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I don't know about you guys, but mid-Summer knitting for me always involves a hat or two. it gives me a jump on my holiday gifts, gets a few skeins out of stash, and makes for a small lap project I can bring wherever I go. (Which, these days, is admittedly not that far, but I still prefer portability!) Anyways, if you have been here for a bit, you already know how much I love my  Magpie Fibers Nest , and I had these two gorgeous blue skeins sitting on the shelf just waiting for me.  I had also been wanting to play with some of the beautiful cables in Norah Gaughan's Knitted Cable Sourcebook  , so I picked up the yarn and opened the book and after a few days of drawings and swatches, I made these two Night Caps ! Both hats feature modified versions of the same slanted cable - and each one has details that lend themselves a little differently to the idea. I played with placement of the cables, customized the crown shaping for each repeat, ...

Introducing New York Sour, a new sweater pattern designed to showcase the beautiful heather and varied colors of J ill Draper's new Ansel yarn , a fingering weight superfine merino, dyed in varied shades over the different natural colors of the fiber. The overdye creates a subtle series of options in each color that's just beautiful! And the fiber is so soft and lofty and simply stunning, that of course I could not choose only one color. The allover texture of the pullover really allows the yarn to shine, and results in a light and airy fabric that's just perfect for warm weather layering when knit on a mid-size needle (I've used a US#6 in this design. I've also added a few details here and there to ensure that all the transitions are neat and that finishing will be easy, but overall this is quite a simple knit, perfect for TV or the otherwise distracted knitting we all seem to be doing these days. New York Sour is intended to feature as many colors of yarn as yo...