hi i'm sherri so koski welcome to net on today i wanted to show you something that i found at peter's township library as you know if needed for a long time i tend to not buy every book that comes out just because i've been there for so long and you know i have quite a library that is so i'm kind of choosy about the books that i purchased but i happen to be at the library and i came across one that's relatively new and i checked it out and it's got some of the greatest projects and they're very much to my liking and some really different things as well so i wanted to present to you today and recommend that you check it out at a bookstore or library or yarn shop near you see if it might be some projects that you might like to have on your knitting bookshelf to keep for your future projects and for your inspiration it is knitting outside the lines and it is put out by mason dixon  and i believe this started as a friendship who happen to not live terribly close to each other and they started blogging and they're very funny and the book is written very much in their own style with a lot maher and very much as though it were a conversation with you in that or a couple places they sort of address in there and say oh you know this to be true or you know that this is funny about you nurse and that sort of thing so i think it makes the book very fun as well as they have i think a really unique design perspective and some of their projects i find to be uniquely classic and we'll get to those the first one that i'm going to show you use those that you on that i happen to have on hand it's a cardigan very different than we might think of a normal cardigan being and the reason that it is so different there's another picture of it and you can see it's this beautiful sort of silver gray in the picture the reason that it is so different is because of the fiber that is used and that is a well when yarn called kids k s and it's been around for quite some time i know monet has used it a couple of times in her knitting this will actually be the first time i think that i personally have used it but i've known other people to use it and you know it's somewhat addicting as all knitting is but this family who are in particular is somewhat addicting because of that beautiful effect that you get i'm going to put that up across my finger and let you see how fine that fiber is i've got it in this really beautiful magenta i ordered it from a friend of mine who isn't me and she has a lovely tea shop there but she also stalks w you know such a great combination a tea shop that has yarn so you can see how fine that is on my hand and part of the beauty of it is the halo that you get from the  is in there there and any time that we use a mohair or an anger or a we get that sort of halo and that really is the unique quality that is needed in order to get this really great effect on this cord again let me show you a couple of the features on that as well but i think make it really a very nimble and wearable project it times in the front so i think it's got a lot of design feature to it in that you know you can really kind of make it your own you can tie it a little tighter a little looser what have you it's got a great deal of forgive ability to it because it is so light and so airy with the way that it is needed in fact for this sample they needed that on a size eight so you can see with that fiber being so extremely fine and putting that on a side of a needle it's going to be very very airy i mean either photograph i think you can see it a little better the other thing with they've done is the design feature that i think is really really brilliant is that they've done this little bit of cable laying that runs up the back and down each sleeved as well as around the front borders on that chord again and what that's going to do because that fabric is so lightly knit and just a theory though is that those cables are going to take more fiber and be denser so you get that really neat sort of shadowing effect on that cord again another design feature that's really attractive is that there increases have been yarn over so you get that spacing on that project as well so it sort of gives you the beginning and the yang there the denser places where the cables are as well as the very even more open spaces where the yarn over is have been and they're getting such a fabulous close up of that project for me and you're going to really be able to see exactly what i'm talking about now as as an example of the sort of you more that they if you know they say you know we've met for you to wear this over something but you know do whatever you want once you've made it yourself you know the choice is up to you so that just those sort of silly things that we normally would say to each other in person they have chosen to include in the book and i think it really makes it very personal for you than it are to sort of you know be clued in to bear sense of you know more about things another project that i really loved and i thought this was probably worth the price of a book just for this pattern a lot of this is just too adorable or can stand it is this baby hat and it's very really unique project i'll let you take a look at it before we talk about the features of it they picked a great model for the hat but you can see it has that little bit of a point down on to the forehead and it also has knitted into it without being a separate piece the little bit the comes down over the ears as well which is really great especially on a baby hat if we can show this graphic just a little bit over here next to that photograph you'll see of the way knit it is really unique and lends itself to those features those points what happens is that this is your cast on the edge here at the bottom or my finger is and unit going up creating those points and of course the direction sure you exactly how to do that and some of those points are bigger than others and then what ends up happening is that you fold this in a specific way and it becomes the point on the head and the points are the ears as well as the shaping at the top of the head so that you then have that rounded shape at the top of the baby's head monet did the newborn way you'll be able to see this seeming on this is where those points are brought together on the top and that creates the top of the hat i just thought that was really unique as opposed to knitting something in the round and decreasing it at the top to get that rounded shape on the top of the baby's head i just really love that that that sort of little bit of we're gone be at the top to to make that fit the baby's head as i said this is in a sack yarn obviously if you did this in a heavier garden i