{"id":6123,"date":"2014-12-13T21:14:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T02:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillsyarn.wpengine.com\/?p=6123"},"modified":"2014-12-13T21:14:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T02:14:27","slug":"yokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/books\/yokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yokes."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yokes<\/em> is here!<\/p>\n

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Yokes<\/em> is writer and designer Kate Davies’ newest book, and one that we’ve been eagerly anticipating since October, when she started posting previews\u00a0on her blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been reading her blog for years now, admiring her patterns and appreciating her written voice.<\/p>\n

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An historian as well as a knitwear designer, Davies approaches her subject with academic rigor, and because of this, Yokes<\/em> is so much more than a collection of inspiring sweaters.<\/p>\n

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Pick up this book, and you’ll learn about Swedish Bohus yokes, the Icelandic lopapeysa, classic Shetland motifs, Elizabeth Zimmermann’s seamless innovations, and the connections between all of the above.<\/p>\n

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As a lover of circular yoke sweaters, particularly those adorned with colorwork, I was quick to add Yokes<\/em> to my own knitting library. I’ve been reading it before bed this week, savoring the text and photos. Davies speaks my mind when she writes, “I am happy spending days working away on acres of plain stockinette, if, at the end of it, there is the yoke’s delicious promise.”<\/p>\n

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I am knitting one such sweater right now, in fact: “Puffin Sweater,”<\/a> a design from Davies’\u00a0Colors of Shetland<\/em>. I’ve knit the body and one and a half sleeves, looking forward all the while to the colorful chevron yoke. (Almost there!)<\/p>\n

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Anne has fallen for a sweater from Yokes<\/em>, “Frost at Midnight.” This\u00a0beaded yoke is knit\u00a0in a delicate lace-weight yarn called\u00a0Fyberspates Scrumptious Lace, a shimmering blend of merino and silk, which, oh by the way, we now stock at the shop.<\/p>\n

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We have only a few shades in stock, but will happily order whichever color you’d like. Come by to see the colorcard!<\/p>\n

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Look for\u00a0Kate Davies’ Yokes<\/em> on the teacart in the front room.\u00a0It will make a perfect holiday gift for the history-loving\u00a0knitter in your life, and if that knitter happens to be you, send your nearest and dearest in for a copy. See you there!<\/p>\n

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Yokes is here! Yokes is writer and designer Kate Davies’ newest book, and one that we’ve been eagerly anticipating since October, when she started posting previews\u00a0on her blog. I’ve been reading her blog for years now, admiring her patterns and appreciating her written voice. An historian as well as a knitwear designer, Davies approaches her … [more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[39,56,257,41,256,78,48,103],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}