Color blocking with Kathleen Dames (and Victoria Beckham)

Yesterday's Victoria Beckham show for NYFW included a little something that looks awfully familiar...

Victoria Beckham: Fall 2016, Look 9

Color-blocked cuffs, matching collar, navy body, orange contrast. Does that look like anything you might already know?

Kathleen Dames: June 2013, Bloc Pulli

Oh, hello, Bloc Pulli. You're looking as sharp as when I designed and knit you during Hurricane Sandy. You've got fun-to-knit long cuffs shaped with short rows, a sideways-knit collar that's stretchy and adds a pop of color up top, and in the entire garment you only have to purl three half-rows, so you're just one big, fabulous knit-knit-knit. (Personally, I wouldn't want to knit a sweater entirely in ribbing these days, but that may just be me.)

Guess color blocking is still a fashionable thing. Do you think my Bloc Party cardigan will show up in a collection next Spring?

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Last summer I experienced another facet of the Intellectual Property dodecahedron when someone was selling a copy of my pattern for An Aran for Frederick on Etsy. That was a pretty clear case, and Etsy responded almost immediately by taking the pattern down.

In this instance Ms. Beckham's Look 9 would be deemed nothing more than a coincidence, since, unlike Mati Ventrillon's experience with the house of Chanel, VB's design team have not visited my atelier (i.e. my desk in the corner of the dining room/book and yarn stash storage next to the washer-dryer/filming studio in our bedroom) ... ever.

So, what should I do? Not much, actually, except enjoy the fact that a design similar to mine stomped the catwalk at NYFW yesterday. I do think my design is more fun to knit, though ;)

Thanks for stopping by, and happy knitting!
xoxo,

P.S. Guess my next pattern in the upgrade queue should be Bloc Pulli, eh?

A real live FO for #FOFriday: my sample of the wedding cardi #knitscope

from kathleendames's Collection on Katch https://ktch.tv/78Jh
via IFTTT

s01 ep06 : the body (again) | the sweater with kathleen dames {iTunes}

Show Notes
Questions about Episode Six? Visit the Ravelry thread to see if your question has already been answered: http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/kathleen-dames-design/3373497/

Going on a #buttonhunt? Some of my favorite resources include:

• Some of my favorite buttons on Etsy
• Etsy button search
• M&J Trimming
• Mood Fabrics
• Your LYS (or favorite online yarn store)

Share your project on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter with hashtags #kdsweater and #solsticecardi.

Happy knitting!
xoxo, Kathleen

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Kathleen’s yarn is Camelot in the Orkney colorway from Round Table Yarns
Buttons from Remembrances Pottery on Etsy
Tech editing by Corrina Ferguson/Picnic Knits
Tara Swiger helps small, creative business owners (like me!)

Visit kathleendames.com/thesweater to sign up for the newsletter and get your free Solstice Cardi pattern*

*Free pattern available until 25 March 2016. After that date Solstice Cardi will be available for purchase from my Ravelry shop
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instagram
twitter
ravelry
facebook
music: Cafe Parisien with accordion iStock.com/frobisher

Kathleen is wearing Benwick. Pattern available at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/benwick

Lady Jane is wearing the original sample for Solstice Cardi in Julie Asselin's Stella yarn in the Diamant colorway

s01 ep6 : the body (again) | the sweater with kathleen dames

Questions about Episode Six? Visit the Ravelry thread to see if your question has already been answered: http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/kathleen-dames-design/3373497/

Going on a #buttonhunt? Some of my favorite resources include:

-Some of my favorite buttons on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/people/kathleendames/favorites/buttons

-Etsy button search https://www.etsy.com/c/craft-supplies-and-tools/sewing-and-needlecraft-supplies/buttons-and-fasteners/buttons

-M&J Trimming http://www.mjtrim.com/

-Mood Fabrics http://www.moodfabrics.com/buttons.html

-Your LYS (or favorite online yarn store) https://www.jimmybeanswool.com/secure-html/onlineec/advancedProductSearch.asp?pcID=24

Share your project on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter with hashtags #kdsweater and #solsticecardi.

Happy knitting!

xoxo, Kathleen
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Kathleen’s yarn is Camelot in the Orkney colorway from Round Table Yarns http://www.roundtableyarns.com

Buttons from Remembrances Pottery on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/RemembrancesPottery

Tech editing by Corrina Ferguson/Picnic Knits http://picnicknits.com/

Tara Swiger helps small, creative business owners (like me!) https://taraswiger.com/

Visit http://www.kathleendames.com/thesweater to sign up for the newsletter and get your free Solstice Cardi pattern*

*Free pattern available until 25 March 2016. After that date Solstice Cardi will be available for purchase from my Ravelry shop: http://www.ravelry.com/stores/kathleen-dames-design
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periscope: https://www.periscope.tv/kathleendames
instagram: https://instagram.com/kathleendames/
twitter: https://twitter.com/kathleendames
ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/designers/kathleen-dames
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KathleenDamesDesign
music: Cafe Parisien with accordion iStock.com/frobisher

Kathleen is wearing Benwick. Pattern available at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/benwick

Lady Jane is wearing the original sample for Solstice Cardi in Julie Asselin's Stella yarn in the Diamant colorway http://www.julie-asselin.com/en/yarns/

Check out this episode!

