's Attic is now carrying a well-stocked collection of The Yarns of Rhichard Devrieze.

These hand dyed; hand painted beauties are ideal for material crafties specializing in crocheting, knitting, and fibres.

As you can see from the picture on the bottom-left, we have several variations of this beautifully crafted material. Some like the Noro - we talked about in the last Knitter's blog -, are solid colours. While other items have colours that intertwine with one another.

Compared to our other Knitter's Attic materials, these are not as long. This is due to the overall thickness of the product, which reduces the length, but never the quality.

You can find more information about Yarns by this Canadian, on Rhichard Devrieze's official website. You can also visit Knitter's Attic and ask our staff and/or our owner about these materials, too.

Stay tuned for more of Knitter's Attic knitting projects and new yarn products we have in stock. We will do our best to be consistent in updating you on new items - after all, creativity is best served when you have excelled tools to express yourself.

We will be posting more material on the Knitter's Attic blog in the upcoming weeks.

For more information on Knitter's Attic, visit our website at KnittersAtticOnline.com.

Give us a call at 1 (905) 508-5637. Also, you can visit the store - we are located at 10119 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, Ontario, L4C 1T7. 

Knitter's Attic store hours are:

Tuesdays to Fridays 10 AM to 5 PM

Saturdays 11 AM to 4 PM

We are closed Sundays and Mondays.

NORO......BACK IN THE ATTIC!!!

Hello to all our Knitter’s Attic blog readers. We have fabulous news: NORO IS BACK!

The brainchild of its Japanese creator Eisaku Noro more than four decades ago, this hand spun yarn is great for knitting sweaters, cardigans, and toques. As well as longer pieces and more elaborate pieces of clothing. As you can see from the picture on the side, Noro yarn comes in a plethora of colours, intertwining with one another to create a fabulous and visually appealing knitting project or in solid colours, but still with the same visually appealing effect.

Knitter’s Attic is happy that again, we are carrying Noro in the Attic.

If you are experiencing slight knitter’s block, and are unsure of how to use Noro yarn or what you could possibly knit with this material. Do not worry, we have you covered. In the store, we have a little table with some chairs set up, and the owner of Knitter’s Attic is always willing to sit down and have a chat. Better yet, why not come on over to the Knitter’s Attic, and we will sit you down with Noro’s recent publication to the side there. Take your time and flip through the pages, get some opinions from the staff and/or the owner of Knitter’s Attic, buy some Noro yarn, select the right needles, if you do not already have them at home, and you will be on your way in no time to creating beautifully finished knitting projects.

Some possible creations with Noro are A-Line Raglan Tunic, Batwing Pullover & Cowl, Bobble-and-Vine Mittens, Cabled Beret, Chevron Scarf, Color-shift Cowl, Colorblock Bag, Colorblock Fisherman’s Sweater, Convertible Button Cowl, Crew-neck Pullover, Double-Crochet Cowl, Faux Cables Long Cardigan; Garter Triangle Shawl; Garter Wave Scarf; Gauntlets; Heart Blankets; Lace-and-Rib Socks; Lacy Cuffs; One Cowl Three Ways; Oversized Cowl; Oversized Tunic; Oversized Vest; Pompom Beanie; Rectangular Poncho; Relaxed Cardigan; Reversible Cowl; Ripple Scarf; Side-to-Side Wrap; Smocked Fingerless Mitts; Striped-and-Textured Cowl; Traveling Stitches Socks; Turtleneck; Twisted-stitch Earflap Beanie; Whirl Beanie; Woven Cape; Wrap Front Pullover; ZigZag Lace Cowl.

These are just a few wonderful designs submissions to Noro by knitter’s just like yourself. You can find more information about Noro products on their official magazine website. You can also come down to Knitter’s Attic and ask our staff and owner about Noro yarn materials, too.

Stay tuned for more of Knitter’s Attic knitting projects and new yarn products we have in the store. We will do our best to be consistent in updating you on new items – after all creativity is best served when you have great tools to express yourself. 

We will be posting more material on the Knitter’s Attic blog in the upcoming weeks.

For more information on Knitter’s Attic, visit our website at KnittersAtticOnline.com.

Give us a call at 1 (905) 508-5637. And/or you can visit the store – we are located at 10119 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, Ontario, L4C 1T7.

