Spinning Alpaca Yarns- Joan's Fiber Arts Blog

I love knitting for the holidays. It’s hard to believe Valentine’s Day is almost here and January is over. I went on a search for free Valentine Knitting Patterns and found all sorts of cute ones that I wanted to share.  The Valentine Pattern pictured at the right is from KnitOnePearlToo at BlogSpot.

Patterns with Hearts

Knitting Pattern Central – Patterns with hearts.

Ravelry.com -  Has no less than 184 free Valentine knitting patterns which include rings, hats, Teddy bears, scarves and all sorts of patterns with hearts. Ravelry requires registering but it’s free.

Nice list of heart knitting patterns on Squidoo

All Free Knitting offers a free ebook for instant download with 9 knitted heart patterns. There is a beautiful Ruby Knitted Throw pattern included.

This is just the tip of the knitting iceburg if you’d like to create something to celebrate Valentine’s Day. These are just some of my own favorites.

Coming Soon – My new knitting resource ebook! If you’re interested in receiving more information and updates about getting a free copy of my new ebook, The Best of Spinning Alpaca Yarns, please just drop me an email on the contact form or reply to this blog posting and I’ll let you know when the free download is available.

One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2013 is to post more here on Spinning Alpaca Yarns. In 2012, I had several other projects that I had to finish but this coming year, I want to get back to fiber arts and creating things. Mlan for this year is to finish some shawls on my triangle loom and also the tapestry I started on my rigid heddle loom. Recently, too, I signed up for Susan Sorrel’s Fiber Collage Workshop…

Knitting for baby has something for everyone, the beginning knitter to the more experienced knitter, with patterns from booties to toys. If you have grandchildren coming along, like I do, or if you’re a young mother with friends who are having babies, Knitting for Babies by Melanie Falick and Kristen Nicholas would be a wonderful addition to your knitting library.

It’s no wonder this knitting book is considered by some to be a classic already. Whether its patterns or tips on making the perfect cup of tea or cocoa, or finding out how to massage your hands when they ache from all that knitting, Weekend Knitting is easy to read, delightfully entertaining and full of luscious patterns, it would make a great addition to your knitting library.

I finally figured out the triangle loom weave and nearly finished my first shawl. Also, my adoption of Ricky the rescue kitty didn’t work out but I did find him another great home.

New book on beaded crocheted jewelry and update on my rescue kitty. Photos of crocheted jewelry I’ve made and photos of my newest rescue kitty, who is slowly learning to fit in.

My triangle loom is finished! My ridid heddle loom is warped and the mountain scenery is starting to show up in the weaving and my kitty menagerie is slowly, slowly starting to mesh.

When I used to weave years ago, I didn’t have cats! Now I have three, one a newly rescued kitty I got just last week. Now this cat craves attention but he has been really good with my loom so far-I just don’t tempt him by leaving it out if I’m not around. My husband [...]

See the progress on my triangle loom, which is nearly finished. I’ve also started weaving a tapestry on my table top loom as well.