think you could adapt this you know to make it a larger and larger size and you know adapting you know yarn and needle size to make this larger and still using those those directions i think you could really customize this to the size that you needed for whatever child and could play with that a little bit as well as just taking it straight from the book and doing the two sizes that they have presented in the book a couple of projects that are in here that i found very interesting and really different from some of the other things that you might be seeing in the marketplace is i thought this was really a beautiful coat that they presented here and if you can see it has a technique that we've actually here on the show and that is the chain stitch and they're getting such a great shot of that you can see but those are letters that they have chain stitched and they are and what they have done is taken some of their favorite quotations i'm sorry i flipped the wrong way some of their favorite quotations and put those on to the sweater i believe one of them is be the change that you want to see some really philosophical quotations that they have included but they encourage you to go ahead and take whatever quotations you might be interested in using and being the elizabeth  am i thought that if i net this and i didn't intend to i'm not sure how far down on the to this bet is that this point but i thought that i might like to take some really great elizabeth quotations and do those on my sweater so  that's one of the ones that's on my to do to list as well as this kid still case closed again that we've looked at this is a matter of really great classic coach they had designed i can't imagine anybody that wouldn't want this code i think it's just incredibly beautiful as well as the one that monet and i actually are both intending to do and i think that is really the mark of a great pattern you know sort of the ageless quality you know that appeals to so many different people i mean obviously i'm old enough to be known as mother because i am her mother but this is a pattern that appeals to both of us and we're both intending to do it it has a great classic yarn a great classic stitch very wearable but then they chose a really great color to do it in and they chose a yarn that has a great deal of color choices so that you can customize that to be appropriate for your wardrobe great detail going in the back great finishing detailing really really wonderful things that they include in that projects this little person i think is really great in that leaf pattern so this is a book that i think would be a great addition to your bookshelf it's definitely going to be an addition to my bookshelf i've asked for this as a gift  for mother's day and hopefully somebody in my house will take kibera with that here or they have sort of just story telling really entertaining you know about the colors that they like to wear apparently one of them is very much into neutrals and her color wheel is basically shades of gray and bays and you know so as you read about of course you're you know i don't know anybody that wouldn't find that you maurice this is one of their patterns for their every day sweater which i found really interesting in that they've really mapped that out in charts the different sizes that you can do and maybe that is easy to use as they could so that you could go ahead and customize that sweater and make it work for whatever size that you were doing it and make following those directions as easily as they could i thought that was a really great idea to put for each row that you were doing what exactly you would be doing on that each one of those letters within that graph then correspond to whether you're going to be doing a cable rather you're going to be doing shaping what you would be doing exactly on each of those rows depending on the size that you might be making they have a fabulous pair of think with that little bit of us but still really really beautiful great graphics on and of their projects which of course you're going to need and there again another page where they're just being very humorous about their own personal evolution through the decades with fashion and i think any of us can relate to that you know any of us definitely that lived through the eighty's can can sympathize with some of the really poor choices that we six hundred twenty six thousand investors that's how many people s i p c has helped since nine hundred seventy over fifteen billion dollars that's how much as i p c has made it possible for investors to recover s  c that's a securities investor protection corporation and investors first line of defense in the unlikely event that a brokerage fault failed s i p c for real people like me and you our communities i world a better place welcome back there was one more thing that i wanted to show you from the mason dixon book and then we'll move on to an entirely different project but we've done a fair isle knitting here on this several times and that's where you use more than one yarn word and create shapes and designs and they've taken as they say completely outside the lines and a blanket and you can see how gorgeous that turns out so they have actually knitted that in the round and then cut it apart which we call a streak and then knitted on the border to finish off the edge so you can see how about border encloses that cut edge but they talk all about doing the stakes they have a couple of fair isle patterns i like to poke at one in particular especially with that beautiful baby where on that blanket they talk about the stakes and going through that process and i think that's a unique take on a fair isle most of us don't think of doing a blanket because that is such a big project but they talk about that process in the book and that's something that you might be interested if you either check out the book from peter's library or get it for yourself or your library which i highly recommend and we're going to move on now to a project that i've talked about on the show a little bit and that's the february lady sweater that sort of swept over all these websites and blogs and sites that we've all gotten used to using now and everybody's been doing it on a and i happened to do our own version i have mine here on the show today and as you might know that's a really great tribute to elizabeth zimmerman who wrote knitters allman the act and the original version of that sweater is a baby sweater that was featured actually the photographs of the baby sweater in this book are really really tiny so it's sort of funny to me that from that baby sweater you know it's taken on this life of its own with this adult size sweater but in her act