Knitter’s Attic store hours are:

Tuesdays to Fridays 10 AM to 5 PM

Saturdays 11 AM to 4 PM

We are closed Sundays and Mondays.

Norwegian Hats

Norwegian Hats

Hello, again, everyone. As promised, I am posting more regularly. I have had this piece for some time now in my store. One because I like to show customers and general visitors alike, what fabulous creations they can make together with a great imagination, a good knitting needle, and both the right kind and high quality yarn.

And two, because, I feel a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment when I complete a project applying both great skill and a great imagination, a good knitting needle, and both the right kind and high quality knitting material(s).

The piece you see in the background is a hat made in the Norwegian style of knitting.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Norwegian style hat, and more specifically, Norwegian style knitting, Norwegian knitting is hundreds of years old.

A quick search on the Internet will let you know that historical accounts suggest that Norwegian knitting might have come Denmark as early as 1500.

As with many traditions that are transplanted from neighbouring geographical locations, or from one part of the world to another part of the world back then, and even now. Historians believe that the Danish tradition/custom of knitting brought to Norway through trading seaports.

Also, as with many traditions/customs done by one part of the population based on socio-economic status, geography, language, etc., that eventually becomes an accepted activity amongst people at the other end of the ‘social spectrum’. Knitting was not was…how should I say this…cool?

Knitting was looked down upon, as a hobby or social activity for commoners, thieves, and persons of the ‘lower classes’.

In any case, I am not a history teacher. Check out my fellow knitter, Beth Brown-Reinsel at Knitting Traditions for all things knitter/knitting-history related.

Bringing it back the piece shown in the background is a hat, which made with the Norwegian style of knitting in mind.

I have already told you about the knitting of the hat, but I have not talked about the yarn I used.

If you look at the picture, you can see that I have used Naturally Loyal Pattern Prints.

At Knitters Attic, we have quite a few variations of this product. Some come in multi-coloured yarn options, and some come in one, solid colour.

The Naturally Loyal Pattern Prints yarn has the following breakdown:

• Weight is 8 ply (11 wpi) or 22 stitches(Light)
• Length is 104 meters
• Unit Weight is 50 grams.
• Gauge is 22.0 stitches or 4 inches
• Best Needle size to use is 6 or 3.25 – 4mm
• Fibers – material is made out of 100% Wool (great for keeping your head warm, but with room to let your head breath so it is not a sauna under there)
• Texture is Plied.
• You are in luck. Naturally Loyal Pattern Prints has you covered by providing you with this machine washable material for all your present and future knitting needs. Mild machine-wash, though. I would recommend this most machine washing – helps the item and the material last longer and keep its original quality that made you want to buy it in the first place.

Stay tuned for more of my knitting projects on the Knitters Attic blog.

For more information on Knitters Attic, visit our website at KnittersAtticOnline.com. 

Give us a call at 1 (905) 508-5637. And/or you can visit the store – we are located at 10119 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, Ontario, L4C 1T7.

Log Cabins and Snugly Baby Bamboo Sweaters

Log Cabin with Patons Canadiana

Log Cabins

To say that it has been a while since I last posted, would be a gross understatement.

But just because I haven’t posted in some time, doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy behind the scenes working on knitting projects and running the Knitters Attic store.

One of my New Year’s resolutions is make sure that I am keeping all the Knitters Attic blog readers updated with the happenings of myself and the store. I am going to start by posting a bit more regularly.

So, I’ve already told you that I have been behind the scenes working on a number of knitting projects.

Log Cabin with Sample Patons Canadiana Yarn I Used

This Log Cabin to your right, I knitted using Patons Canadiana.

For those of you who are not familiar with Log Cabins or Log Cabin knitting.

Log Cabin knitting or the Log Cabin knitting technique, starts with the knitter creating the centerpiece -- a square.

From there, the knitter creates strips, which are then added to all the sides of the square.

After adding these initial strips to the sides of the square centrepiece, the knitter can keep going and going and going like that famous pink battery bunny.

Patons Canadiana

The sky and your creativity really is the limit as to how expansive and diverse in colour you want to go. In the photo immediately above this text, I have included some sample colours of the Patons Canadiana yarn that I used for this project.

It's been a While

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