Mary Jane Mucklestone

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Gift-A-Long 2019

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I’m offering 25% off twenty of my patterns beginning Tuesday Nov 26th at 8pm EST through end of day Monday Dec 2nd!

It’s the Ravelry Indie Designers Gift-A-Long and I’m participating for the first time.

Visit my Ravelry designer page and click on the Gift-A-Long bundle.

Indie Designer Gift-A-Long 2019 is a multi-designer promotion that should help jump-start your gift making whether for the holidays or anticipating the year ahead.

Beginning at 8pm EST today, it’s a 5 week long KAL & CAL of making gifts using patterns designed by a giant list of participating designers. Starting today, hundreds of patterns are on sale for gift knitting and crocheting. It’s a great way to explore new-to-you designers. When I took a look it made me want to pick up my hook and do some crochet.

For my sale bundle, I chose 20 projects that would be fairly quick to knit, some at a large gauge and others small but interesting projects.

In the spirit of the season and for the fun of the Gift-A-Long this is the only time I’ll be offering such a big discount on my patterns.

Knitting in Peru

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Today sign ups begin for Knit Stars 4.0: Alpaca My Bag 🌟

It’s the world’s first and only, all-online, multi-star knitting (and crochet) festival! 🙌

  • Learn from some of the most skilled knit designers in the world with Knit Stars 4.0: Alpaca My Bag.
  • Featuring breathtaking videos from Peru, courses from 10 expert knitters and crocheters, and exclusive kits only available when you join the course.
  • Visit Manos del Uruguay in Uruguay.
  • Find out how here!

Those who know me know that I love traveling, especially when I’m traveling to learn new-to-me knitting techniques. I was lucky to visit Peru on a number of occasions where I learned so very much. This new season of Knit Stars should offer some great armchair travel for those of us hankering to visit themselves. I know I want a return visit, and since I can’t go anytime soon I’m looking forward to watching Knit Stars 4.0.

Above, images from my own past trips to Peru, learning from the masters.

You can also sign up for my Knit Stars Workshop from Knit Stars 3.0. I teach stranded knitting and what makes Fair Isle knitting special.

Sign up for Knit Stars 3.0  and all the other seasons!

Mary Jane Mucklestone Knit Stars 3.0

Stopover in Action and a KAL

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We’re taking the plunge! Stopover is having a Knit-A-Long!

The KAL will start on Wednesday September 16, 2015 with the official CO time at 12 AM wherever you are. The last day of the KAL will be December 31, 2015 since some people might use it for holiday knitting because it’s such a quick knit.

Signups continue throughout the KAL, right up until the end, I bet someone could knit one in a day!

I’m offering a discount! Use code StopoverKAL for 10% off until September 15, 2015, 11:59 PM Eastern time – that is just before the KAL starts in my time zone.

If you want to join in the fun, go to my Ravelry group Mary Jane Mucklestone and sign up on the ••Stopover KAL • signups thread. You can read all the details on that thread which is just for signups so we’ll have an easy list to see for drawings and prizes.

In fact, on the ••Stopover KAL – Talk About It is where we will announce prizes and drawings, and there is a drawing happening September 16, 3 skeins of Léttlopi, might be yours if you sign up before Wednesday September 16.

You’ll also find a ••Stopover KAL FO – No Chatter thread which is just what it says, eventually a gorgeous gallery of finished objects to admire and marvel at.

When I first made Stopover I was captured acting silly and leaping like a gazelle on the island of Unst by photographer Kathy Cadigan, who was making a more proper video for the release of my friend Gudrun Johnston’s book Shetland Trader 2. (Which you need to buy if you don’t already have it.)

Click on the video above for a glimpse of Unst behind my nutty self.

Oh! Speaking of Stopovers, beginning March 9 Icelandair will be flying to Aberdeen, where the planes and the boat departs for Shetland, so you can book an Iceland stopover before or after you visit Shetland!