Hands Occupied – Colorful knitting, crochet, latch hook and macrame from craft book author & designer Heidi Gustad.

Spiral Hill Sweater Vest is Here + Knit Along Details

September 27, 2023 Leave a Comment

Get the Spiral Hill Sweater Vest pattern, inspired by the new Nightmare Before Christmas knitting book from Tanis Gray and Insight Editions. Designed by Heidi Gustad.

As announced last month, I have a new intarsia pattern available called the Spiral Hill Sweater Vest, inspired by the Nightmare Before Christmas’ iconic landmark. You can find the vest pattern in the new book Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Official Knitting Guide to Halloween Town and Christmas Town. To celebrate this release, and help teach knitters more about intarsia colorwork, we are doing a knit along (KAL) from October 1-29. Read on for all of the knit along details.

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Learn how to knit a right lifted increase (RLI) and left lifted increase (LLI) in knitting, and why you might want to use them instead of a make 1 right (M1R) or make 1 left (M1L), depending on what you're knitting. Video tutorial and photo tutorial included.

Lifted Increases: How to Work RLI, LLI & When to Use Them

September 7, 2023

Learn how to knit a right lifted increase (RLI) and left lifted increase (LLI) in knitting, and why you might want to use them instead of a make 1 right (M1R) or make 1 left (M1L), depending on what you’re knitting. Video tutorial and photo tutorial included.

Coming this October: A knit along (KAL) featuring Heidi Gustad’s pattern from the new Nightmare Before Christmas knitting book from Tanis Gray and Insight Editions.

Nightmare Before Christmas Knit Along Coming This October!

August 11, 2023

Coming this October: A knit along (KAL) featuring Heidi Gustad’s pattern from the new ‘Disney Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas: The Official Knitting Guide to Halloween Town and Christmas Town’

Check out two newly published books for knitters. A picture book about a child learning to knit for her grandmother and a new knitting pattern book all about mosaic knitting are featured.

Summer Reading for Knitters

August 3, 2023

Check out two newly published books for knitters and enter to win a copy of each! A picture book about a child learning to knit for her grandmother and a new knitting pattern book all about mosaic knitting are featured.