Black Dog

I’ve been asked to participate in a Blog Tour for a newly-released book called “Knit So Fine”, jointly authored by three great designers who are great people, too–Lisa R. Myers, Laura Grutzeck, and Carol Sulcoski. Lisa is the owner of Rosie’s Yarn Cellar in Philly as well as Fairmount Fibers, the US distributor for Manos del Uruguay yarns as well as having authored other knitting books and patterns. Laura Grutzeck has had patterns published in several very familiar compilation books, including “Stitch ‘N Bitch Nation” and Vogue’s “Ultimate Sock Book”. Carol Sulcoski is the art and brains behind Black Bunny Fibers and her blog always makes me laugh. Anything by this combination of smart women has GOT to be good–and the book does NOT disappoint (we’ve had it in the shop for a few weeks now and it was the subject for a weekly book review in the newsletter just last week).

Here’s a run down of who/what/where you will find the tour over the coming weeks:

Things kick off on June 2nd at The Fiber Forum with Andrea Lyn,


you’ll find a hot topic the next day (June 3rd) at RosieBlogs,


and the fun moves to Faina’s Knitting Mode on the 4th,


followed by Thursday’s post with Kat Coyle on the 5th (she wrote “Boho Baby Knits”!)


Friday the 6th it takes a spin through Lansing with LynnH at ColorJoy!


and a Saturday stop with Shannon Okey at KnitGrrl


and on Sunday, the week ends with Nautical Knitter.

Monday picks up again with Connie Chang, who I’m sure you recognize from all of her FAB patterns in recent issues of Interweave Knits.


Tuesday, the 10th we’re with Christi of Turtlegirl’s Bloggy Thing


Wednesday, the 11th, we’re HERE of all places……..and I’ll be talking with Lisa Myers about knitted skirts, Classic Elite Wool Bam Boo, and other things–DON’T MISS IT!


For the 12th, you’re off to The Fitter Knitter,


before heading off to see Veronik Avery for Friday the 13th!


Saturday brings us to The Unsinkable Franklin (hi darlin’!)


and the tour completes on Sunday at Woolbearers

Whew! that’s alotta runnin’ around the blogworld, but look at the varied and interesting and fun blogs you’ll visit while touring. I’ve found SEVERAL new sites to visit that are going to become favorites, I’m sure. The wealth of knowledge that’s out there in knitting-blogland is amazing, and better yet–we all share it for free and for the love of art and craft!

As for the tour, each stop will discuss projects from the book, various fibers used in the book (they’re all dk-weight and FINER! YES!), and the various designers and design concepts involved in the process. I think the sweater on the back cover would be STUNNING out of Colinette Jitterbug (sorry, couldn’t find a photo online). I’m thrilled and honored to be asked to join in and I look forward to my stop, which happens just a couple days after we return from the big trade show that kicks off next week. WOW! A busy June on tap, for sure. See you here……often!

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