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IPCA Retreat Blog Round-Up

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ipcalogo1 The 2009 IPCA Retreat has come to a close, so let’s take a little tour of the write-ups in the blogosphere!

Kathi of Dragons Glass has this post full of the people who did demos throughout the retreat, and chocolate chip cheesecake!

Angela of Crafty Goat’s notes has this post from one of her days at the retreat, and here she has a wrap -up of her experiences!

There is also a Flickr group where people are sharing photos from the retreat, you can check that out here.

If you blog about your experiences at the retreat in the next week, use that “send us gossip” link at the top of the page so we can share your entry with our readers!

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Choose Your Own Brioche Knitting Adventure with this Shawl Knitting Pattern

If you’re looking for a fun project to play with brioche knitting, check out the My Buddy knitting pattern/recipe from Casuarinagirl on Ravelry. 

This project doesn’t include a brioche tutorial, so it’s good to know the basics, including how to increase and decrease, but you can always practice on a swatch before you start the project if you want. 

The design is meant to be flexible for the yarn you have and what size and shape of project you want to make, from a skinny neck scarf to a asymmetrical triangle or a more classic triangular shape. 

The shape you end up with will depend on how often you increase (and then decrease on the other side). The pattern mentions increasing every fourth, fifth or six row (and the one shown increases and decreases every sixth row) but you can do it even more or less often depending on the shape you’re looking for an how much yarn you want to use. 

You can work to whatever depth you would like, or use almost half of the yarn you have set aside for the project and begin decreasing. 

When it comes to yarn, she used three strands of yarn held together to make a super fluffy shawl, but you can work it with whatever yarn and needles you like to make a wrap that’s all your own. 

If you are new to brioche (or to increasing and decreasing in brioche) it might be a good idea to make a little scarf or head wrap first before diving in to the bigger pattern, just so you’re more comfortable with the technique. Or just give it a go; nothing about brioche knitting is that difficult. (But you might want to use a lifeline because I find brioche hard to rip out or fix mistakes in properly.)

You can grab the free pattern for the Buddy Wrap on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Casuarinagirl]