knit•er•a•cy |'nitərəsē, 'nitrə-|

It was a great weekend! I could just end the report there, but that'd be mean! ;) I will put my ramblings beneath cut tags, because I'm nice like that.

( Friday: Getting Lost, Annie Modesitt, Technique Tangent, The Exhibit Hall, Mobile Phone Madness, and Leaving Early )

( Saturday: Hitching a Ride, Yarnissima, a Long Afternoon, Teaching the Ladies to Knit for Bears, and, um, Hitching a Ride! )

The I Knit London staff are an amazing bunch of people, and they had a great staff behind this event. Everyone at I Knit London deserves gold stars, free beer, or better yet CASH! ;) for their dedication and hard work. I'm so pleased to have been a part of this weekend; I hope it'll be the first of many more to come.

( Photograph of my meagre haul )

Well, one more with a fragment of the next one. I'm really just preparing samples in shop wool at this point. I'll probably end up going with different wool for the gansey than I'd originally intended, and possibly different needles for both garments.

( Five photographs below the cut tag )

One more teddy bear jumper completed. Next up: top down yoke.

( Photographs below cut tag. )

All the teddy bear jumpers are now collected under the teddy bear tag.

In this entry, I presented photos of the first teddy bear jumper, just a plain shirt to get me used to designing and constructing in miniature. While I will teach that plain shape in the teddy bear jumper class, I wanted to add some more traditional jumpers, plus a simple top-down raglan, to illustrate different shapes and help students learn all the skills required to construct them. Below the cut tag are photos and construction notes on a traditional gansey, sized for a bear with an 11" chest. You can find a written pattern for this exact jumper (you'll have to come to class to learn how to design one for your bear and get the chart for the front and back design!) at its Ravelry project page. For comparison, you can check out the plain shirt jumper at its Ravelry project page. You'll have to be a member of Ravelry to see the complete patterns, or if you're really keen but not interested in Ravelry (and if you're a knitter, why wouldn't you be interested in Ravelry?!), I could be persuaded to email you the pattern and notes.

( Photos and construction notes beneath the cut tag. )