Knitting Daily Videos

French Girl Knits: A Closer Look

JaimeG — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:18:54 GMT

Kristeen Griffin-Grimes, known in the knit and crochet community for her pattern company, French Girl, utilizes inventive combinations of texture, color, and stitch patterns in her fashion-forward, seamless design work featured in her new book, French Girl Knits.

In this video she talks about the inspiration for the book and shares with readers photos of her travels to France.

About the Book

French Girl Knits includes:

Classy, feminine designs fashioned in luxurious yarns that achieve suberb figure-flattering fit with seamless construction-the need for sewing has been eliminated with Kristeen's one-piece designs.
Four thematic vignettes inspired by French daily life, film, and history: Enfant Sauvage (Wild Child), la Boutique Parisienne (A Vintage Dress Shop in Paris), Dans La Rue (Street Wear), and Creatrice (Creative Woman).
A design workshop featuring in-depth tutorials that teach seamless construction methods featured in French Girl Knits, providing valuable technical information for both beginning and seasoned knitters. You"ll learn how to design in a more organic way, either from the top down, from the hem up, from the back out, and by picking up live stitches when possible.

All of the designs featured in French Girl Knits are body conscious and figure flattering. Many designs include curve-friendly waist shaping, empire-waist detailing, and stitch details that emphasize the feminine form. Inspired by historical costume, Kristeen uses unique detailing such as lacing, openwork, lace edgings, and bell sleeves to further highlight the woman's silhouette.

French Girl Knits invites you to be immersed in a world filled with imagination and creativity, using knitting as a vehicle for self-express and encouraging experimentation through your medium.

Purchase this book in your local yarn shop or online at: FrenchGirlKnitsBook.com

Elements of Style: Knit + Crochet Jewelry with Wire, Fiber, Felt + Beads

JaimeG — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:11:02 GMT

Photo slideshow of jewelry projects in Elements of Style: Knit + Crochet Jewelry with Wire, Fiber, Felt + Beads by Rosemary Hill. These are gorgeous wearable pieces of art combining beading, crocheting, knitting, felting, and wireworking techniques.

Photo Shoot: Knits in Philadelphia, Winter 2008 issue

Rebecca — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:35:19 GMT

Purchase the Interweave Knits Winter 2008 issue online at:
http://www.interweavestore.com/store/p/2266-Interweave-Knits-Winter-2008.aspx

This video is a behind-the-scenes on the Interweave Knits Winter 2008 shoot - check out how we captured some of the shots you’ll see in the magazine.

The cast of characters:

There’s Beth, the stylist, who pulls together outfits for each knit and stands by during shooting to keep things tucked in or hanging right, as the case may be. Beth takes my ideas on outfits for each piece and overall aesthetic for each story, and assembles textures and colors that showcase the knits and set a mood.
Katie, the makeup artist, provides a little finishing polish. We like a very natural, fresh look, but a little bit here and there can go a long way towards making the camera see the world as vibrantly as we do.
The photographer’s assistant, Nelson (you may have seen him modeling mittens in our Fall issue, too!), works some kind of magic by which he simultaneously moves equipment, holds reflectors, tests light rigs, does a thousand other things, and still keeps all of us loose and laughing.
Kate and Crystal, our lovely models, are infinitely patient and very good-humored about the strange spotlight we put them in. Kate’s a painter, and Crystal owns a music shop on Philadelphia’s South Street – they’re everyday people we know from real life, very down to earth, and they’re secretly (I think) amused by the whole thing.
Lisa, Senior Editor on Knits and Editor of knitscene, keeps everything moving. She manages the shot list, makes sure people are getting dressed or undressed on schedule, handles all the logistics of model releases and so forth, and keeps us on time.
Amanda, our photographer, and I are practically one person during the twenty hours of shooting that go into each issue. We start with the overall look and feel for each story, and eventually work our way down to specifics like the lighting, the spots for each shot, props, poses, and actions. We work together to make sure each shot showcases the interesting knitting stuff, but is visually compelling as well – we’re rarely more than a couple feet apart while we’re shooting, and while we sometimes play tug-of-war, we push each other and work hard to capture a picture of the knitting life - a look, a feel, a mood, that we think you, the readers, will be drawn into.

Enjoy!

--Eunny Jang, editor

Go Footloose with Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarns

Rebecca — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:31:07 GMT

Enjoy this video of the crazy dancing socks from Carol Sulcoski's book, Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarns. These are handpainted socks as you've never seen them before! We hope you enjoy this video as much as we enjoyed making it!

Purchase Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarns (Interweave, $19.95) by Carol Sulcoski at your LYS or online at:
http://www.interweavestore.com/store/p/2274-Knitting-Socks-with-Handpainted-Yarn.aspx

Here is what Sandi Wiseheart said about the book:

About The Stars of Our Show!

The stars of this movie are no ordinary socks, you understand. These are 21 pairs of handknit socks, each pair knit from handpainted yarns. These socks are new, never-before-seen sock designs, from nineteen designers like Veronik Avery, Lorna Miser, Chrissy Gardiner, Ann Budd, Nancy Bush, Patricia Gibson-Roberts, Charlene Schurch...you know. All the Sock Greats.

