5 Olympic Washcloth Patterns to Keep You in the Olympic Spirit: This Week in Stitches NewStitchaDay.com

This week in stitches features…

5 Olympic Washcloth Patterns to Keep You in the Olympic Spirit!
The Subscriber of the Week
Class Announcements
and all of this week’s stitches

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We’ve been excited for the stuff going on here at NSAD and we’ve got lots of great things planned for the rest of the summer. Including today’s big announcement. We had a great family vacation a couple weeks ago and are glad to be back putting together awesome content for you every day.

Don’t forget to answer our question of the week at the bottom of this post!

Welcome to Our New Email Subscribers

We had amazing week with 475 people coming on board the New Stitch a Day email list! Great job to all of you who are telling your friends about the site on Twitter, Facebook, Ravelry, Knitting Paradise, Pinterest, and at your local yarn stores. Keep up the good work!

LIVE Class Registration Is Now Open!!!

I’m incredibly excited to announce that our first round of LIVE classes is opening up registration TODAY!

Our Virtual Focus Group gave us a ton of feedback about the types of classes you would like to see. Almost 100 different topics were suggested for classes and we’ve whittled those down to a few top choices.

Over the weekend they voted for their favorite classes and here’s what they came up with:

The Ultimate Guide to Knitting Cast Ons (Part 1)

The Ultimate Guide to Knitting Bind Offs (Part 1)

How to Knit Entrelac for Beginners

How to Knit Fair Isle Colorwork for Beginners

How to Crochet for Beginners (Part 1)

How to Read Crochet Charts for Beginners

How to Seam Crochet Granny Squares (coming soon)

How to Crochet Amigurumi Toys for Beginners (coming soon)

You can click on any of the above links to find our more about each class and register for your favorites.

If you would like to get a FREE class called “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Yarn, But Were Afraid to Ask” you can sign up for our Virtual Focus Group. All we ask is for your feedback from time to time. You’ll also get to help vote for future classes, participate in brain storming sessions, and even test out top secret features we plan on adding to the site. Click Here to Join!

Show and Tell!

I got a lot of photos from people of their projects so let me share them with you. (Click the images for a larger version)

@jjj1188 Frist Slipper Socks (1)
@Maggie656 Tunisian Stitch for Baby Blanket (2)
Irene Dyrynda Special Care Nursery project (3)
Irene Dyrynda Special Care Nursery project (3)
Irene Dyrynda Special Care Nursery project (3)
Leslie Thais Cable Blanket (4)
Leslie Thais Cable Blanket (4)
Leslie Thais Cable Blanket (4)
Leslie Thais Cable Bracelet
Linda bear (5)
Linda bear (5)
Cynthis Phua Mittens (6)
Louise Bayer Cloches (7)
Louise Bayer Scarves (7)
Louise Bayer Shawl (7)
Annika Godfrey Kitten (8)

1. @jjj1188 working on her first slipper socks.

2. @Maggie656 making a square using the tunisian stitch to make a baby blanket.

3. Irene Dyrynda has knitted projects for special care nursery.

4. Leslie Thais knitted a cable blanket and a nice cable bracelet to hold needle hook

5. Linda made cute bears and says that with every one she makes she gets more ideas for others.

6. Cynthia Phua made some cute baby mittens.

7. Louise Bayer has some cool cloches and ruffle scarves, plus a beautiful shawl.

8. Annika Godfrey made a knitted kitten for her two year old son.

Subscriber of the Week

This week’s subscriber of the week is Dorothy from Australia.

Dorothy made a cardigan for her granddaughter using 4 of our tutorials, the whelk stitch, the wrap and turn short row, the I-cord bind off, 3 needle bind off

I am really amazed how Dorothy used all of these different techniques to create this one of a kind cardigan for her granddaughter and new she needed to be the subscriber of the week.

Please congratulate Dorothy in the comments!

If you want to be considered for the subscriber of the week, send some photos of your work to johnny[at]newstitchaday[dot]com or respond to any of our newsletters.

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