Jo Sharp Magazines

Get them while they are hot!

While away, I went to a newsagent at South West Rocks, New South Wales and picked up two Jo Sharp Contempory Knitting Magazines/Books for $14.95, instead of the usual $14.95 or more each.

1. Contempory Knitting - 32 knitting patterns, small projects & easy knits.

2. Contempory Knitting by Jo Sharp - 34 knitting patterns, Wrap yourself in fabulous knits, Summer and winter patterns, Easy knitting you'll love to wear.

They are published by Universal Magazines.

Some of the Jo Sharp patterns are available at her website which is http://www.josharp.com/, provided you join membership.

Jo Sharp books are also available on Amazon.

Be aware also, there are corrections to some of these patterns here.

The photography in these books is delicious.

An Emerald Island Scarf

Finished!

This scarf pattern is from Page 78 of the Annual 2007 Creative Knitting Magazine (Australia) (which I purchased ex-library...). It is not called this, it is called something else which relates to the yarn used in the pattern.

I've knitted as per pattern and added two rows of garter before recommencing pattern. Does this make it my pattern? Not publishing pattern, only my photo of said scarf.

The cast on end was very nice and wavy as a result of the pattern and the cast off edge rather dull and straight. I guess that this scarf can only be worn with proper winding around the neck, starting at the cast off edge. Knitted in Lincraft's Cosy yarn (colour Moss Green) which I picked up sometime last year as "water damaged" for $2, on 8mm needles. I think it was supposed to be 8 ply wool, but it seemed thinner. Like 5 ply, but very soft and scrunchy, the colour is lovely and it feels delicious.

I took the photo on a green towel on my bed. I'm a knitter, not a photographer.

Blogging has inspired me to finish some of my UFO's (Unfinished Objects) so I can:
(a) give them to their intended recipients
(b) have a personal record of them
(c) get them out of my mounting pile of knitting paraphernalia
(d) relieve me of the guilt of having promised something and then not completing.
(e) all of the above.

And so I am off to complete my son's kindergarten teacher's scarf, which I had knitted and had cast off. It was a little short, so with the third ball, I am cutting the frindge, attaching to the cast on edge, counting how many I need for the cast off edge, pulling out the cast off, reattaching the third ball and knitting until I am finished.

I also watched "P.S.I Love You" which inspired the name. Ireland looks beautiful.

Australian Knitting Magazines

Having borrowed from the library, I am currently subscribing to:

Australian Knitting Magazine

and also

Creative Knitting Magazine

Check out your local library and see if they stock the magazines or can purchase them for your library. Now is a great time to do that ... their budgets just reopened!!

I also love checking out what books my local library has and borrowing them before possibly purchasing them.