Where can you find these beautiful sock patterns? In Knitting Socks With Handpainted Yarn, by Carol Sulcoski. Not only are there patterns, there is also a ton of great information from Carol about how to make best use of all those gorgeous handpainted yarns we all drool over in the shops. She tells us what to look for in a yarn, and how to make sure you get pretty results and not weird results like pooling or strange stripes--in any kind of project, not just in knitted socks!

Check your local yarn shop to see if they have a copy you can get your hands on right away, or order a copy online from us.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Handpainted sock yarns have captured the hearts of countless knitters. Colorful sock yarns are little gems of the knitting universe, providing hours of knitting bliss that result in a luxurious hand-crafted item. Author Carol Sulcoski, owner of Black Bunny Fibers, a popular indie fiber sock yarn source, delves into the mystery of the handpainted sock yarn and divulges its secrets, explains how to make the best of these much-loved yarns, and shows how to knit with success with 20 new patterns designed just with these yarns in mind.

Knitters struggle with handpainted yarns. How do you design projects with them versus other types of yarns? How do you avoid the pitfalls of pooling and splotching? How do you combine multicolored handpaints with other types of yarns? Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn is designed to provide sock knitters with technical guidance so these wonderful yarns can be used to their best advantage, explaining the differences between various kinds of handpainted yarn and showing how to avoid undesirable effects. Combining her handdyeing and knitwear designing knowledge, Carol shares techniques and tips to help every sock knitter turn out fabulous footwear. Fun, original sock patterns from a variety of contributors illustrate these techniques. The patterns will be written for widely-available handdyed yarns so that readers can get the same results, but readers will also learn to identify patterns for their unique yarns.

Purchase Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarns (Interweave, $19.95) by Carol Sulcoski at your LYS or online at:
http://www.interweavestore.com/store/p/2274-Knitting-Socks-with-Handpainted-Yarn.aspx

Hi-res version: Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarns - Go Footloose!

Rebecca — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:29:31 GMT

Managing Colorwork - KDTV 203

Rebecca — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:22:15 GMT

In this clip from Knitting Daily TV Episode 203, Eunny answers a question on how to manage your yarns when knitting Fair Isle or intarsia, including how to avoid those messy tangles! The yarns used in this segment are from Blue Sky Alpacas, http://www.blueskyalpacas.com

ABOUT THE SHOW

Knitting Daily TV is the newest needle crafts how-to program on public television covering everything from knitting and crochet to stitching, felting, and spinning. The show guides viewers in learning to make fun yet smart one-of-a-kind designs using the latest products in yarn and fiber. Download free patterns, meet trendsetting knit and crochet designers, and improve or learn new skills and techniques.

Purchase DVDs of previous seasons online at:
http://www.interweavestore.com/Knitting/Video.html?a=KDTV-com

To find the PBS station nearest you airing the program, visit this page: http://www.knittingdaily.com/blogs/kdtv_series_200/content/KDTVSchedule.aspx
(You can enter your zip code or click "view all schedules/get listings" to see all the cities that air the show and when).

Knitting Daily TV is airing on more than 340 PBS stations and new markets are being added to the schedule all the time. Each individual public television station chooses when and if to air the program. If it is not airing in your local market, please call, write, or email and let them that know you are a viewer of the station and would like to see Knitting Daily TV. You can help bring Knitting Daily TV to your local PBS Station. Thank you!

Learn How to Curve a Cable - KDTV 106

Rebecca — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:12:43 GMT

Eunny Jang demonstrates some ways to make cables curve and slant in this clip from Knitting Daily TV Episode 106. The Fiesta Yarns shown in this segment can be found online at www.fiestayarns.com

ABOUT THE SHOW

Purchase DVDs of previous seasons online at:
http://www.interweavestore.com/Knitting/Video.html?a=KDTV-com

Knitting Daily Visits Knit-Out & Crochet 2009

Rebecca — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:59:31 GMT

If you like this video you might want to read Sandi Wiseheart's blog post about Knit-Out & Crochet 2009, "We Take Over Mall of America": http://www.knittingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2009/02/18/ke090218.aspx

View our photo gallery from the event here:
http://www.knittingdaily.com/blogs/daily/pages/knit-out-and-crochet-2009-photos.aspx

Making of the Cover - Interweave Knits Summer 2009

Rebecca — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:47:44 GMT

Purchase this issue at your local yarn shop or online at:
http://www.interweavestore.com/store/p/3007-Interweave-Knits-Summer-2009.aspx

Background on the video, in Eunny's words:

"Last winter, we took you behind the scenes of a Knits photo shoot – there’s a lot of time and care in the images you end up seeing in the magazine. The cover gets some extra-special attention: shooting a cover can best be described as a kind of hopeful alchemy, combining newsstand guidelines and standards with the delicate art of capturing a compelling image. In the end, we want an image that catches the eye and has wide appeal, but also represents what you’ll find between the covers.

For the Summer 2009 issue of Interweave Knits, our final cover choice was Linda’s Wrap Vest by designer Mari Lynn Patrick. We loved the flattering, drapey versatility of the garment as well as its intriguing construction and use of simple ribbed fabrics. Above all, we loved how truly seasonal, how summery, the final image feels—we shot it during the golden hour of a late February afternoon, and the final look is casual, breezy, and bathed in sunlight. An enticing vision for warm weather knitting.

Take a look at the video for the full story. And if you haven't done so already, check out the Summer 2009 Interweave Knits and discover knits that fit your summer knitting style."

-- Eunny Jang
Editor, Interweave Knits