New Design: Evalise

I have just added a new design to Kimane Designs.

This one is called Evalise. Unlike most Tunisian crochet projects which have a more masculine look, this button front tank top, or layering piece, includes a lovely Tunisian lace stitch pattern I developed. I’m enjoying developing several Tunisian lace stitch patterns and you can look forward to many more in the future!

Evalise is made in sport weight Honeysuckle Premium Cotton, available on the Peaches & Creme website. The pattern, written in six sizes of Small through 3X is currently available for a limited time, new publish discount. Enjoy!

Class Schedule for July 2009

Current July 2009 Class Schedule for Kim Guzman. Registration has begun. Please be sure to note the classes you would like to take and check Crochetville once classes open as they are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. I look forward to seeing you there!

	Tunisian Lace Afghan Learn a special lace stitch pattern in Tunisian crochet to form a beautiful lacy afghan. Students are welcome and encouraged to use the same lace stitch pattern in other projects, such as a scarf or shawl, should they be interested in something other than an afghan.Class begins July 10, 2009, one week, $10 For more information, visit Crochetville Some students of prior classes placed photos of their projects on Ravelry here:
	Learn Broomstick Lace Called “jiffy lace” for a reason, you’ll quickly find that broomstick lace is a fast and fun new project! You can use the techniques learned in this class for a scarf, shawl, or throw. Don’t let broomstick lace scare you anymore! Students will learn all the tips and tricks to make their own special project whether they choose to do a scarf, shawl, or throw.Class begins July 17, 2008, one week, $10 For more information, visit Crochetville Some students of prior classes placed photos of their projects on Ravelry here:
	Learn to Make an Extra Wide Cro-Hook Scarf Cro-Hook is the Tunisian crochet technique using a double-ended hook. Students will learn up to three Tunisian crochet stitches to make a scarf as long as they like! There are no limits with this special technique! Beginning students will learn the basics of Tunisian crochet and using the double-ended hook. Advanced students will enjoy learning to use a cro-hook with a solid color project, which isn’t normally seen in cro-hook projects.Class begins July 24, 2008, one week, $10 For more information, visit Crochetville Some students of prior classes placed photos of their projects on Ravelry here:

Crochet Along: Sweetheart Ripple Afghan

Edited to add: If you are looking for this pattern, it has recently been re-released in a new book from Annie’s Attic called “Reversible Ripples”. It is available with the other afghan patterns I designed to accompany it. It can be found here.

Are you working on the Sweetheart Ripple Afghan? If so, you might want to check out the crochet-along at Crochetville for little tips and instructions I’ve left to help out with it.

And, let’s see if this works. My older son, Derek, has taken a video of me demonstrating the special stitch I created for this afghan. It is a modified front post treble crochet.

ETA: The Sweetheart Ripple is now also available in a book with the other afghan designs I made to go with it. Go to the Annie’s Attic site here to see my new book called “Reversible Ripple Afghans”.

New Design: Crochet Flower Throw

I recently discovered that another afghan I designed has been made available. This one is called Crochet Flower Throw and is on the Jo-Ann Fabric & Craft website.

The project is made in squares with a join-as-you-go technique so that there is no seaming of squares. These squares are really unique, with an interlocking loops design which looks kind of like a celtic cross to me. Enjoy!

New Designs at Caron International

Recently, I’ve seen two new designs published at the Caron site.

Motif Wrap

This wrap consists of 6 different lacy square patterns, made specifically to fit together so that they can be stitched in a join-as-you-go technique. I used Caron Simply Soft yarn. I was asked to do something “different” with the fringe. And, well, I hope I have accomplished that with a neat corkscrew fringe.

Sunset Evening Throw

This afghan/throw design is worked in Simply Soft and the newer Simply Soft Paints. I love the deep, rich colors of it.

I’m including this photo which I took of the afghan before mailing, so that you can see more of the detail of the squares.

There are lots and lots of things going on here with new projects. Deadlines like crazy. I’ll try to post a bit more on that next week.

Until then, enjoy!

New Design: Tunisian Short Row Lap Robe

The preview of the new issue of Crochet World magazine was just posted this morning and in the “In the Next Issue” section, my new afghan design has been posted!

It’s a really cool Tunisian crochet technique. I’ve never seen things done this way before, so I’m excited to see it published. What’s fun is that you don’t necessarily need an afghan hook. Any hook without a thumbrest will work. I’ve seen wooden hooks by Clover and Brittany made without a thumbrest that would work perfectly well.

And, as you will see from the description, this afghan is made in strips. But, you don’t need to worry about seaming since the strips are joined with traditional crochet!

