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SAT 24 SEPT 2016

I see that right now there are queues of people waiting to buy the new iPhone, and every time there is an iPad upgrade it makes headline news. I have a very geriatric iPad but still love it for its ease of navigating iBooks. You can dip in and out of a book, jump ahead, go back to where you just were or read something in depth. I also love the way that it links to my computer and phone so everything stays, quite literally, on the same page. It just makes life so lovely and simple.

Our new book, Reversible Knitting Stitches, was designed for the iBookstore and looks great loaded up as you can see from the photo above. You can zip around from page to page, flick through the stitch thumbnails and make notes as you go. Zoom in to see details, click on the menu button at the top to go to the abbreviations list, search for something you remembered from yesterday etc. Super easy. ...

New e-Book: Reversible Knitting Stitches

www.wyndlestrawdesigns.com - Reversible Knitting Stitches e-book

I am pleased to announce that our new e-book, Reversible Knitting Stitches, has now been published!

This is an innovative book with 200 double-sided knitting stitch patterns in 12 separate chapters. Each pattern includes notes about the stitch and suggestions for its use as well as a large sample showing both the front and the back of the stitch.

Stitch charts and full line-by-line instructions are included so you can follow whichever you prefer to work the patterns.

In addition, the book contains examples of more than 50 projects showing the stitches in use. These include clothing, accessories and items for the home with website links so you can find further information should you wish to purchase the separate patterns.

Please click here to read more about this new book and the different formats available.

Reversible Knitting Stitches - A Sourcebook of 200 Double-Sided Stitch Patterns,
by Moira Ravenscroft & Anna Ravenscroft, Pub: Wyndlestraw Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-944921-07-1

Blogpost - A different kind of Stitch Book

WEDS 14 SEPT 2016

I love books of knitting stitches. I have quite a number of them now and regularly look through them all. The first one I bought was when we were living in Japan a few years ago and it's still one of my favourites. I love the large photos, the clear stitch charts and extra project photos scattered throughout the book - totally inspiring jackets, cardigans and sweaters.

So when Anna and I decided to publish a book about Reversible Knitting Stitches, that's what we planned too: not just to list the stitches but to really explore each of them and add a good number of project photos to show how the stitches can be used. In short, we wanted this to be a Sourcebook about reversible knitting. ...

Blogpost - And then there were lots!

WEDS 07 SEPT 2016

In my last blogpost I reported how my knitter-daughter Anna and I had decided to take our fascination with reversible knitting to the stage of writing an e-book. So having decided to do this, we then set to in earnest. Since Anna lives in England and I spend most of my time in the States, this was an interesting exercise!

By the next time we got together there were hundreds of knitting samples filling boxes and overflowing into cupboards and onto shelves. Then we started the fun part: trying to reduce them down to our favourite 200 reversible samples. ...

Coming this month - A new e-book!
Blogpost: A hint of what's to come...

THURS 1 SEPT 2016

Some years ago, I was convalescing in bed after a series of operations. Of course, being a knitter, I didn't see that having to be immobile meant I couldn't knit, or at least peruse magazines looking for knitting patterns and ideas.

So I started re-reading old magazine clippings I had been hoarding for ages. I went through looking for interesting stitch patterns and glueing them onto pages to put in a box file. By the time I was done, I had three files full of stitch patterns, notes and patterns.

I started experimenting and making up some new stitches and adding extra ones I came across, and that's when I noticed something: I loved the ones that were reversible. ...