Category: Knitting

Happy New Year Foxes!

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Happy-new-year

Hello everyone and happy 2013 to you all! Best wishes for health, prosperity and good times in the New Year. Some of you may be regulars to the blog and others are new this year following the great Ravelry giveaway of 2013.

For those who don’t know, I had a free pattern offer on Ravelry on New Year’s Day. I was off to late start, and I decided to carry through the 2nd. I’m completely floored by the incredible response from Ravelers and I am so excited that so many people were inspired by the patterns to try them out and drop me a line to say thanks. You all are the best!

And also if you don’t know, there’s a new group for The Red Fox and Gown on Ravelry. Following the momentum of New Year’s, I’ve set up a series of knit-a-longs (KALs). Join the group to share updates about your progress, photos and more. I have plenty of news to share as the year goes on, so it’s a great place hang to know what’s happening with The Red Fox and Gown.

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One of the exciting developments is the pending release of the Foxy Business Hat. It’s really soon, I promise! Thanks to all of the lovely test knitters who have done such an incredible job (and joining the group above may give you some insider leads if you want to test future RFG designs). Now I need to get through the last round of edits and she’ll be ready, no later than 15 January, promise.

Another new thing for a New Year… I’m steeling against my natural aversion to seeing myself on video or photos, but I will kick off a video blog (I’m sure there’s a much cooler name for it) this month for your entertainment and information. I’ll cover upcoming news and designs, RFG events, reviews, random stories and even bits of history about fibre. I hope you’ll stick around and join the fun.

Red Fox and Gown – Video Podcast 1. Introduction and where to find us on the web.

x Rena

Foxy Business Hat: Sneak Peek

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It’s been a productive week! I’ve fnished up the Foxy Business Hat this morning and here she is in a sneak peek. The alpaca fibre hat features cozy ear flaps and white pompoms at the end of the ear flap braids… you’ll have to wait to see those babies! But check out those lovely fox ears in the meantime! The hat will be coming soon to Ravelry and Etsy, I promise.

x Rena

Sheepish Ring

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Sheepish ring.

So you may have been wondering why the radio silence lately. I have been busy knitting up a storm with custom orders. And getting ready for the SFU Winter Craft Fair in Burnaby, BC at the end of the month. If you’re in the Vancouver area, please stop by The Red Fox and Gown booth at the SFU Burnaby campus from 27-30 November 2012 and say hello.

Star Slouch Hat in grey merino wool.

Cable knit smart phone cosy.

I’ve been knitting up our signature Star Slouch Hat in a variety of colours and fibres, fingerless gloves, phone cozies and rings. And preparing patterns to sell at the craft show too!

And I’ve had a lot of fun with the rings, let me tell you. I’ve been using Rain City Knit’s fingering weight merino wool in some of their lovely vivid colours to make up the rings. I have made our Sheepish Ring, heart rings, button rings and plain knit rings. More photos to come!

x Rena

A Little Update

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I was inspired today to do a bit of work on the site. I’ve added a proper domain name at last and also added a link to my knitting designs on Ravelry. I’ll continue to work on this space but I’m off to a good start, I think! I’d like to show each design and link to the Ravelry page with its immediate download following online purchase. And last but not least, a new banner is up with our fox and a couple of other goodies.

I headed out yesterday yarn hunting for my custom orders and visited Black Sheep Yarns in Port Moody, BC. I recommend visiting this shop – great selection and friendly and helpful staff. As you can imagine, my yarn hunt was successful.

Meanwhile, I’m also working on promised patterns for designs including my Kiki hat and Smart Phone Cozy, among others. As always, I have more designs up my sleeve that I can’t wait to tell you more about. Until then, I want to show you some yarn that I fell in love with yesterday, Madelinetosh’s Thunderstorm.

x Rena

Knit Cable Fingerless Gloves

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I have a new knitting design sample ready in time for autumn – knit cable fingerless gloves! I knit my sample using Diamond Luxury’s Lima Peruvian Highland Wool and it was absolutely lovely to work with. The gloves feature matching cables on both the back of the glove and palm, incorporating ribbing at the ends.

Cable fingerless gloves, palm view.

You can custom order a woolen pair for yourself or as a gift through The Red Fox and Gown’s Etsy shop. Pattern coming soon…!
What do you think?

x Rena

Kiki Ear Flap Hat with Pompom: Sneak Peek

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Kiki hat fresh off the needles.

It’s a cliche, but so true… the creative juices have been flowing lately, fired up by the autumnal weather and cool evenings. I had to make an earflap hat, with a big pompom on top and faux thrumming. Oh yes. And I’m so pleased with how it turned out. I even figured out how to do crochet for the edges.

 


The hat is so named for my kitty Kiki, who helped me pick out the wool for this project. She picked out her very own colours, smart girl.


I have a feeling this is one sample I’ll be wearing around this winter. Now that the obsessive knitting of the last couple days is over, I need to sit down and write up the pattern and send off to the technical editor. And then I promise I’ll post on Ravelry and Etsy.

What do you think? Am I the only sucker for ear flap hats?

x Rena

Part Two: Phone Cosies with Buttons!

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Kitty smart phone cosy, available here.

Smart phone cosy with red button with flowers, available here.

 

So I knit up a couple of phone cosies and test drove my new buttons! It was a great deal of fun picking out which button to go with which cosy. And there’s lots of choices. I haven’t even hit up the gingham or striped or polka dot fabric yet. I think the cosies look great with the covered buttons. Which one do you like?

The original cozy with matte grey half pearl button, available here.

x Rena

Buttons!

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My new crop of custom covered buttons.

I have a new addiction as of today – fabric covered buttons! I went to the fabric store to get some buttons for the new cabled phone cozies and for the upcoming mug cozy too. I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to cover buttons in fun fabrics… and so I did!

Kitty!

Bunny.

Lady bug / lady bird.

 

Fresh button crop.

I have a kitty cat, lady bug / lady bird, little flowers, rose and bunny so far! This is way too fun. I’ll post up a finished cozy very soon with a new covered button!

 
x Rena