WWW for Wednesday, July 22, 2009

by Melissa Gow, Editorial Assistant for Knitty.com

Is it too hot to knit where you are yet?

Berroco is looking for the next SOCK STAR! Is it you?

Speaking of contests, if you've EVER knit anything from a Knitty pattern and love taking pictures, you've got to enter the Knitty 2010 Calendar Contest! The grand prize is crazy big!

We've got two other contests going on at Knitty, too -- read more about them here! We want you to win stuff!

Our favorite long-distance blogging pair -- the Mason-Dixon girls, Kay and Ann, have just released Knitting Outside the Lines on audiobook!

UPDATE: Yarn Forward's plans to offer a digital version of the magazine has been temporarily put on hold while they search for a new service provider. Watch their website for updates.



Amy Butler has a line of hand bags designed with crafters in mind: Sweet Life Bags.



Lorna's Laces and WendyKnits have teamed up to create WendyKnits Sunrise colourway based on the sunrise photos Wendy often takes from her office window. Wendy has even come up with a sock pattern [pdf download] to showcase the colour changes.

Knitter Nigel Pottle walked and knit the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage route in Spain, back in May to raise funds and awareness for the Alzheimer Society of BC . His pilgrimage blog can be found here.

Namaste has expanded their Cali bag line with the new, classy Hermosa -- their largest bag yet, and it stands up on its own.

If you are living in or visiting Brooklyn, New York, you really should swing by SpaceCraft. It's a fabulous communal environment where you can learn all sorts of crafts in a community atmosphere.



Now that the sun is down and that nice lake breeze is making things cooler, I'm off to work on my current sweater!