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A couple of weeks ago I was listening to the Electric Sheep podcast, and Katie inspired me to have a nosey around for slightly more tasteful festive patterns than, say, the one below modelled on a rather dapper Colin Firth.

Thanks to the magical www I can even show you how Katie's is coming along:

A subtle yet merry design which is infinitely more wearable (and less embarrassing) than a red nosed reindeer.

Down here in the Southern Hemisphere it tends to be a smidge warm to wear heavy fair isle jerseys for Christmas, but I'm going to share some ideas anyway. Why not?!

Trust Susan Crawford to come up with a novel pattern with style and class.

The Perfect Christmas Jumper (click on the image to go to the pattern)

If you were after something a little less full on, this would work just as well without all the motifs. In fact, all of the patterns in this post would be wonderful without the colour work.

Boreal by Kate Davies isn't quite so obviously Christmassy but has all the other traditional Scandinavian components - tree motifs, snowflakes,  colourwork, and worked from the top down. Her post about achieving the best results in heavier yarn colour work is worth a read as well.

Boreal by Kate Davies (click on the image to go to the pattern)

And because it so SO CUTE, here is one for the kidlets:

Reindeer pullover by Jill Wick (click on the image to go to the pattern)

How is your Christmas knitting going, now that we are only a few days away? Do you have any remote inclination to knit a festive jersey? I'm still not sure...

There are still 8 sleeps until the jolly red man arrives, which means we need to share our Christmas hours.

Open to 5pm 24 December

CLOSED 25 Dec – 11 January

Re-open Thursday 12 January

January hours:

Thursday: 10am – 9pm

Friday: 10am – 5pm

Saturday: 10am – 4pm

CLOSED Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed

Or by appointment organised in advance

Normal hours resume 1 February

If you are absolutely desperate, email tash(at)knitschyarns(dot)co(dot)nz to see if we can arrange an appointment for you.

This is the Bob Dylan song that won me over to his lyrical ways. Sitting in a lecture theatre at Victoria University, the American Literature paper lecturer played it on the projector - made this knitter a fan forever.

It's been mentioned before that I'm rather taken by Mr Ryan Gosling. And not alone in that fondness, by any means.

There are some fantastic sites around using the 'Hey Girl' meme to make our favourite blondie even more wonderful.

Top of my list: the feminist Ryan Gosling.

And, ommigoodnessiamgoingtoexplode - our leading man in a hand knit.

from F*yeahryangosling

Right. Back to work. Enjoy your Friday! xx Tash

Wheeee! I LOVED Fraggle Rock as a kid, and what a happy day it was to discover a knitting song!
Enjoy xx