A product tests giveaway from SOAK! US ONLY

Jacqueline from Soak sent me out some samples and large bottle of one of their limited edition of SOAK to giveaway to one of you felters. Soak™ the stuff you care about most. Keep the fibers you love looking great with Soak. The hat I just knitted (pictured) was felted using one of the samples of Soak that I received. It smells wonderful and you only need a small amount for your felting. You don’t have to be overly concerned about rinsing do to the gentleness of this product. If you would like to give this product a test run and report back to me and Soak how you like it as a felting aid, just type “I’ll try it” in the comment area! This promotion will run from May 13th through May 20th.

Launched in Canada in 2005, Soak enjoyed immediate success with everyone from knitters to quilters to fashion-conscious clothing shoppers. Over the next couple of years, we grew in the knitting and quilting markets in the United States and around the world. In 2007 we launched into the apparel and lingerie markets. Now, Soak can be found in Boutiques and Department Stores (intimate apparel sections) around the World. Our manufacturing is top-notch, and we supply all sizes of retail stores, including some of the world’s most prestigious boutiques.

About Soak

Design team Principal Jacqueline Sava heads up a talented team of designers, knitters, product developers and marketers. The company also partners with an extensive network of like-minded individuals, in order to offer a complete range of product development services.

Soak is a company inspired by Jacq’s Hats, an award-winning knit accessories business. We got started when we developed soak, a product that gave Jacq’s Hats’ customers a great new way to take care of their wool hats, scarves and sweaters.

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If you’re looking for a sweater knitting pattern that uses up some of your stash and allows you to make just the sweater you want, the Marlina Rib by Shay Johson might be just the thing.

It’s worked with two strands of fingering weight yarn held together to make a DK weight gauge, so you can use the same two yarns throughout or change one or both regularly for an even more colorful look.

The pattern has options to make it either a crewneck or a henley style with buttons, tapered or relaxed sleeves, and a straight hemline or a split hem with buttons (which sounds so cute if you do the henley with split hem and match the buttons on both parts).

It’s also knit from the top down so you can make the body and the sleeves as long as you want. There are 10 sizes available in the pattern, with a chest circumference ranging from 32 to 68 inches, or 81.5 to 172.5 cm. It’s meant to be worn with 4-6 inches/10-15 cm of positive ease at the chest.

The pattern page on Ravelry includes tons of measurements and yardage estimates so you can make sure you’ll get a good fit for your body before you even buy the pattern. Shay also shows a few variations of the sweater so you can see how different options look before you decide how you want to put them together.

The stitch pattern is 1×2 ribbing, which is really easy to do and gives a look almost like fisherman’s rib that’s relaxed and easy to wear.

This sweater looks like a great option for people who are somewhat new to sweater knitting or those who love to have lots of customization options (because it’s like getting multiple sweater patterns in one!).

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern for yourself at Ravelry.

[Photo: Shay Johnson]

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