Updates from the GAS Newsletter…Info You Should Know

Just got the new GAS newsletter in the mail so I thought I’d share some of the information they are providing in it in case you haven’t received yours. If you have any important glass information you’d like to share with the newsletter people you need to contact them by December 1st for the March 2010 issue. Email to [email protected]. I’m not listing everything in the newsletter in this post but will try to get it all out throughout the upcoming week or two.

First thing I’ll let you know about is an upcoming conference…The Midwest Glass Experience that’s being held at the Third Degree Glass Factory, February 12-14, 2010. For info contact [email protected]. I’ve posted about the Third DegreeGlass Factory in the past. This could definitely be a glass good time. There will be lectures and workshops…

Or how about a one or two month apprenticeship in Tuscany? Uh, yeah!! Check out www.glassisland.com to find out more information. This looks very interesting. If any of you do this please let me know so I can write about it!

And finally…for this post, Remarkable Glass is an upcoming show at Broadfield House Glass Museum c/o Contemporary Glass Society in England and they’re looking for artists. For more information on this show contact www.cgs.org.uk.

Hope this info helps inform you…

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When I knit socks (which sadly I have not done in a while; need to get a new pair on the needles soon!) I generally stick to pretty simple designs and colorwork that isn’t all that detailed.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a fancy sock, I’m also just pretty lazy and I figure a project worked on size 0 or 1 US needles is going to take a long time even without the added work of intricate colorwork, so why make it more complicated?

But there are definitely socks out there I’d be willing to make an exception for, and I think Tangled Bliss by Annette Schleicher may just be one of them.

If you can’t tell from looking, this is decidedly an advanced knitting pattern. There’s brioche for the cuffs, complex looking colorwork done with the ladderback jacquard technique, multiple charts, and colors changing everywhere.

There are links to tutorials for all the special skills in the pattern, but still it would help to have a handle on these concepts before you get started.

The pattern uses three colors of light fingering weight yarn at a whopping 31 stitches per 4 inches/10 cm (that’s 7.75 stitches per inch/2.5 cm).

Would you believe me if I told you that this pattern was designed for a speed knitting contest? Speed would be the last thing on my mind.

But again, I think all the work for these fancy socks would be worth it. I love hoe the colorwork looks like an old tile floor, and think of the bragging rights when you tell people you made them yourself. (Though of course you did; have you ever seen store-bought socks that look anything like this?)

Best of all, this pattern is available for free on Ravelry, so there’s no reason not to give it a try if you’ve got the skills. If you do, I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Annette Schleicher]

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