Knitter of the Month
A monthly competition... prizes galore! Send in your projects, images and knitting stories to Aneeta @ KnittingSOS.co.uk Or use the contact form
May 2009
May's Knitter of the Month is Tori from Devon. She's been steadily working her way through Knitty Gritty and sending me photos of her interpretations of my patterns.
Some words from our winner...
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March and April 2009
Sorry about the lack of knitter of the month since February...I'm a little low on inspiration. So please send photos and knitting stories...I need to get my knitting-mojo going again!
February 2009
Feb's Knitter of the Month is Niki and her instant sock obsession!
Niki lives in my basement...ok...it's the downstairs flat, but I like to think of it as my basement 
She's a very creative lady who makes all sorts of imaginative and beautiful gifts for all her lucky friends. And now they are getting socks! After a taste of my sock-addiction over a neighbourly dinner, Niki instantly got the bug. And I'm very proud of her, as apart from a couple of boozy, late night Knitting SOS's, she managed to knit most of her first sock all by herself (guinea-pigging my sock pattern at the same time)...very impressive!
I think her prize must be more sock-inspiring yarn...!
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January 2009
January's Knitter of the Month is Gladys from Brazil!
Gladys has been in touch with me for several months and wanted to take some knitting classes whilst she visited her daughter for a few weeks this month in London. I was surprised and flattered that someone from so far would have heard of Knitting SOS; so I happily agreed to some private classes.
Gladys is a very creative lady. She makes beautiful sewn dolls clothed in pretty Liberty prints and finished to an extremely high standard. She can knit, but like so many knitters, was baffled by the sometimes incomprehensible language of 'knit.' Believe me...Brazilian Portuguese can be simpler!
Her wish was to learn to read knitting patterns so that she could add knitted toys to her repertoire, and knit clothes for her lady-dolls.
Luckily for me, not only was Gladys a good knitter, but also she somehow knitted English style (most South Americans knit Continental style due to the Spanish influence). She was also a really quick learner - sometimes teaching me the Brazilian word for knitting terms as we translated patterns!
I have to admit though...she was relentless! 8 classes in two weeks...sometimes making me get up for 9am knitting! I did threaten to teach in my pyjamas...but never carried out my threat ; )
All Gladys's hard work paid off. She really learned to understand and read knitting patterns...as our new friend 'Curzon' proves.
Prize: 2 skeins of Colinette Cadenza (cleverly hand painted, super soft yarn).
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December 2008
December's Knitter of the Month is Rachel M-T. Rachel's been knitting for years and came along to my Knitted Wire Jewellery course and my WI session for Christmas decorations. She took away all the info from those classes, brewed them up, and came up with....knitted wire Christmas decorations! I have to admit that I'm pretty impressed. Not only did Rachel invent the patterns herself, but she's the tidiest wire knitter I've ever seen. I'm not a big fan of perfectionists, but she certainly makes a good case for them! Only one complaint...Rachel didn't write down the pattern for her shimmery wire Christmas tree, and I want it! I'm going to have to convince her to make another so we can all learn them next year.
Prize: Sock yarn and needles.
Apologies for the dreadful photos...all my fault.
Ho Ho Ho!
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November 2008
Photo (of orthopedic shoes and knitting) coming soon.
November's Knitter of the Month is Charlie Tyfield (nee Kitchen). She got married in October, went for a 1 week honeymoon, then straight home to a horrid, double foot operation! A busy lady, Charlie often has to put knitting aside in favour of 12 hour work days, so she used her recuperation time wisely to finish a few of her ongoing knitting projects. Amongst them are: a shrug, a hat and Christmas decorations!
Prize: to be announced.
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October 2008
This month's winner is Harriot Lane Fox who wrote that lovely article about me in the Sunday Telegraph. See the Press page for the link to the article, and Harriot's knitting journey so far. I just want to say...she didn't write the article so I'd make her KofM...this is just my way of saying, thank you for saying nice things about me! That always deserves a reward! Also, her enthusiasm as a new-ish knitter spills out throughout her article to hopefully inspire lots more people to pick up knitting needles.
http://www.knittingsos.co.uk/files/Telegraph%202nd%20Nov%2008.pdf
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September 2008
This month's Knitter of the Month is Alex McLean from south London.
Alex knits once a year after seeing me at Dork Camp (long story, http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/index.php/DorkCamp08 ). Last year he knitted a pair of booties for his soon to be born son. And this year he started Project 4 from Knitty Gritty - the Zig Zag Scarf. After knitting one zig with me, he completed the rest of the scarf all by himself - which is quite impressive for someone who's only had two knitting classes.
Here's the handsome Harvey modelling the scarf made by 'Dadad.' (+611 reads)
Prize: 'some yarn to match my Missus's eye's please' was Alex's request. So I found a lovely hand painted chocolate yarn as his prize. Manos del Uruguay yarn in colour 2235.
August 2008
Knitting SOS's first Knitter of the Month!
Kylie Archer, 28, from Sydney, Australia.
Prize: a skein of HipKnit's fabulour hand dyed superwash merino DK.
Kylie's only been knitting since May 2008, but she's the fastest learner I've come across in years. And amazingly prolific, 'hmm, I like that, I think I'll knit it in 5 different colours and one for my mum!'Here she is wearing the Anthropologie Capelet. http://peonyknits.blogspot.com/2005/11/anthropologie-inspired-capelet-fo-and.html (316 views)
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