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Win a Ticket to Vogue Knitting Live!

September 23, 2015 3 Comments

Win a ticket to Vogue Knitting Live Chicago!

I’ve got one of my favorite annual treats for you guys today! Weekend after next, Vogue Knitting Live is coming to my town, Chicago. To celebrate, you can enter today to win a free ticket to the event’s marketplace. VKL travels around the country to a number of cities, and it features amazing classes from celebrated knitwear designers, a marketplace of knitting and yarn vendors, and more fun events. Plus, it takes place at one of my favorite downtown Chicago hotels, the Palmer House Hilton. The hotel has a huge lobby that fills with tons of knitters during VKL each year, chatting and hanging out with knitting friends. It’s really a pretty cool sight to behold!

Myself, I’m taking an intarsia colorwork class (you can never take too many knitting classes as far as I’m concerned), and I’ll be checking out vendors when I’m not knitting away in the lobby bar. Sound fun? Enter here for a chance to win a ticket.

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If you’re reading this post in a feed reader, you’ll have to visit the blog itself to enter. This giveaway was brought to you by Soho Publishing. 

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Heidi Gustad is a craft book author & content creator in love with primary colors & vintage vibes. She specializes in knitting, crochet, latch hook and macramé, and her first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is out now!

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  1. Rebecca Epp

    September 23, 2015 at 12:03 pm

    Awesome opportunity! It’s on my bucket list to go to one of the VKL, so this would be awesome!

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  2. Amanda Zagloba

    September 24, 2015 at 7:34 am

    I missed this last year and made a note to try to get off work for it this year and I forgot again! At least I can go on Sunday. I’m thinking of the intarsia class also but I’ve been meaning to learn continental style and finally trying my hand at a sweater so those classes are on my radar also.

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  3. Stefanie

    September 24, 2015 at 9:31 am

    I’m excited to check out the marketplace and other events at VK Live this year!

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Pictured is the wrong side of a large primary color intarsia swatch I knit for an upcoming design in @brooklyntweed Arbor. When I pulled it from my studio, I thanked my former self for talking the time to knit, weave in ends, & block a clean swatch already. As critical as they are, I’m excited to not have to make one today. I’ll advocate for swatching all day long, but I won’t pretend it’s like the funnest step in the process! 😆🧶
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Today’s knitting vocabulary words: deadline isla Today’s knitting vocabulary words: deadline island & intarsia lock. Have you run across these terms before? 
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