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Fiber Find of the Week and the Civil War Shawl, KAL

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While perusing the various blogs that I subscribe to I came across a photo of some beautiful yarn the author had just received in the mail. It took a little enlarging of the photo on my part, but I finally figured out what label the yarn was and visited their website. The yarn is called Tess and the colors are beautiful!

Tess Yarns

Since I already have two Secret of the Stoles in the works I am thinking of ordering some of this beautiful stuff for the Civil War Shawl that is in my queue. I hope to start this shawl at the beginning of the year 2008. I have just recently taken ownership of the Yahoo Group – Civil War Shawl KAL where I will be starting the KAL up again at that time. If you would like to join me in making this beautiful shawl next year feel free to join the group and knit along with me.

The pattern is available here or alternately it was printed in Cast On Magazine, Winter/Spring 2001. I purchased the magazine for my pattern and I think I got it on eBay. There are no charts for this pattern. However, since I like to knit from charts, I am considering charting it for my own sanity.

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Tomorrow will be one week since I started the Secret of the Stole KAL and I am so excited that we already have 500+ members. That means that if even half of those participating right now complete this stole there will be 250 beautiful stoles out there somewhere that I had a part in creating. Man, what a trip.

My friends call me an enabler and Websters defines the term:

a. To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity; make able

I think I have to admit it and confess that I have found my calling. If you haven’t signed up yet, what are you waiting for????

Boy I can’t wait for October 5th!

Revealing the Secret of the Stole

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The general info and swatch chart have been completed and uploaded to the Secret of the Stole KAL site. It was a lot of work actually putting down everything I could think of to help the members get started on this lovely stole without mentioning the theme or giving away the secret.

If you haven’t joined the group yet, we would love to have you.

Discover the Secret of the Stole

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Late last night we put the finishing touches on the buttons for the new KAL, Secret of the Stole. Please feel free to grab one and enable your blog readers to discover the Secret of the Stole for themselves.

Secret of the Stole 100 x 60

Secret of the Stole 100 x 95

Secret of the Stole 150 x 142

Secret of the Stole 300 x 287

Secret of the Stole 468 x 60

Secret of the Stole

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Well, I think I have finally done it. I have figuratively gone off the deep end of the boat. Just when I was clocking along at a pretty good clip on my current lace (and other) projects a theme for a stole hit me like a brick. I began feverishly designing and charting this stole pattern and the theme just flowed onto the graph. So, one thing led to another last night and around midnight central time I realized that this would be a great KAL stole.

Since the Mystery Stole #3 is winding down I realized there needed to be a little time for a breather, but this stole would be a great one to be worn on New Year’s Eve. With those things in mind we should be able to begin on time and complete the stole in time for those NYE parties. So, without further ado, I present to you:

Secret of the Stole
First Clue – October 5, 2007

I have created a Yahoo group by the same name if you would like to join. For those of you on Ravelry, I created a group there by the same name as well but will be distributing the clues hints only on the Yahoo group. Button coming soon…

UPDATE: To view more information about the Secret of the Stole I and the new Secret of the Stole II, please go to the new Secret of the Stole site http://www.knitwith.us/kal/secret-of-the-stole and you can now purchase the finished pattern in full from that site at http://www.knitwith.us/patterns/ or you can purchase the pattern directly from here as a digital download in .pdf for $7.00.

We started this new knitting site KnitWith.Us to provide a single location for the most up to date information, enjoy.

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