Guten tag, Dorothea!! Thanks for reading! Dorothea commented on my last post and had several questions. Here are my responses:
1) Where can you find the Market Squares Bag pattern?Â
This great pattern was originally featured in issue #63 of Knitters Magazine and was later put into a book containing 13 bag patterns that had all been in the magazine. There are many outlets for the book, called Bags: A Knitter’s Dozen. I’m sure you will be able to find it easily. My Market Squares Bag was knit in 5 colors of Cascade Pastaza, and then embroidered with leftover fair isle jumperweight wool:
2)Â Where can you find the felted clogs pattern?
The felted clogs are from Fiber Trends Pattern #AC-33 and should also be easy to find.Â
3)Â Do I knit the sleeves on a fair isle sweater from the armhole opening to the wrist or from the wrist up and sew them in?Â
The only fair isle sweaters I have made are designed by A. St*rmore, and I follow her instructions. She has you join the shoulders by grafting, cut the armhole steeks, pick up the sleeve sts around the armhole opening and work the sleeves from the top down:
This is a picture of Oregon in progress, showing the sleeve right after I started it. As you can see, when you knit the sleeves this way, the pattern sometimes needs to be turned upside down to be knit correctly, as I did here so the trees are going in the right direction.
I think I covered all your questions, Dorothea. Thank you for reading and commenting. Glück!! Good luck finding the patterns. 🙂
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I’ve done a couple Fair Isle sweaters and the sleeves have been worked from the top down. I think this is traditional, and it makes good sense – no seams ever. I didn’t have to turn my patterns upside down, but they were symmetrical so this wasn’t an issue. This is also a great way of insuring the proper length, and those Scots were pretty freaking clever when it came to things like knitting.
Comment by Christine — July 8, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
I *love* the colors of the felted clogs. The bag is gorgeous, but the clogs just sing to me! 🙂
Comment by Romi — July 8, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
I’m ba-a-a-a-ack. Since my sister posted today, I’ll wait to do a real post until tomorrow. See you all then.
Comment by surly — July 8, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
Thanks for sharing the pattern info for the clogs and the bag! Surely my daughter would love these as a gift! She’s 22 and quite granola but never has time to knit for herself because of college.
Steeks scare me!
Comment by Denise~ — July 8, 2007 @ 9:10 pm
Susan- I tend to use symmetrical patterns in my Fair Isles, for that very reason.
On my new one, I’m knitting from the cuff up, and doing an I-cord to attach the sleeve.
That’s the plan, anyway.
Glad Surly’s back!
Comment by Lorraine — July 8, 2007 @ 11:54 pm
Oregon is awesome!
Comment by Carol — July 9, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
Question — why the “secret” reference to “A. St*rmore”? Is it because you don’t want to come up in Google searches? Heck, I’d be darn proud if I could knit one of her designs — come one, come all! 🙂
Comment by Mary — July 10, 2007 @ 12:52 am
Hello Susan,
thank you for the very helpful tips. I will try to find the pattern where you say.
Also I will start the sleeves from the armhole. In my book they knit them and sew them with the machine in the armhole.
Thank you oncemore and I come back to your blog.
Greetings from Germany
Dorothea
Comment by Dorothea — July 10, 2007 @ 9:30 am
To use a gymnastics phrase of praise, you nailed it with the embroidery on your Market Square bag. Seeing this set off my imagination, it’s a whole new pattern of possibility to me now.
Comment by fibercrone — July 11, 2007 @ 5:31 pm
i love the embroidery on the market squares bag!
also my daughter zemeira rayne was named for my favourite aunt “Rainey” (for loraine)
Comment by heatherly — July 13, 2007 @ 6:53 pm