This design is made in the new Simply Soft Eco.

Enjoy!

Looking for Tunisian Crochet?

While browsing around the internet, I discovered that I have, not one, but FOUR books on the top 20 crochet at Annie’s Attic!

Wow! I feel pretty confident that it means that a lot of you visiting my blog have ordered several of my books and I thank you!

With this new wave of my books, I wanted to be sure that you were aware of the errata available:

 Tunisian Baby Blankets
http://www.anniesattic.com/crochet/detail.html?prod_id=19654
The Tunisian Reverse Stitch in this book should actually be the stitch where you hold the hook to the back of your work and insert your hook in a side-to-side motion under the back vertical bar. During the publishing process, it was changed to the Reverse Knit Stitch which is incorrect.

 

 

 Tunisian Sampler Afghan
http://www.anniesattic.com/crochet/detail.html?prod_id=5805
When I designed this, I put a Tunisian Knit Stitch at the end of a row because Tunisian Reverse all the way across produces a ragged side edge. This was omitted during the publishing process. So, the errata for this one is “add 2 stitches to the starting chain” and do the last stitch as a Knit (although not on the graph as such).

 

 

Tunisian Around the Home
http://www.anniesattic.com/detail.html?prod_id=74025
This is my most recent book and, during pubishing the Tunisian Knit Stitch was incorrectly described throughout the book. The Knit stitch is the one where you insert your hook from front of your work to the back, going through the front and back vertical bars of the same stitch. I like the Knit Stitch and tend to use it a great deal in my designing.

 

 

 Afghan Stitch Afghans
http://www.anniesattic.com/detail.html?prod_id=6574
No errata has been reported. But, the purl stitch name was used. This isn’t the purl from the front. It’s the purl from the back. If you learned it as Tunisian Reverse Stitch, then that’s the one.

 

 

Tunisian Baby Afghans
http://www.anniesattic.com/detail.html?prod_id=5420
No errata has been reported. But, the same with this one with the purl stitch. (I think Tunisian Sampler Afghan uses the same term of purl.)

 

 

 

I have another Tunisian book with Annie’s Attic, but it’s not currently listed. I see it on eBay all the time, though. A Dozen & One Tunisian Dishcloths. There is a bit of errata on it, but nothing major as these. And, of course, some of this isn’t really errata. More of clarification.

The other book that I’ve not listed above is Afghan Variegations. This is a book made of afghans using variegated yarns. I don’t want to confuse you. This one has no Tunisian crochet at all. Regular crochet with this one.

Enjoy! And, thank you again!

After Texas

I’m having a hard time getting back into the swing of things after my Texas visit. I’m finding that there is an awful lot of work to do which directly relates to what I was doing in Texas and it’s sort of knocked my schedule out of whack. I’m sure things will get back to normal soon.

Right before I left for my trip, I was working on a design for a Tunisian crochet-along I’m sponsoring. After the poll, it was decided that we would do a tank top for the summer. I used a lovely DK weight cotton/viscose yarn called Mirage by Twisted Sisters. Who can resist a cute business name and logo like that?

Mirage is what is called a “monochrome variegate”. Rather than a traditional variegated yarn, it’s more of a tonal yarn. And, it’s really pretty. I am working on a knit design with some really clever shaping using the Mirage and I’m very pleased with it. I’m not sure how I like it with this pink top, though. I may have to make it again. The variegate decided to converge all together in one spot at the waist. I’m just not sure how I like it.

And, of course, this photo shows that I added sleeves. The crochet-along won’t have the sleeves. It was just a personal decision because I like lace.

I still need to work on the pattern, but I’m needing a bit of a break after last week. I’ve taken the time to continue knitting a design and re-group. Well, it’s been that and make some publisher contacts for new designs. I’ve done really well with that and I have 3 designs due by the end of this month. I’m very pleased because one of them is knit and I’d really like to be known as “bi-stitchual”.

I have only one knit design published right now. But, since Brianna has learned to knit in the past year, I’ve been designing things solely for her to stitch up. She tells me what she wants, I design and write it out based on her gauge and she knits. That’s been working so well that I’m starting to think that others would be appreciative of these designs as well. No need to keep them to myself, right? What’s fun is that the designs I’m doing are on an easy level. I have to design it and write it so that she can do it. So, these designs would be relatively easy, even for a beginner. I’m excited about getting to work on them.

I believe I will continue my knitting now. I don’t expect to be fully recovered and able to get back to work until Monday. Yes! I really do need a vacation after that trip to Texas! And, if that vacation is simply knitting in my favorite spot on my couch with a few good movies from Netflix, then that’s what it’s going to be.