Comments on: Starting is the Easy Part

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:45:30 +0000

I L O V E the Bouton d’Or patterns! I’ve knit a few things from their children’s patterns, but every one has had some sort of errors.
Some are HUGE errors, like if you knit to the stated gauge in the pattern you won’t get the finished measurements shown. (This is easy enough to check with some math, but really you shouldn’t have to! That’s what testers and editors are for!).
Others were mis-labeling of charts or missing charts. Sometimes the pattern parts were just out of order, shoulder instructions before neck. I’m sure there were other problems, but they aren’t coming to mind right now.
I love their patterns so much that I continue to go back to them, but I always super duper double triple check the patterns before and as I knit them.
Just wanted to give you a heads up… especially with your short time frame!

By: Oiyi

Oiyi — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:47:19 +0000

That pattern book looks adorable!! Is it in English or French? Your dress is going to be cute!

By: Glenna

Glenna — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:09:34 +0000

Ooh, I’ve been wanting to do something with Patons Grace for a while and still haven’t. I hope yours goes well.
PS – Love the new blog redesign, and I think your 2007 FO list is spectacular considering one of those items is St. Brigid! 😀

By: nova

nova — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:20:15 +0000

Oh, that is going to be so cute. You should be able to finish it in time (I mean you did knit St. Brigid in less time than it would have taken me to read the pattern…). It’s going to be a sweet gift, and yay for stashbusting!

By: Cambria

Cambria — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:42:37 +0000

Dear Savannachik,
Oh, how I love that pattern and bless the day I stumbled upon them! They are brilliant, quick and fun and just the thing on most winter days.
I have a pair that I’ve been wearing for 3+ years now, both in the winter when I go outside and in my office when they crank up the AC. I used the pattern twice this year alone for friends. Once for a pair of wristers for a teenage boy in a band (i left the cables off for that pair) and again for a friends girlfriend, only for hers I converted them into gloves. Both wearers love them endlessly and think that I’m some sort of knitting genius. And for this, I say “THANK YOU” for the free pattern that gets so much attention everywhere I go.
ps- i would love to email you the finished photos.

By: Karma

Karma — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:07:01 +0000

What a sweet little gift! That should be fun to knit and I know you’ll be able to whip it out in no time.
Happy New Year!