Episode 6 | The Body (again) {YouTube}

Show Notes

Questions about Episode Six? Visit the Ravelry thread to see if your question has already been answered: http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/kathleen-dames-design/3373497/

Going on a #buttonhunt? Some of my favorite resources include:

• Some of my favorite buttons on Etsy
• Etsy button search
• M&J Trimming
• Mood Fabrics
• Your LYS (or favorite online yarn store)

Share your project on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter with hashtags #kdsweater and #solsticecardi.

Happy knitting!
xoxo,

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Kathleen’s yarn is Camelot in the Orkney colorway from Round Table Yarns
Buttons from Remembrances Pottery on Etsy
Tech editing by Corrina Ferguson/Picnic Knits
Tara Swiger helps small, creative business owners (like me!)


Visit kathleendames.com/thesweater to sign up for the newsletter and get your free Solstice Cardi pattern*

*Free pattern available until 25 March 2016. After that date Solstice Cardi will be available for purchase from my Ravelry shop
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periscope
instagram
twitter
ravelry
facebook
music: Cafe Parisien with accordion iStock.com/frobisher

Kathleen is wearing Benwick. Pattern available at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/benwick

Lady Jane is wearing the original sample for Solstice Cardi in Julie Asselin's Stella yarn in the Diamant colorway

Let's seam up a sleeve with mattress stitch today. #knitscope with @kathleendames

from kathleendames's Collection on Katch https://ktch.tv/76y2
via IFTTT

Pattern: Benwick

Benwick on Ravelry $8 (no account necessary)

To celebrate the publication of Benwick (and Valentine's Day), use code persuasion2016 at checkout to receive 20% off this pattern, as well as my favorite Persuasion-inspired patterns, A Vest for Charles, An Aran for Anne, and An Aran for Frederick, from 11-14 February 2016.

[Captain Benwick] had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody. 

—Chapter 18, Persuasion, Jane Austen

Louisa Musgrove takes the air on the Cobb. She has finally recovered from her interesting illness and is escorted, of course, by Captain Benwick. A passing breeze gives our invalid a chill. Our gallant captain wraps his coat around her shoulders. How very interesting she is! And how ready to fall in love is he!

Far from an exact replica of naval dress, this cardigan nods to Royal Navy uniforms with it's epaulet-like braids and clean front closure. It is also trimmed with matching braids at the collar, cuffs, and hem. In a nod to all the love Captain Benwick has to give, there is a heart on the sleeve.

Feel like the heroine in your own novel!

What you'll love about knitting Benwick:

• Seamless saddle-shoulder construction is so much fun to knit - you'll feel so clever using the specified decreases to set in the sleeve and make a saddle for each shoulder
• Matching braid at collar, cuffs, hem, cardigan fronts, and epaulets are delighfully matchy-matchy and a good excuse to practice cabling without a cable needle
• Who doesn't want to knit a heart on their sleeve? This one makes clever use of increases to make a lovely heart
• Finishing work is modest: seam up the sleeves (or work them in the round if your gauge is similar working flat vs. in the round), weave together the underarms, and sew on those hooks and eyes

What you'll love about wearing Benwick:

• You've got your heart on your sleeve!
• Matchy-matchy cables makes everything look sharp
• Hook-and-eye front closures are crisp and elegant

Size/Finished Measurements
32 (34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44) inches bust circumference, closed. Shown in size 36-inch with two inches negative ease

Materials

• Seven Sisters Arts Nova (100% Bluefaced Leicester; 200 yds [183 m]/4 oz [113 g]): cobalt, 5 (6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8) skeins {approx. 900 (950, 1050, 1150, 1200, 1300, 1400 yds}
• Size 6 (4 mm): 29-inch circular (cir) needle (ndl)
• Markers (m)
• Cable needle (cn)
• Removable stitch markers (rm)
• Stitch holders or waste yarn
• Tapestry needle
• 7 hook-and-eye sets, sharp-point sewing needle, and matching thread

Gauge
20 stitches x 30 rows = 4 inches square in Stockinette St.

Skills Needed

• casting on
• binding off
• knitting
• purling
• increasing
• decreasing
• working stitches out of order (otherwise known as cabling)
• following charts

Thanks!
Previously published in: Jane Austen Knits, Fall 2013
Photography: Angela Lee

Everything you need to create your own beautiful Benwick is provided in the professionally designed (by me!) pattern.



Thanks for stopping by, and happy knitting!
xoxo,