The next installment of the Amigurumi eyes series of posts will appear this weekend. And since I am talking about it, I need your help… Does anyone have any good online resources for plastic eyes? Leave me a comment or drop me an email if you would like to add any links to my (as yet unfinished) compiliation.

Of course this project relies on volunteers to knit swatches from the book and submit photos, and we need more volunteers! Hence the bribes…er… prizes. I am the moderator for the “Mosaic Knitting” book, perhaps the least common of the Barbara Walker books. I spent soe time concocting a spreadsheet that tell s me all the geeky stats about the completion status of the swatches for that book. Sadly, it boils down to only 4 completed swatches, 3 by me.

So I am sponsoring a special prize that will be awarded to a randomly chosen Mosaic Knitting swatcher during the month of April. A cute little set of stitch markers!

If you would like to contribute, drop us a note at walkertreasuryproject @ gmail. com

I finished a swatch for the Treasury Project. I am currently the moderator and sole contributor to the Mosaic Knitting Section. Doesn’t this swatch make you want to participate?

obligatory reverse side photo

I bet your library has the book…. Or you could get it at amazon….. Isn’t there that one chick at your knitting circle that has every knitting book known to man? You should borrow it from her.

Even though I have knit swatches of “mosaic” patterns from some of the earlier treasuries, I didn’t really catch on. These aren’t your average two color fair isle/intarsia swatch… Every one can be knit in garter or stockinette stitch. I think all of the photos in the Mosaic knittign book are of garter stitch swatches. The technique uses only one strand of yarn (one color at a time) for two rows, and stitches for the other color are slipped from the previous rows. This makes a really nice fabric, but I have to confess that it is not conducive to inattentive knitting.

The goal of the project is to collect, in one place, color photographs of all of the stitch patterns represented in Barbara Walker’s Treasury books. Volunteers knit swatches and photograph them, posting the photos to the webpage (there’s also a flickr group). The patterns will not be published on the webpage since they are protected by copyright. It will be an awesome resource for all of us! I thought this was the most fantastic thing I heard in a long time, so I also volunteered to be a moderator. The first four treasuries were already spoken for, so I will be keeping track of the so-called “fifth” treasury, Mosaic Knitting. It is a collection of two-color stitch patterns that have the potential to look fantastic!! If anyone signs up for any of the patterns, that is. so far I have no participants for this book other than myself. Anyone out there own a copy? want to help us out?

Treasuries I own

If you have access to any of the Barbara Walker Treasury of Knitting Pattern books and would like to participate, send an email to walkertreasuryprojectATgmail com. Use the title of the book you are using as the subject, and include the pattern name in the body of the email. Each one will only be claimed once, so email early if you have a favorite. Also be sure to stop by the webpage and read the details of participation…