I’ve just had another pattern published in the latest issue of Yarn Forward, issue no. 15.  I just love the color of this yarn (Rowan summer tweed) – ‘Mango’.  I had a hard time giving this top up to the magazine!  It is a little less fitted than a lot of styles I design and it was really easy to wear.  There are slits at the sides of the hem with small twisted stitches in the ribbing at the waist.  I can see this being a top that would get a lot of use in the summer evenings.

You can see a preview of this issue here.  For anyone who can’t easily get a hardcopy of the magazine I believe that the will have the digital version up again in the near future.  The last digital provider that they were using went under a few weeks ago.

I haven’t seen a copy of this magazine yet but I believe a photo tutorial of the crochet cast-on that I did for them was in this issue.  It’s one of my favorite provisional cast-ons.  It is easy to do and you can clearly see the stitches when you remove the crochet chain afterwards. (Plus as an added bonus all of your stitches are in the right direction!)

I have a pattern coming out in Issue 12 of Yarn Forward.  Now I realise that as my last post was of the Necco Wafer Hoodie that it must seem that I’ve been doing nothing but knitting for the last few weeks.  However this top was actually knitted last year so it has been with me for a while!  For anyone here in Ireland/UK/Europe this yarn is easily replaced with any DK (22 sts and 30 rows per 4 inches) cotton yarn.  This yarn was mercerized cotton, meaning it went through a chemical process making it hold the dye better.  It does tend to make for a shinier slightly stiffer yarn.  In fact I think Wendy ‘Supreme’ would be very similar.

For anyone who lives in Cork you can get Yarn Forward in Eason’s on Patrick’s Street – however you might want to wait a few days as I’m not sure if this issue is in yet.  I think that Kerrie Allman’s plant-dyed tank Brazilwood has me tempted to get knitting.  Unfortunately that is one of the downsides of spending most of your knitting time designing – you don’t really have much extra time left over for knitting all the other wonderful patterns out there.