{"id":738,"date":"2013-11-16T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2013-11-16T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T22:23:00","slug":"stitches-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2013\/11\/stitches-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Stitches East"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a whirlwind few weeks, and since I got back from Stitches I have been playing catch-up.\u00a0 Looking back through the photos of the trip reminds me of how much fun it was.<\/p>\n

As usual, the students were exceptional in all of my classes.\u00a0 I keep adding content, but they continue to amaze me with how fast they catch on to everything. I was happy to see Margaret Whitehead in class. She took a class from me at Sock Summit, and it was wonderful to see her again.<\/p>\n

\"Super<\/a>
Super knitter Margaret is the FIRST student in history to complete her project Argyle sock in class. I think the foot got shortened a bit, ahem, but that is just boring plain knitting, so who could blame her?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Another person I was excited to see was Bobbie Hodges.\u00a0 Bobbie had an idea for a “bat shawl”, and we designed one together for Annetarsia Knits.\u00a0 The pattern will be in the book with a new name,\u00a0 but Bobbie and I called it Battina during development.\u00a0 Nina Raqueno, of the Rochester Knitting Guild, took our photo, both wearing our Battinas.\u00a0\u00a0 Bobbie is an amazing person, a wonderful knitter, with a generous spirit and sharp mind.\u00a0 It is an honor to showcase her work in Annetarsia Knits.\u00a0 Also, a scarf that she knit for the book will be featured in our Knitty ad for the Winter issue, so watch for that.\u00a0 Writing this book has been a long and hard journey, and Bobbie is one of the reasons I knew I couldn’t quit.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks, Bobbie, for everything.<\/p>\n

\"Battina<\/a><\/p>\n

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The market was great, as usual.\u00a0 I did some shopping for Christmas presents, so you won’t see purchases this time.\u00a0 But I want to showcase North Light Fibers<\/a>, whose yarn and project kits I fell in love with.\u00a0 When I start weaving again, NLF scarf kits will be on this girl’s wish list.<\/p>\n

\"Many<\/a>
Many tempting items, here. I fell in love with their yarns. Some Christmas shopping was done here…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Another item that caught my attention was Harrisville <\/a>yarns new potholder looms.\u00a0 Remember weaving potholders with cotton loops in the 1960’s?\u00a0 Well, these are new and improved, and although I resisted this time, I think this is a superior product.\u00a0 Not just for kids anymore, although any kid would love one.<\/p>\n

\"Beautiful,<\/a>
Beautiful, sturdy potholders – deluxe compared with what I had as a kid.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It has been a whirlwind few weeks, and since I got back from Stitches I have been playing catch-up.\u00a0 Looking back through the photos of the trip reminds me of how much fun it was. As usual, the students were exceptional in all of my classes.\u00a0 I keep adding content, but they continue to amaze […]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}