Our February edition of the Ennea Collective magazine (www.enneacollective.com) is live! We had a lot of fun putting this edition together. It features a great selection of fun, bright projects to knit for the doldrums of winter, plus we have an article on Corriedale (one of my favorite fibers!), a great article on handspun in weaving from Sara Lamb, featuring the first of four element-inspired weavings she's working on, a great how-to on felted mittens, and lots of other creative ideas to get you thru until spring!
I've got three patterns in this edition:
My Thicket Gloves, which are a quick and easy knit in sportweight yarn, with a twisted stitch pattern across the back of the hand.
The Whirligig Hat knits up quickly in a heavy worsted/Aran-weight yarn. (My test knitter - Thanks, Marcia!!- knit hers from Montera, which is pretty spot-on for gauge). This design features simple knit and purl rows to form undulating spirals on this beret-style hat.
And finally, a perfect project to use up some scraps, my Scandal in Bohemia bag. (Sherlock Holmes fans will take note that my muse for this project was the only person to have bested Holmes, according to Watson, the infamous Irene Adler.) This bag used 4 ounces (about 225 yards) of worsted weight for the bag itself, and then used up smaller scraps for the Crazy Quilt patterned front. This project would work great with something like Cascade 220 or another felt-able 100% yarn. I used some great little brass Chinese dragons I found on Etsy, but this would be a fun project to add buttons from a button collection, or embroidery, or really any small embellishments you've got knocking around.
Please do pop over and take a look at our February issue! And, as always, we welcome comments, suggestions and submissions for future editions!
All for now......
So happy to see a new issue -- but thought you would want to know that the linky isn't correct...
Posted by: martha in mobile | February 19, 2011 at 07:58 AM
I've been cruising around Ennea and finding all sorts of treasures! The articles are so informative and the patterns very cool. I love your gloves and the bag is a great idea for bits of handspun. Great job on all of it Anne.
Posted by: margene | February 19, 2011 at 08:25 AM
Congrats on the new issue!
Posted by: Cheryl S. | February 19, 2011 at 09:34 AM
Off the check it out. Love the designs.
Posted by: Mary Lou | February 20, 2011 at 07:49 AM
Love those Thicket gloves! Thanks for the great work from all...
Posted by: Nancy | February 20, 2011 at 06:36 PM
I love all of these! Hopefully I can steal away a few minutes today to read the articles and look at the other projects (it is a work day for me).
Posted by: Toby | February 21, 2011 at 08:38 AM
Wow. Great stuff. Going to check out the new issue!
Posted by: Christina Scovel | February 22, 2011 at 08:07 AM
Beautiful stuff! Must go spend more time on this. :-)
Posted by: Laurie | February 25, 2011 at 01:17 PM