Monday, February 05, 2007

pre-release enabling!

You might have heard me mention something about No Sheep for You, the book I wrote for Interweave Press about knitting fabulous things without wool. :-)

[It should be in the Interweave warehouse Feb 15...and they'll ship as soon as they have stock, so if you're waiting on a pre-order, you don't have much longer to wait!]

But Elann has made it impossible for me to wait so patiently...and maybe some of you? Here's why:
Tomorrow [Tuesday] at noon EST, they're releasing Queensland Cotolino - a lovely cotton/linen blend. You can get a peek at the colors here. And this specific yarn happens to be just what we spec'd for this gorgeous cabled cardigan.

I know it's a bit of a leap to order yarn without seeing the pattern in full, but I can give you some specs. The stuff is HALF OFF at Elann. I figured if you'd wanted to knit this, you'd kill me if I didn't tell you when it was available so SUPERcheap, so here you go. :-)

Specs for Cables and O's:

Finished bust measurement [inches]/Skeins required
31.5 / 9
36 / 11
40.5 / 13
45 / 15
49.5 / 16
54 / 18

The color in the pic is #17. P.S. Leave some for me, will ya?

p.s. all pictures © and courtesy Interweave Press

Comments:
I love you and hate you all at the same time for this. Bring some o' them cupcakes on Wednesday however and all will be forgiven.
 
gahhh. like I needed another sweater to make...
 
that is an oh so lovely cardigan...and the yarn...aghhhhh
 
That's such a lovely cardigan! I'm very tempted, and also interested in what a cotton/linen blend is like. But I shall resist!
 
I just went and bought all the stuff to make banana bread pudding, dam cupcakes.

going off to bake pudding.mmmmmmmm


and chicken fried rice.mmmmmmmm
 
Oh and did you know that you can google recipes?

Amazing.

You just put in name (banana bread pudding) and you get free recipes.

amazing
 
Hi amy - just wondering why you don't do wool. IF you have explained it previously could you link it in your next post?
 
Yeah, what Laura said... Beautiful sweater, and great yarn, but DID YA HAVE TO TELL ME IT'S ON SALE?!

-Kathy in San Jose
 
I had planned on that yarn for a different sweater. Now you have me thinking I need even MORE of it...
 
Fabulous sweater! I can't wait to see the book!
 
Amy,
love that cardigan. Good work advertising the yarn 'cause it's pretty much gone! :) Guess we'll have to substitute?
I cannot WAIT to see the book. (I'm the one that created the Berthe Collar, named by you!!)
Thank you thank you for everything, for writing the book and taking a chance with me and for promoting the book the way you do and...thank you.
 
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