february is  making baby things and the sweater from an ensemble was this little round cardigan with some lengths patterning to it and she gave her directions and if any of you have ever used her directions before you know she's they are what she calls you know she tells you to go buy your own gauge and sort of figure things out on your own here's a basic guideline but you know you know you know how to do math you can figure this out is sort of her way of speaking to you so from a designer called pamela when created adult size pattern for that sweater she thought it was such a great design that she thought as an adult she would like to have it for herself she made it available it's a free downloadable pattern right now and i did that and then we knitted the sweater for ourselves minus this cool color and we'll talk about that yarn but i'll hold that up for you and a couple of the features on this make yolk which is worked all in one piece in which i did my increases in the body in the yolk with you are no verse you can also do those with make wands which the original pattern called for and that's what you choose to put on your and available for this and suitable for this really make it easily something that you can personalize for yourself as well this is shawn in worsted which is from nitpicks it's mostly cotton blend i really loved working with it i didn't have any problems working with it it wasn't something that split or or did any of those things that we find not enjoyable in a fiber i would highly recommend it and that's a website that we've used here on the show over and over and over again one of the most popular yarns to use for this if you get on to the knitting blogs a lot of people are using cascade to twenty  some other yarn that we've done here on the show a number of times and that happens to be one that's available over a bloomin yarns you can see michelle and her stuff over there for that as well as a lot of other great worsted weight you know are and that she might have available for you or you might have in your stash as well so when you put this pattern up on the internet and see the requirements for the size that you would wear then you would know that you have something in your stash that might work or whether you want to go shopping mor or in what way you want to proceed in order to make this but i highly recommend it it's a great pattern to work with i enjoyed it very much as did monet another part of the pattern that makes it really enjoyable to work with is the lace pattern that is used and it's one of those great simple lace patterns that you can easily memorize and really read fairly easily and when i say read i think when you look at stitches and are able to tell exactly where you are and exactly what you need to do next you are reading stitches and some patterns aren't quite as easily read so i've set up a couple of samples here this is a lace pattern that elizabeth called sort of the top of a triangle shaped sort of v is the better way i guess of putting that it lays much better if you have some garter stitch around it so i've set this up so that it's one repeat surrounded by a garter stitch the first row of this is going to be i'm going to turn a little bit so we can get my hands just a little bit easier on this camera so we're going to set this up so that we have or garter stitch border so  and like i said this is a really great seven stitch for row repeats and it's something that you can easily very easily figure out for yourself and memorize this is going to be and then what we're doing is actually a mirror imaging that previous yarn over and two together we're going to yarn over and then do an s s k which is a slip slip and then knit so that those lean to the left so there's your seven stitches that we've used to knit two together yarn over is really nice because it sort of gives you that little bit of a mental break or a little bit of a recess where you don't really have to think too much you're just really doing what is there from the from the previous so on your wrong side is a pearl if you're knitting this in the round as you would on the sleeves of the sweater they have you set it up so that your knitting in the round you're obviously just going to knit those stitches so that you're basically having a stockinette effect to the there's not going to be any garter stitch in the legs ok so we're back across the wrong side and we'll show you the second set of yarn overs are going to make that come to a point so we do our garter stitch which is three how in that little sample that center stitch sort of gives you an orientation so that you know where you are that is always going to be your center and your stitches or your brother your decrease stitches are going to be going away from that center or stitch that is always needed so our s s k is going to be on the left hand side of that are knit two together are always going to be on the right side out so we did our then our net won and then our net three for our border now obviously i've done one repeat here you can make as many repeat it's as you need to on the body of the sweater obviously really simple to do lace pattern i think this is a really great lace pattern to use on a lot of different projects obviously the baby and the adult sweater there are a couple of places now where people have designed baby had to go with the baby sweaters that they have done and they've put those up we've talked about ravelry here on the show i believe that's where i saw the baby hat that has this same pattern to it but you really could use this lace pattern any time that you need something fairly simple one fairly quick to work with it's easily memorized seven stitches by four rows and two of those rows are just plain knitting so obviously really only two pattern rows within that so it's something that you could sort of figure out your gauge and add in the borders and go ahead and set yourself up so that you could be making a baby blanket or even a larger throw if you wanted to use a really large a yarn and needles i think setting yourself up with that and making a throw for your couch or the end of your bed would be really attractive as well and doing some math and working the way elizabeth zimmermann meant for us to knit and doing some of the thinking for ourselves is really the way that she would accomplish that so i really highly recommend getting knitters the lace is available in the book as well as the twelve months of the year that she has planned projects for  you they're all very middle bold very appealing is probably one of the least expensive books that you'll ever find i think it's around eight dollars unless you have a coupon or they're having some sort of seo on