Empress Woo question

Hi!

Was wondering if there is someone out there that can help me..

I like the new Robyn Pandolph fabricline called Empress Woo. I have orderd a charmpack from the fatquatershop to see the colors but also to see how big the focuspicture of the empress is. But I have gotten 5" pieces with nothing of the the empress on it just a cut off head.

Can somebody tell me how big the empress is? And also the repeat of the fabric? I would like to cut her out (around her) as a square and then put a borders around these squares, to make a quilt for my niece. But I have no idea how much fabric I need to order to be able to cut out several empresses..

Help please?!

Thank you
Barbara

Different ways to knit

Hi,

Some of you wanted to know the differences in knitting, since my last post.
If you go to this great site: knittinghelp.com you can see different videos showing different
techniques adjusted to the way you knit. I knit what they call the English way and I think people in the US do too. In Sweden they knit the continental way. It means that you have the yarn in either you left or you right hand. In some patterns/techniques this "turns" your stitches from the other way to do it.

It is a bit confusing but watch a movie and you can see the difference.

So when I leaned the lace knitting, I had to put my yarn in the opposite direction around the needle of what the teatcher did.

I have a lot to do at the moment before Christmas, but tonight I am going to a Lucia concert in church. Lucia is a saint, and we celebrate the turning of the year (midwinter) so that lighter days are coming.

I am working on my triangles for the Ocean waves, and I apologize to everybody who knew that triangles on a roll was a good way to do it, and I was to stubborn to listen.. :-)))) I was against it first..was not looking forward to taking of all that paper, but it is a super way to do it!

I will post something better again soon...promise...

Knitting

Last week I had to spend 5 days in Stockholm. Before I left home I checked out some shops nearby to visit during the evening, so I would have something to do and came across: Marias knittingshop

I saw on her website that she gave private knittingclasses as well, so I called her and booked one together with Weronica who came over to spend an evening with me in Stockholm. I only knew how to knit very basic stuff so she learned us how to do lace knitting. She was very nice and did a great job on making some samples for us and giving us additional information for next projects!. I knit the american way. People here in Sweden knit differently so I had to adjust a bit to see how I had to do it, but Maria was a great help. This is the test piece we made there:

This is what I took home with me:

At home I started working with the pink yarn, but it was so thin I couldn't really get a pattern in it:

So I started again with the red yarn I got from Cathi, this is what it looks like now, it is going to be a scarf...so I have some knitting left to do!...:-)))

So if you are ever in Stockholm, visit Maria!